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Corporate and political actors know more about how our minds work than we do. The right to free thought can no longer be our ‘forgotten freedom’
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Nine years after the attacks, a look back at why the hashtag was so successful.
Social media can make us buy products we don’t want, new research shows.
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New research shows that scrolling through Instagram can effect our processing and language capabilities. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Disinformation campaigns use emotional and rhetorical tricks to try to get you to share propaganda and falsehoods.
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Disinformation campaigns often use a set of rhetorical devices that you can learn to spot, like conspiracy narratives, good versus evil framing, and revealed secrets.
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Research explains how to handle the kind of online ‘firestorm’ that X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk is currently experiencing.
Posting a hateful message online can have a lot to do with how like-minded bigots will respond.
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Hate is for the haters. Much of the thrill of posting toxic messages can come from the attention and social approval a poster gets from like-minded people.
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Social media platforms are abandoning news – which is bad news for traditional media organisations that have come to rely on them for consumers.
Citizens have sometimes been surprised to find public officials blocking people from viewing their social media feeds.
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The Supreme Court will hear five cases this term that will examine the nature of online discussion spaces run by social media platforms.
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Deceptive content on social media is being monetised by digital platforms, advertisers, and influencers
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Our study found abstaining from social media led to a reduction in positive emotions.
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The chatbot has been released to a small group of testers and some of X’s Premium+ subscribers – many of them have shared their initial thoughts.
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Even people with years of relevant training can’t always tell whether social content is evidence-based and trustworthy. We need a better approach for communicating research.
There are some practical ways to filter the amount of violent and graphic content you see on social media.
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Whatever approach you take to managing your feeds, remain cautious and sceptical.
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Some see Elon Musk as an idiot savant; others think of him simply as an idiot. How did an unelected citizen come to wield such power?
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Algorithms have been blamed for dividing society. What if they could support social cohesion instead?
X CEO Elon Musk has argued that his social media platform allows users to ‘be their true selves.’
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With identity the most lucrative commodity social media platforms trade in, their fetishization of authenticity remains ironclad.
Content moderators like these workers make decisions about online communities based on company dictates.
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In the days of online bulletin board systems, community members decided what was acceptable. Reviving that approach to content moderation offers Big Tech a path to legitimacy as public spaces.
Turning around the platform is a Musk.
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It’s a year since Elon Musk took charge of Twitter. His plan for charging new customers looks like another mis-step.
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Social media is a lifeline for community radio, helping it grow by being shaped by young listeners.
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The platform formerly known as Twitter faces a A$610,500 penalty from the eSafety Commissioner.