1 February 2023
A study of nearly 2 million tweets over one year suggests that people in San Francisco feel disgusted when at hardware stores and Londoners are most joyful at hostels or motels
18 August 2022
An analysis of 1.2 million Reddit users found that around 16 per cent of people wrote toxic posts and 13 per cent wrote toxic comments, such as direct insults
24 June 2022
Volunteers who maintain the standard of content on Reddit’s forums do 466 hours of work every day – labour that would cost 2.8 per cent of the firm’s revenue
25 May 2022
Silicon Valley media entrepreneurs might talk about free speech, but it is a fallacy that we should be able to say whatever we want to whomever we want, warns Annalee Newitz
26 April 2022
Billionaire Elon Musk wants to promote free speech on Twitter, but the European Union's Digital Services Act could see the bloc calling the shots
25 March 2022
The European Union is close to agreeing the Digital Markets Act, which would require big tech firms to open up their services to wider competition
7 March 2022
Placebos, nocebos and the startling effect your mindset can have on your health
25 February 2022
Russia has flooded social media with disinformation as part of its offensive on Ukraine, but unlike its previous campaigns to spread falsehoods, few people seem to be falling for it
31 January 2022
Thousands of tweets every day expose other users’ date of birth, which could help criminals access their private accounts
7 December 2021
A law intended to tackle anonymous trolls on social media is unlikely to stop online bullying, but it could allow Australian government ministers to continue a trend of suing their critics
