Social media platforms have immense power, from shutting down voices to amplifying what we see. But is that singular power perilous to democracy? Guests Shoshana Zuboff, professor emerita at Harvard Business School. Author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.” (@shoshanazuboff) Guillaume Chaslot, founder of AlgoTransparency. Mozilla fellow. Advisor at the Center […]
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How to identify fake news online in the age of social media
TAMPA, Fla. — There are a lot of ways to inform yourself of the news of the day. More people are getting their information online, but not everything you read is accurate. ABC Action News in-depth reporter Anthony Hill is digging deeper to find out how to know if the […]
UPDATE 1-French watchdog says EU monitoring market risk from social media
(Adds more detail) LONDON, Feb 3 (Reuters) – Regulators are monitoring how a surge in retail investors and online brokers during the COVID-19 pandemic risks creating bubbles inflated by social media, France’s AMF markets watchdog said on Wednesday. Robert Ophele, chair of AMF, said the trading frenzy, fuelled by posts […]
Ron DeSantis Proposes Fining Social Media Companies $100,000 if They Ban State Lawmakers
Social media companies would be subject to daily fines under a new law proposed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. © Octavio Jones/Getty Images Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis working on legislation that would penalize social media companies for blocking state politicians, even if they incite violence. DeSantis speaks to supporters […]
Why Brands Should Be Excited About the Evolution Of Social Shopping
January 15, 2021 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Social media was supposed to plateau in 2020, at least that was all the experts said, then came Covid-19, and those predictions went out the window. About 51% of US social media users had considerably increased […]
The real-world consequences of social media’s assault on good journalism
This is one in a series of articles about how Canada should navigate regulating technology companies. © Provided by National Post The Reuters Institute found that Canadians are increasingly using Big Tech’s social media platforms as a source of news rather than TV and print. By Aneurin Bosley News organizations […]
We must examine social media’s impact on children
A child psychiatrist says that technology has gotten ahead of our ability to think about its impact on children. Getty Images It has been 20 years since I wrote an article for the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry titled “The Impact of Media on Children […]
Is social media an influential technology or an insurrectionist tool?: Status Report
Portion of “Guernica” by Pablo Picasso, 1937. [Licensed under Creative Commons] On January 7, when Facebook suspended the US president’s account, followed on January 12 by Twitter suspending his account there, the response moved needles. “These actions,” wrote Prof. Ethan Zuckerman of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, for CNN.com, […]
Datametrex AI Tracks Social Media Data to Understand “Reddit” Effect
Datametrex AI Limited is pleased to announce that NexaSMART allows for deepened analysis and understanding of social media influence over stock prices. Nexalogy will soon add Reddit and other data sources in order to expand AI interpretation of such trends. NexaSMART stands for “Social Media Automated Reporting Technology.”Many investor eyes […]
The Technology 202: New report calls conservative claims of social media censorship ‘a form of disinformation’
The report found there is no trustworthy large-scale data to support these claims, and even anecdotal examples that tech companies are biased against conservatives “crumble under close examination.” The report’s authors said, for instance, the companies’ suspensions of Trump were “reasonable” given his repeated violation of their terms of service […]