Editorial: The Trump administration’s initial reaction to the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis shows how the incentives created by social media are distorting truth and undermining ...

Misinformation technology could be deployed at scale to disrupt 2028 US presidential election, AI researchers say ...

Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values and emotional states. It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines verified news sources ...

History suggests that resistance will not end when the military falls. It will only end when real systemic justice is achieved. The U.N. and Myanmar flags flying side by side outside the Pyidaungsu ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values and emotional states. It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines ...

Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values and emotional states. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. It is a design ...

Over the last five or so decades, American elections have become increasingly defined by what they don’t accomplish. The classical liberal model of free and fair elections to select representatives ...

HONG KONG — Hong Kong pro-democracy political party the League of Social Democrats announced Sunday that it had disbanded due to immense political pressure, the latest casualty in a years-long ...

After World War II, political parties championing redistribution, full employment, and egalitarianism gained power across the globe, especially in Western Europe. But why did these social democrats ...

Thinking back to the day Edgar Maddison Welch burst into Comet Ping Pong is, for me, a reminder. It’s easy to cast judgment on someone who drives across state lines with an AR-15 to investigate a ...

Is the current wave of concern about smartphones and social media just another moral panic, like the ones that arose in response to radio, television, and comic books? Or is the new "phone-based ...