Total 40 Posts
Journalism: Digital giants paying for content is good news, but will it support local press?
5 min read
Local newspapers are a key part of the ecology of journalism.
Tech censorship is dangerous, but micro-targeted adverts are worse.
8 min read
We need to reign in political advertising online, perhaps ban it altogether, before it destroys and corrupts politics and democracy altogether.
Australia, fighting Facebook, is the latest country to struggle against foreign influence on journalism.
6 min read
The battle between media companies and foreign governments over who controls the news dates back some 150 years, to when European and US wire services dictated the world's headlines.
Far-right activists on social media telegraphed violence weeks in advance of the attack on the US Capitol.
5 min read
Trump supporters openly discussed forcing Congress and Vice President Pence to overturn the election results.
America: The water cooler taken off the boiler.
7 min read
Now that Trump has gone, the abusers don’t want peace and compromise. They just know they can’t hurt anyone on the level they did before.
It took an assault on U.S. Congress for Facebook to suspend Trump.
2 min read
Facebook has suspended Donald Trump from its platforms after posting to his supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday and using social media “to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government.”
Grenfell: It took specialist journals and social media to uncover the real story.
5 min read
How journalists with inside knowledge drove the narrative over building safety after the tragedy at Grenfell Tower.