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Online censorship is toppling statues that haven’t been built yet: op-ed

Tim Hinchliffe1 week ago

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To the victors go the spoils, they say, but in the siege of online censorship over freedom of thought, the...

Social Media

Exposing echo chambers to eradicate the plague of propaganda

Tim Hinchliffe1 year ago

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Five years after Dmytro Potekhin's 48 horrendous days in captivity at the hands of pro-Russian terrorists in Ukraine, the civic activist...

Social Media

Who discerns what is fake news and why don’t we decide for ourselves?

Navanwita Sachdev1 year ago

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Governments across the world are implementing policies and practices to control the fake news monster of social media. However, who...

Web

Adblock Plus maker eyeo launches free browser extension to spot fake news

Tim Hinchliffe2 years ago

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Today, Adblock Plus maker eyeo launches a free web browser extension called Trusted News to help web surfers spot fake news sources. Currently...

Social Media Technology

‘Selfitis’: Obsessive selfie taking as a real disorder and the fake news stories that inspired its research

Sam Brake Guia3 years ago

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We can all relate to one person on our news feeds that loves taking selfies just a little too much....

Social Media Technology Web

Tech sector issues: 4 ways big tech grew up this year

Ben Allen3 years ago

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Tech sector issues have been numerous and significant this year and appear to have amounted to the industry having traversed...

Web

How to put out the fake news wildfire

Zac Laval3 years ago

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In a recent survey from Pew Research Center, two-thirds of Americans (67%) were found to use social media as a...

Business Social Media Technology

Has technology broken the media? How valuable content can triumph over fake news

Ben Allen3 years ago

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Since the Great Fake News Elections of 2016, the media has often been said to be in crisis, but it’s...

Technology

Social bots and fake news: A reminder to protect your online brand

Zac Laval3 years ago

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Social bots – one of the main “social media villains” – have recently been discovered to “play a key role...

Technology

The better angels of tech making progress in the face controversy and cynicism

Ben Allen3 years ago

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The policies of the tech community are obviously not with out controversy, but here are five ways that the community is...

Web

Who was the late German journalist who claimed CIA controlled European media?

Tim Hinchliffe4 years ago

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Controversial German journalist, fake news participant, and alleged CIA whistle blower, Udo Ulfkotte, dies of a heart attack at the...

Web

Google, Facebook control 99% of ad growth; how does this affect journalism?

Tim Hinchliffe4 years ago

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Google and Facebook dominate digital ad growth, accounting for 99% of all revenue in 2016. How does this affect the...

Technology

Is there nothing that can’t be faked with vocal, facial manipulation?

Tim Hinchliffe4 years ago

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Between Adobe Voco and Stanford University's Face2Face technologies, virtually any person dead or alive can be imitated with vocal and facial...

Social Media

Facebook to rely on unnamed third-party fact checkers for fake news

Tim Hinchliffe4 years ago

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Under scrutiny for being a platform that distributes so-called fake news, Facebook will rely on third-party fact checkers to determine if...

Web

Propaganda Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: The Govt Infiltration of US Media

Tim Hinchliffe4 years ago

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The US Government pays $500 million to PR firm for fake news propaganda on Iraq as intelligence agencies rationalize the impersonation...

Brains Byte Back

The weekly podcast looking at how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. Every Monday we bring you the best stories and guests from around the world relating to technology, psychology, and society.

Randon Heim is the host of “Don’t worry, We’ll talk it out,” a podcast exploring the fundamental concepts that drive how we perceive the world. “The Psychology of a Riot,” “The Black Death: Coronavirus and Race Relations,” and “Ignorance is Bliss: How Anti-Intellectualism Ruined America,” are just a few examples of subjects Heim has covered on his show, but today he joins us to discuss Cancel Culture.

If you are unfamiliar with the term Cancel Culture… well, you are in the right place, but to give you a brief description now, Cancel Culture refers to the act of withdrawing support for (canceling) public figures and companies that have done or said something considered objectionable or offensive.

In this episode, we discuss the positive and negative use case of Cancel Culture, how innocent citizens have been impacted by this, and beloved historical figure who could have been impacted by Cancel Culture due to skeletons in their closets.

In addition to the above, since it is impossible to future proof what we say or post against the moral standard of tomorrow, we explore how society’s perception of past comments, pictures, or posts will evolve in time, and what it will take for us to find a healthy relationship with Cancel Culture.