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Polarisation on social media could be reduced with a few simple tweaks

23 May 2019

Once again elections are being battered and political views polarized by far-right propaganda flooding social media – could a simple tweak to online connections help win the information wars?

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Massive Facebook data breach left 50 million accounts exposed

1 October 2018

Facebook has suffered the biggest hack in its history. It left the personal details of 50 million accounts exposed, including Mark Zuckerberg's

Politics chat on Reddit reads like it was written by 6-year-olds

28 November 2017

You’re not imagining it: after 2016, the sophistication and civility of political discourse on sites like Reddit dropped from secondary school reading levels to barely literate

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Polarisation on social media could be reduced with a few simple tweaks

Massive Facebook data breach left 50 million accounts exposed

Politics chat on Reddit reads like it was written by 6-year-olds

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