Tag: Social media

Elon Musk's Twitter rants have Germany's political class clutching their pearls, with cries of election interference, treason and a national security crisis, says Eugyppius.

What are your hope and dreams for 2025? Top of Charlotte Gill's list is a DOGE U.K. to bring Elon Musk's war on public sector waste to this country – and she's already started putting one together.

The word of the year is "Manifest", says the Cambridge Dictionary. What does it mean? Here's an example, says Prof James Alexander: public health busybodies were 'manifesting' when they confected the Covid 'pandemic'.

China has been caught spying on America using 'backdoors' in Western technology that the U.S. Government mandated telecom companies to put there. It's time to close these self-imposed weaknesses, says Dr. R P.

Eugyppius recounts the sad story of Doris van Geul, a 74 year-old pensioner fined for incitement after a Facebook post critical of migrants, with her conviction threatening to bankrupt her for the rest of her life.

Australia is the first country to ban social media for under-16s after a landmark bill passed that critics have warned is rushed and a Trojan horse for Government Digital ID as everyone must now verify their age.

The Guardian's flounce off X is just an admission that it lost the argument, says Ben Pile. The liberal retreat to comfy echo chambers coincides with Milei's Argentina quitting COP29. The Blobs are going down.

"Make Orwell Fiction Again!" declared Elon Musk when he heard about Essex Police's disgraceful doorstepping and investigation of award-winning journalist Allison Pearson over a year-old deleted tweet.

Forget about reading books, teenagers aren't even bothering with the internet anymore, discovers Joanna Gray. With social media algorithms feeding them entertainment, looking things up just doesn't feature.

It's handbags at dawn between Elon Musk and Keir Starmer’s Labour Government, says Jawad Iqbal. It's a funny way of showing Britain is "open for business".