Joseph B. Walther, University of California, Santa Barbara The rampant increase of hate messages on social media is a scourge in today’s technology-infused society. Racism, homophobia, xenophobia and even personal attacks on people who have the audacity to disagree with someone else’s political opinion – these and other forms of online hate present an ugly…
Hindsight Is Golden: Google Edition
Over the past 25 years, Google has not only become synonymous with internet search but has also introduced several services used by billions of people.
Google Takes Lion’s Share of Search Ad Revenues
Google’s de-facto monopoly has been unchallenged over the past 20 years, search ad revenue, would the likes of DuckDuckGo pose a challenge?
How to Quickly Get to the Important Truth Inside Any Privacy Policy
An investigative data journalist and a former tech lawyer teach you how to spot tricks and hidden disclosures within these interminable documents—and even how to claw back some privacy
Threads suffers precipitous fall in user engagement
The platform which was launched as a Twitter-killer is already witnessing teething troubles, but is proving sceptics of its long-term viability right.
Should newsrooms be inspired by Wikipedia?
Wikipedia remains an inspiration especially because of the way people have spent time editing and writing for it on a purely voluntary basis. But can journalism be run on similar principles?
Why Open Graph tags are necessary for news websites?
The use of Open Graph tags are necessary as social media platforms continue to remain important sources of traffic for news websites. Since Mastodon also recognise OG tags, they will continue to be useful.
There is a career to be made in News SEO
There is SEO and then there is News SEO. Not quite. But News SEO is emerging as a specialisation that can open up a career path for young journalists. Here’s a handy starting point to get going on it.
The cost of blocking the Internet
By first throttling and then blocking access to social media sites and news outlets, Russia has caused the most expensive internet blockage of 2022. This is according to tech company Top 10 VPN. The service puts the economic cost at $21.6 billion in the country between the invasion of Ukraine in February and the end…
The countries shutting down the Internet the most
In many countries, the drastic step of shutting down the internet is employed in response to actual or potential unrest. Shutdowns generally occur when someone (usually a government) intentionally disrupts the internet or mobile apps. The measure has been widely criticized as too drastic a curbing of freedom of expression and an encroachment of peoples’…