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WHO launches pilot of AI-powered public-access social listening tool
29 January 2021
What is the pilot and why is it important?
If you’ve been following WHO’s infodemic management updates and training courses at any point...
The 24 ways we’re tracked on a regular basis reveal something...
By Kevin Kelly, "The Inevitable"
Jun 28, 2016
photo: Courtesy 20th Century Fox/Dreamworks
The design of the internet of everything, and the nature...
The GameStop fiasco
The GameStop Bubble Is a Lesson in the Absurdity and Uselessness of the Stock Market
By Doug Henwood
Jan.27, 2021
Who knew GameStop would itself become...
Corona-free? How disinformation could be clouding the true pandemic picture in...
By Julia Ilhardt, Giorgio Musto, Samikshya Siwakoti, Jacob N. Shapiro
September 21, 2020
Of the roughly 28.6 million cases of COVID-19 logged by the World Health...
Zuckerberg will permanently depoliticise Facebook following violence organised on platform
By Adam Smith
Jan. 28, 2021
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that the social media company will be reducing the amount of political content on...
The Moronic Firing of Will Wilkinson Illustrates Why Fear and Bad...
By Glenn Greenwald
Jan 22, 2021
Will Wilkinson is about as mainstream and conventional a thinker as one can find, and is unfailingly civil and restrained...
Donald Trump’s Twitter ban is ‘problematic,’ says Angela Merkel
Jan. 12, 2021
German Chancellor Angela Merkel considers US President Donald Trump's eviction from Twitter by the company "problematic," her spokesman said on Monday.
Twitter permanently...
Even If Assange’s Death isn’t the Goal of the US and...
by Jonathan Cook*
January 8, 2021
There was a hope in some quarters after Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled on Monday against an application to extradite Julian...
‘Free speech’ platform Gab surges in popularity in wake of Silicon...
10 Jan, 2021
With conservatives being purged from Twitter and free-speech alternative Parler taken off Amazon, fringe platform Gab has exploded in popularity. It comes...
Caitlin Johnstone: The two-faced mainstream media is already using the Washington...
By Caitlin Johnstone*
7 Jan, 2021
So the US gets a tiny taste of its own medicine and now the press wants controls on what people can...