Tag: Social Media
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TikTok in China versus the United States
In CBS ’60 mins’ last week Tristan Harris, the leading researcher on Chinese high level social media strategy revealed how TikTok is designed to waste entire generations across the world, such that…
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The Twisted, Stolen Legacy of the ‘Matrix’ Red Pill (The Ringer)
The story of how the Wachowskis’ philosophical-crossroads moment was co-opted by bad-faith actors and a political movement is a complex tale about semiotics, the internet, and modern pop culture.
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Revealed: Facebook’s secret blacklist of “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” (The Intercept)
Experts say the public deserves to see the list, a clear embodiment of U.S. foreign policy priorities that could disproportionately censor marginalized groups.
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How Social Media Took Us From Tahrir Square to Donald Trump (MIT Technology Review)
To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves.
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To mobilize or to polarize? Social Media in Mandate 2014
To a large extent, social media has also contributed to polarizing opinions in the present political discourse. It is on social media that political battle-lines are being drawn with heated pro and…
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Mubarak: Divide and Be Conquered
Hosni Mubarak clearly doesn’t [care] about the pleads[sic] of the brave Egyptians protesting in Tahrir Square. This demo[nstration] was not only a call for regime change. It was a revolt against the…