Social Media
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The rise of amateur and celeb experts: How social media has changed the way we acquire knowledge
Ashley Morgan, The Conversation
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In Telangana, an ancient storytelling tradition is helping the police fight fake news on WhatsApp
Vishwaveer Singh
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New Year smiles: When Salman Khan went from hero to extra at the Ambani wedding
Supriya Sharma
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Fact check: As photo captures Advani with folded hands, was Modi really disrespectful to him?
Jignesh Patel, AltNews.in
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‘Propaganda, counter-productive’: BJP draws flak for tweet promoting ‘The Accidental Prime Minister’
Scroll Staff
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Video that India Today wrongly linked to Pakistan forced conversions in 2016 is viral again
Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in
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No laughing matter: Memes are taking the alt-right’s message of hate mainstream
Emiliano De Cristofaro, The Conversation
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Facebook reports bug that may have affected 6.8 million users
Scroll Staff
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Watch: This ‘jewellery-stealing prank’ is the latest weird obsession on Chinese social media
Scroll Staff
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Memes, jokes add salt to BJP’s wounds amid defeat in latest Assembly elections
Soumya Rao
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What influences markets more, Twitter or traditional news? A team of researchers tried to find out
Costas Milas, The Conversation Theodore Panagiotidis, The Conversation Theologos Dergiades, The Conversation
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Tumblr’s ban on adult content will hurt the sexual subcultures that found space on the platform
Zahra Zsuzsanna Stardust, The Conversation
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Social media continues to influence elections – this time it’s WhatsApp in Brazil
Luca Belli, The Conversation
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A new Indian zine gives sex education lessons to ignorant millennial men
Sushmita Sundaram
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Finding mental help on social media in a time of online trolling, abuse and overuse
Sampada Karandikar
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Twitter’s ‘like’ button is cute, heart-shaped – and not as harmless as it seems
A Trevor Sutton, The Conversation
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‘Can we still let the cat out of the bag?’: PETA’s anti-animal phrases post gets social media’s goat
Scroll Staff
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Mind the gap: There are three men for every woman on dating apps in India
Kuwar Singh, qz.com
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Internal Facebook emails show it gave some companies special access to user data
Scroll Staff
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In Vietnam, citizen opposition to Chinese expansionism has put the government in a tough spot
Tom Fawthorp