Category Archives: Internet

Freedom to Connect

Posted on March 14, 2020 by Eugene Ivanov

Social media were once considered a liberating technology, a level playing field allowing civil groups and ordinary citizens to reach large audiences at little or no cost. Unfortunately, the open and almost unregulated space of social media platforms has been … Continue reading →

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United by technology, separated by ideology?

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Eugene Ivanov

A 2017 Pew Research Center study reported that 41 percent of Americans had experienced online harassment, an increase from 2014. A more recent survey by the Anti-Defamation League showed that already more than half of Americans, 53 percent, say they experienced hate speech and … Continue reading →

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Computational propaganda: another dark corner of the net

Posted on January 7, 2020 by Eugene Ivanov

Sir Tim Berners-Lee has all the reason to be proud of his life’s crown achievement: the World Wide Web. But he is not. In a series of interviews last fall, Berners-Lee complained that the internet today isn’t what he imagined … Continue reading →

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