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Scrummy the Gnome Warlock attends the Wizards of the Coast introduction to a new Dungeons & Dragons storyline in Los Angeles in June 2018. (Jordan Strauss/AP Images for Dungeons & Dragons)

Social media can be understood as a role‑playing game like Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeon & Dragon’s expansion over the last 50 years was driven by digital social networks in the same way that the evolution of digital social networks was driven by D&D.
According to the European Commission’s Report on the state of the Digital Decade 2023, “the EU relies on foreign countries for over 80% of digital products”. In this photo, Anne Le Henanff (R), France’s minister delegate for artificial intelligence, addresses a press conference along with Karsten Wildberger (L), Germany’s minister for digitalisation and state modernisation, at the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty in Berlin on November 18, 2025. John MacDougall/AFP

‘Digital sovereignty’: why the EU may be shifting from internet regulation to building homegrown tech

A summit on the future of the European digital sector comes after a shift in how Brussels sees its role.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau checks his phone at the United Nations general assembly in New York in September 2022. Politicians face a deluge of online abuse, prompting some to block people from seeing their social media accounts. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Should Canadian politicians be allowed to block their constituents on social media?

Social media platforms serve as modern public forums where democratic debates take place.

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