social media
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EU issues guidelines asking social media firms to remove hate speech
Scroll Staff
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China’s Weibo says it will reward users with iPhones if they flag ‘sensitive content’
Scroll Staff
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Twitter begins trials for 280-character limit
Scroll Staff
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Could Snapchat’s biggest selling point now be its downfall?
Rebecca Mardon, The Conversation
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What the success of a journal article supporting colonialism says about academia in a clickbait era
Max Gallien Portia Roelofs
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‘Arnab Goswami went to the moon before pseudo-liberal Armstrong’: Twitter laughs at anchor’s speech
Scroll Staff
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This Indian startup knows how to make its online content go viral – with or without Facebook
Sushma UN, qz.com
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Forget all you’ve heard about technology-challenged grandparents – this nani makes her own podcasts
Shakti Swaminathan
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‘Modi should follow me instead of those celebrating Gauri Lankesh’s murder’: Ravish Kumar
Scroll Staff
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A croissant Ganesh, a stapler dinosaur and broccoli as hair: This artist will turn anything into art
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
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How Mumbai bakery Theobroma built a pan-India fan following, one gooey brownie at a time
Maria Thomas, qz.com
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Video: How Twitter cashed in on the hashtag created by an outsider
Ramakrishnan M Sanjeev Nair
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Islamic State’s Twitter network has been decimated, but what about accounts of other extremists?
Suraj Lakhani, The Conversation Maura Conway, The Conversation
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‘Mogambo prasann hua’: A Facebook page tries to show how much poorer the world would be without Urdu
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
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#WAR: With Bannon back at Breitbart news, what’s in store for the White House?
Scott Lucas, The Conversation
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WhatsApp rolls out new coloured text-based status updates
Scroll Staff
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Why so many people believe fake news – and how to get them to see through conspiracy theories
Mark Lorch, The Conversation
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Want people you barely know to offer an opinion about your life? That’s what Sarahah users are doing
Karishma Attari
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These Japanese Anime girls are endorsing Patanjali products and hanging out with Narendra Modi
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
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The popularity of ‘honesty apps’ like Sarahah shows how much we desire validation – at any cost
Amy Binns, The Conversation