Tag: Social media

French authorities have arrested Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder of Telegram, the world's seventh-largest messaging app, over claims that its lack of moderation has enabled criminal activity.

Specialist police units are scouring social media to clamp down on "hate influencers" accused of inciting the riots seen on British streets.

Richard Dawkins's Facebook account has been deleted after he posted that genetically male boxers should not fight women. Could anything sum up more perfectly the dire state of free speech today?

The Government is "scouring social media" to arrest people who share social media posts about the riots that it judges are "likely to start racial hatred", regardless of their intent.

Prof Norman Fenton and Dr Scott McLachlan were edited out of Channel 5's Lucy Letby documentary on Sunday night. Their crime? Expressing forbidden views online. It shows how pernicious cancel culture has become, says Dr Fenton.

We are tempted at times to call our enemies Narcissists. But narcissists are harmless, says Prof James Alexander. It is the vain that are the trouble. And in the age of social media we live in the Kingdom of the Vain.

The relentless, social media-driven 24 hour news cycle is not conducive to the calm acquisition of knowledge about the world, says Professor James Alexander. How can we escape from it?

Why did the BBC and ITV decide to smear Reform – on the same day! – with a baseless story about 'bots' boosting their support on social media, asks Ben Pile. It's the latest example of dissenters being smeared by the MSM.

A new investigation reveals the US military spread anti-vaccine propaganda in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic, using fake accounts to undermine China and cast doubt on the safety of Chinese vaccines.

Elon Musk has said "freedom of speech is worth fighting for" after Australia's cyber safety regulator dropped its federal court case over X Corp's refusal to globally block footage it deemed harmful.