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Posted inOpinion

The real problem with free speech on social media: algorithms

by Kai Riemer and Sandra Peter May 19, 2022May 19, 2022

Imagine there is a public-speaking square in your city, much like the ancient Greek agora. Here you can freely share your ideas without censorship. But there’s one key difference. Someone decides, for his or her own economic benefit, who gets to listen to what speech or which speaker. And this isn’t disclosed when you enter, […]

Posted inOpinion

Covid and conspiracies ravage immunization efforts 

by Jonathan Gornall May 6, 2022May 6, 2022
Posted inCorporate governance

Questions mount as Musk takes over at Twitter

by Michael Withers and Steven Boivie April 26, 2022April 26, 2022
Posted inAnalysis

Musk takeover will worsen Twitter’s misinformation problem

by Anjana Susarla April 26, 2022April 26, 2022
Posted inSocial Media

What Musk’s Twitter stake means – for him and Twitter

by Hamza Mudassir April 7, 2022April 7, 2022
Posted inAnalysis

How Ukraine biolab conspiracy theory went viral

by Daniel Whelan-Shamy and Timothy Graham April 4, 2022April 6, 2022
Director Asghar Farhadi, Best screenplay award winner for the film "Forushande" (The Salesman), poses during a photocall after the closing ceremony of the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 22, 2016.  Photo: Reuters/Jean-Paul Pelissier
Posted inOpinion

‘ManoFarsi’ not an innocent debate on language education

by Kourosh Ziabari February 24, 2022February 24, 2022
Posted inSocial Media

Bots, fake accounts push China’s Olympics vision

by Steven Lee Myers Paul Mozur and Jeff Kao February 19, 2022February 22, 2022
Posted inMyanmar

China showing Myanmar junta how to firewall the internet

by Bertil Lintner December 24, 2021December 30, 2021
Posted inThe Environment

Fossil fuel firms tweeting climate misinformation

by Jill Hopke November 12, 2021November 12, 2021
Posted inHong Kong

HK ‘doxxing’ law has tech giants up in arms

by Jeff Pao July 15, 2021July 20, 2021
Posted inHong Kong

Hong Kong leader dismisses privacy law fears

by AT Contributor July 6, 2021July 7, 2021
Posted inIndia

Indians turned to Twitter for Covid-19 SoS: report

by KS Kumar July 1, 2021July 1, 2021
Posted inSingapore

Singapore uses new law to halt online virus claim

by AT Contributor May 20, 2021May 20, 2021
Posted inOpinion

Fake news, like dud banknotes, threatens society

by Francesco Sisci March 14, 2021March 17, 2021
Posted inMyanmar

Cybersecurity bill to plunge Myanmar into darkness

by Dominic Oo February 14, 2021February 18, 2021
Posted inThe Chain

Will Twitter be the next bitcoin domino to fall?

by Paul Muir February 12, 2021February 12, 2021
Posted inThe Chain

Elon Musk launches bitcoin rocket

by Paul Muir January 30, 2021January 30, 2021
Posted inXinjiang

China DC embassy account locked over Uighur tweet

by AT Contributor January 22, 2021January 22, 2021
Posted inMiddle East

Saudi Twitter users face ‘digital authoritarianism’

by Anuj Chopra November 1, 2020November 1, 2020

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