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Tackling Tik Tok - Our expert explains what the problem is and what's next for the Chinese owned app
TikTok is one of the most popular social media sites in the world. In the United States, more than 170 million people and businesses use the ...
Advantage Ukraine? A surprising surge has Russia in retreat
The war in Ukraine has taken a surprising turn. A hard surge in the northeast of the country has seen Ukraine soldiers reclaiming lost ground ...
State-sponsored computational propaganda is a potential threat during the 2022 Winter Olympics
Sagar Samtani, assistant professor and Grant Thornton Scholar, whose research centers on AI for cybersecurity and cyber threat intelligence, is particularly watching two major cybersecurity ...
Social media as a weapon
Best-selling author Peter Singer talks with the Brunswick Review about winning the increasingly crowded and contentious war for attention What do Isis and Taylor Swift ...
White power, white supremacy, and violence – our expert explains how communication is key in perpetuating racial hatred in the United States
On August 3, 2019, a white power-inspired gunman killed 24 people and injured 22 others at a Wal-Mart in El Paso, Texas. We tend to understand mass shootings as ...
AI and online extremism
Responding to increased pressure, Facebook has "doubled down" on identifying and removing posts by online extremists and the groups they use to share content. As ...
U.S. isn't equipped to bust fake news - but Europe is
The U.S. has been rocked over the last two years by claims that the Russian government directly attempted to meddle in the 2016 presidential election. ...
Misleading our children – is revisionist history harming the education of our nation’s students?
It’s astounding and almost as if it’s a scene from a movie – meddling, mid-level politicians trying to revise and alter curriculums to ensure ...