Social media
Tokyo 2020 U-turn allows social media teams to show athletes taking the knee
The IOC and Tokyo 2020 have performed a U-turn over a ban on official social media channels posting pictures of athletes taking the knee
Sean Ingle in Tokyo
22, Jul, 2021 @8:31 AM
Cyberflashing should be new criminal offence, review suggests
Law Commission warns of ‘untold’ harm through online abuse such as unsolicited obscene images
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent
21, Jul, 2021 @5:01 AM
Instagram ‘pushes weight-loss messages to teenagers’
Researchers find minimal interactions by teen users can trigger a deluge of thin-body and dieting images
Jim Waterson and Alex Hern
19, Jul, 2021 @11:01 PM
Biden calls on Facebook to tackle misinformation after saying it’s ‘killing people’
President says he hopes platform won’t take his earlier remark ‘personally’ and instead act to save lives
Guardian staff and agencies
19, Jul, 2021 @8:12 PM
The Guardian view on academic freedom: ministers’ claims don’t add up | Editorial
Editorial: The government says it is the champion of free speech in universities. But its actions tell another story
Editorial
18, Jul, 2021 @5:25 PM
An Ugly Truth by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang review – Facebook’s battle for domination
Russian hacking, smear campaigns and livestreamed massacres are the price of Mark Zuckerberg’s quest for connectivity, grippingly probed by two New York Times journalists
John Naughton
18, Jul, 2021 @6:00 AM
Anna X review – sound and vision steal the show in ‘fake heiress’ tale
Emma Corrin and and Nabhaan Rizwan give excellent performances in Joseph Charlton’s two-hander which has a fizzing hi-tech design
Arifa Akbar
17, Jul, 2021 @10:59 PM
Majority of Covid misinformation came from 12 people, report finds
CCDH finds ‘disinformation dozen’ have combined following of 59 million people across multiple social media platforms
Erum Salam
17, Jul, 2021 @6:34 PM
Ofcom chief slams social media giants over Euro 2020 racist messages
Melanie Dawes vows to weed out online abuse and enforce new powers to fine platforms for slow response
Michael Savage
17, Jul, 2021 @4:00 PM
Do I look cheugy in this? What can a gen Z makeover teach me about life?
With a new generation fuelling fashion, protest and popular culture, is it time for millennials like me to move over? A panel of young trailblazers give me a glow up – and some lessons in activism
Hannah Marriott
17, Jul, 2021 @10:00 AM
There’s a new tactic for exposing you to radical content online: the ‘slow red-pill’ | Joshua Citarella
The far right is trying to funnel people on Instagram to extreme content with a few simple tricks. Here’s how they do it
Joshua Citarella
15, Jul, 2021 @10:21 AM
Abolishing online anonymity won’t tackle the underlying problems of racist abuse | Hussein Kesvani
Both mandatory ID verification and ending anonymity raise their own problems, says author Hussein Kesvani
Hussein Kesvani
15, Jul, 2021 @8:00 AM
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