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Online platforms like Reddit and Wattpad let writers test their skills for an audience – and provide a testing ground for Hollywood, too, through likes and upvotes.
MAP, NOMAP and 764 are among the coded terms that all speak to pedophilia. Here’s how families can stay ahead of the risk.
As Australia’s teen social media ban comes into force, its scope will be tested in court.
During a year of extraordinary uncertainty, workers built resilient networks within and across boundaries and distance. An anthropologist explains how these clusters and long-distance ties help people cope, organize and adapt.
Being selective about the platforms that we spend our time on, and learning how to handle social media conflict will help the digital ecosystem for all of us.
‘Brand communities’ are sites of surprising human drama. A marketing expert explains what she found by studying them.
South African law tackles deepfakes but enforcement remains a challenge.
A machine learning study of millions of online posts found five basic kinds of users – including ‘disagreers’ who mainly like to contradict others.
Snark subreddits act as a regulatory guardrail in an industry that has gone largely unchecked.
Bots that reply to online posts can help people connect with each other, but at the same time they also interfere with people communicating with each other.
There is still public hunger for reliable and trustworthy information. This should give news media outlets hope – and inspire them to invest in new ways to reach audiences.
Reddit’s AITA content has found an afterlife on nearly every other social platform – giving life to a thriving content mill.
The platform’s own userbase could get into loggerheads with the company – particularly a certain investor community by the name of WallStreetBets.
There is no shortage of horror stories about online shaming, but it’s not always a bad thing. It comes down to who is doing the shaming and how cohesive the online community is.
Online extremism is a unique challenge – terrorists use methods that can’t be captured by standard content moderation. So, what can we do about it?
With identity the most lucrative commodity social media platforms trade in, their fetishization of authenticity remains ironclad.
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.
Dumb Money depicts the real-life GameStop short squeeze that fuelled the ‘meme stock’ trend.
Training AI systems with more focused data sets can target them to a specific use.
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