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It seems like just the other day that Reddit finally banned a handful of its most hateful and deplorable subreddits, including r/coontown and r/fatpeoplehate. The move was, at the time, derided by some as pointless, akin to shooing criminals away from one neighborhood only to trouble another. But a new study shows that, for Reddit at least, it has had lasting positive effects.
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers.
People deal in varying ways with tensions about what information to trust and how much they want to learn. Some are interested and engaged with information; others are wary and stressed.
The Paradox of Tolerance says that a tolerant society should be intolerant of one thing: intolerance itself. This is because if a tolerant society allows intolerance to take over, it will destroy t…
In her new book, 'Crash Override,' Zoë Quinn argues that overly opaque Terms of Service can perpetuate online abuse.
Coders jailed for VW catalytic converter exploit.
Historical look, 60s thru 2000s.
The latest twist sees the bot armies busily retweeting legitimate accounts in an attempt to get them banned for abuse – and it’s working. So why can’t Twitter do better?
You can guess the result of a Danish experiment, but it’s still interesting.
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” We should learn from experiences, particularly if those experiences show our previous ...
Automated systems that watch online chats and flag racist, sexist and bullying behavior could help curtail internet abuse.
If you can't say something nice, Instagram will make sure you say nothing at all.
Google has been scoring websites in advance of its ad-blocking browser that's due out in 2018.
Over the last months, I reported about 300 hate tweets. Twitter failed to delete most of them, so I sprayed them in front of their office.
/ Thanks to: Claudia Ulhaas, Marc Quambusch, Tristan Rodgers, Karen Stock, Juliane M. Schreiber.
/ Thanks to: Claudia Ulhaas, Marc Quambusch, Tristan Rodgers, Karen Stock, Juliane M. Schreiber.
While time spent on social media is considered a risk factor for mental health problems, the more important factors may be related to which platforms are used and the user’s online experiences.
A journalist and a data scientist secured data from three million users easily by creating a fake marketing company, and were able to de-anonymise many users
The creators also hope that the quiz will force people to calm down before they post