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Should You Believe What You Read on Social Media?
I post I wrote on Facebook last week got 151 likes, far more than I have ever had before. These were from people I had never heard of. There were also 25 replies, mostly quite thoughtful. In my post I … Continue reading
The Bad Side of Social Media: Brainwashing
An encounter with a leave-supporting protester outside Parliament this week led me, as an information scientist, to look again at the role of social media and the Internet in the Brexit debate. I asked this person, who I call X … Continue reading
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