�鶹��ý

Skip to content

A weather forecast for fake news outbreaks on social media is coming

Technology

A weather forecast for fake news outbreaks on social media is coming

A social media weather report that predicts outbreaks of propaganda is on its way. It can't arrive soon enough, says Annalee Newitz

Comment

How Korean pop fans took on white supremacists – and won

Life

How Korean pop fans took on white supremacists – and won

Comment

Smartphone

Technology

How the coronavirus pandemic is fuelling online trolls and scams

News

Facebook on smartphone

Technology

People who compare themselves with others spend longer on Facebook

News

Fake news

Technology

Fake news gets shared more when it is angry and anxiety-inducing

News

Fake news

Technology

There probably isn’t as much fake news in the media as we think

News

A new wave of apps say they can improve your friendships – can they?

Humans

A new wave of apps say they can improve your friendships – can they?

Features

TikTok: How did the video-sharing app get so big so quickly?

Technology

TikTok: How did the video-sharing app get so big so quickly?

Culture

Twitter was once a fun place – now it is heading towards destruction

Technology

Twitter was once a fun place – now it is heading towards destruction

Comment

Gamifying hate: How alt-right extremists recruit and mobilise online

Humans

Gamifying hate: How alt-right extremists recruit and mobilise online

Julia Ebner infiltrated the hidden forums that extremists use. Her experiences lay bare how they hijack social media and video games to spread hate – and how to beat them

Features

Technology

Will Instagram filters alter our view of beauty and who we are?

Culture

Technology

UK plans to regulate the internet won't make much difference at all

Analysis

Humans

Jess Wade's one-woman mission to diversify Wikipedia's science stories

Features

Technology

TikTok may be leaking people's data from the US to China

Analysis