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The misleading information in one of America’s most popular podcasts

Sometimes, misleading information is easy to spot, traveling in the same conspiracy-theory-slicked grooves it has for decades. The same ideas that...

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Imagining an internet without TikTok

The bill to require TikTok to separate from its Chinese parent company or face a nationwide ban made it to President Joe Biden’s desk on Wednesday...

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The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse

Line up a few years’ worth of tragedies and disasters, and the online conversations about them will reveal their patterns. The same...

28.03.2024 10

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The latest drama in “poverty porn” YouTube, explained

Trying to keep track of controversies in today’s splintered online world feels like trying to analyze each of the bubbles in a perpetually boiling...

21.03.2024 10

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Banning TikTok would be both ineffective and harmful

TikTok, like any place on the internet where a ton of people are watching and sharing and competing for attention, is best understood in terms of...

14.03.2024 10

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Researchers use online opt-in surveys all the time. Should they?

Search around for ways to make a little extra money online, and you might find yourself at one of many sites that offer to pay you to take surveys....

07.03.2024 10

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A poster’s guide to who’s selling your data to train AI 

If you’ve ever posted anything on the internet, chances are that your data has already been scraped, collected, and used to train AI systems like...

29.02.2024 6

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AI-generated video is here to awe and mislead

A tiny fluffy monster kneels in wonder beside a lit candle. Two small pirate ships battle inside a churning cup of coffee. An octopus crawls along the...

22.02.2024 40

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How discredited health claims find a second life on TikTok

Barbara O’Neill, who makes a living as a holistic health educator, has given lectures claiming that cancer is caused by a fungus and that she has...

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What we’ve learned from 20 years of Facebook

Twenty years ago last Sunday, Mark Zuckerberg launched “TheFacebook,” an online directory designed to let his fellow Harvard students search for...

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The complicated lives and deaths of TikTok’s illness influencers

22.01.2024 6

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Chatbot therapy is risky. It’s also not useless.

I didn’t find a therapist when I first felt I might need one, nor when I finally found the energy to start Googling the therapists with offices near...

14.12.2023 10

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Plagiarism doesn’t need AI to thrive online

Copying has always been a part of internet culture. Sometimes it’s ethical, sometimes not. It’s almost always incentivized: Once social media...

07.12.2023 5

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Local police should not be your go-to source for iPhone safety news

Warnings about NameDrop, a feature on Apple’s iOS 17 that allows users to share contact information, have spread like an annoying chain letter...

29.11.2023 40

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The controversy over TikTok and Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America,” explained

This week, videos featuring former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s 2002 missive “Letter to America” were posted to TikTok, leading a wide...

18.11.2023 10

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Why some Palestinians believe social media companies are suppressing their posts

“Algospeak” is an evasion tactic for automated moderation on social media, where users create new words to use in place of keywords that might get...

29.10.2023 6

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Elon Musk faces his first big investigation for disinformation on X

17.10.2023 4

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Don’t believe everything you see and hear about Israel and Palestine

After Hamas militants launched a surprise attack on Israel on October 7, killing at least 1,000 and taking at least 150 hostages, and Israel declared...

12.10.2023 2

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How TikTok monetizes dangerous health trends in real time

05.10.2023 4

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Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do

Anyone can get scammed online, including the generation of Americans that grew up with the internet. If you’re part of Generation Z — that is,...

21.09.2023 5

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How Covid misinformation stayed one step ahead of Facebook

The work of trying to minimize the influence of harmful misinformation is both exhausting and essential. Big pushes, like the one Meta undertook in...

16.09.2023 5

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TikTok’s shopping push left my For You page in shambles

Right next to the For You page on TikTok lives the TikTok Shop, the new and inevitable evolution of the company’s attempts to make money off of how...

14.09.2023 3

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