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Twitter and the dangers of the US myth of free speech

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
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Sci-fi is starting to exploit the infectious horrors of memes

6 April 2022

A new micro-genre of science fiction explores how mind control is at the very heart of our networked existence

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