Unsurprisingly, the Christchurch terror attack has brought calls for social media companies to do more to control what appears on their platforms. The perception that it’s something they can easily fix is reflected in Prime …
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A killer walks into mosques in Christchurch and broadcasts a message of hate around the world. The 50 murders reveal again the disrupted landscape of our digital world. In an age of information chaos, a …
In the wake of the Christchurch attacks, the internet giants Facebook, Google and Twitter have come under pressure for failing to prevent the killer from using their platforms to share his message, including live-streaming the …
‘Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests’, British statesman Lord Palmerston famously observed. Two centuries later, the adage of foreign policy remains true but the internet extends its relevance into …
Facebook and Google disclosed last month that they would be making changes to the ways users can interact with, monitor and block advertisements. An independent programmer pointed out that the proposed changes to Google’s Chrome …