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Published in: digitaLibertiesTechlash: why Facebook’s approach to #FakeNews ultimately fails
Zuckerberg needs to take a step back and allow institutions to flourish. There are only bigger waves looming ahead.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Understanding the mainstreaming of the far right
It is essential to move beyond electoral politics to understand the way the far right is being mainstreamed. It...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesFacebook and journalism. Part two
Facebook has fundamentally changed the news ecosystem and has, in fact, jeopardised press freedom and plurality –...
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Published in: 50.50US evangelicals targeted LGBT young people with ‘dehumanising’ Facebook and YouTube ads
Social media giants acknowledge that Anchored North video ads violated their rules to protect users – but not until...
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Published in: openIndiaSubverting democracy without vote-rigging
Recent events in some prominent democratic nations have highlighted the internal threats that are hard to see and...
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Published in: HomeFacebook and journalism. Part one
How Facebook turned into the world’s biggest news platform, with newsrooms and journalists paving the way.
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Published in: 50.50MPs criticise Facebook’s ‘not fit for purpose’ foreign ad ban as Ireland votes on abortion
British and Irish parliamentarians call for major changes to unregulated social media campaigning following...
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Published in: 50.50Six ways Ireland’s abortion referendum could be hacked this week
Anti-abortion money, Facebook ads and boots-on-the-ground volunteers have piled in from across the world to try and...
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Published in: HomeThe eyes of Iran and its children: ordinary lives, Iranian sanctions and Donald Trump’s rejection of the nuclear deal
On Tuesday night before the announcement, one ex-blogger wrote on Telegram how it seemed that Iran was engaged in...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAs Cambridge Analytica and SCL Elections shut down, SCL Group's defence work needs real scrutiny
We can’t understand the significance of Cambridge Analytica without looking at the network it sits in, and how...
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Published in: 50.50How Irish anti-abortion activists are drawing on Brexit and Trump campaigns to influence referendum
Backlash against Irish abortion rights enlists some of the same technologies, companies, and individuals involved in...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesDoing anti-surveillance activism differently
Recent campaigns waged in two Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries provide some interesting...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaMadrid as a place of democratic innovation
An exuberant ecosystem of citizen practices and self-managed spaces has turned Madrid into an international...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaPolitical discontent and technological evolution in Latin America
We are in the presence of a demos, a politically organized society which has been undergoing changes in Latin...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesIn this age of populism, it’s not ‘Cyber’ that’s being Balkanised – it’s people
The Balkans, already facing charges of bringing the world the First World War and the term ‘ethnic cleansing’, are...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHow a new era of digital democracy will change how we interact with politics
Digital innovations may change the quality of participation and the nature of democracy, but how? Español, Português
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Published in: 50.50Foreign and ‘alt-Right’ activists target Irish voters on Facebook ahead of abortion referendum
New data shows how social media has become a battleground in a transatlantic backlash against abortion rights for Irish women
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHuman evolution and innovation go hand in hand
Innovation is not an option: it is a necessity - to keep on improving on the way we do things and having a role to...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaA new wave of applied innovation in our cities
Citizen producers take advantage of networked knowledge and benefit from new available production spaces. New skills...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe new platforms transforming public management
The demand for more open participatory models entails the creation of more digitized, transparent, horizontal and...