Ryan McMaken/ Eurasia Review Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants more government regulation of social media. In a March 30 op-ed for the Washington Post, Zuckerberg trots out the innocent-sounding pablum we’ve come to expect from him: I believe we need a more active rol ...বিস্তারিত
Tom Hawking/ The Guardian, UK YouTube has long had a reputation as a hive of conspiracy theories, misinformation, and pseudoscience. All these accusations are, more or less, true — if you’re vulnerable to the wooing of Flat Earthers, anti-vaxxers, 9/11 truthers, the a ...বিস্তারিত
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg The “Momo challenge,” the latest iteration of the remarkably persistent teen suicide game scare, is a hoax born of parents’ media illiteracy and anxiety about what kids do online all by themselves. But the issue of internet-inflicted har ...বিস্তারিত
Sejuti Mourin of DOT Dr. Ido Sella and Shimrit Perkol-Finkel , two marine biologists solving one of the least ‘sexy’ problems in the world. The problem is concrete. Not many people know this but concrete this rock, solid, grey, boring structure is great to build hous ...বিস্তারিত
David Von Drehle, an American author and a columnist for the Washington Post/ Gulf News In newsrooms the platform is a drug that insinuates itself into our vulnerabilities I saw the future of political reporting half a dozen years ago and I’ve been hoping to unsee it e ...বিস্তারিত
Asim Qureshi, CEO Jibble Group/ Linked In Is Alphabet's Waymo a threat to Tesla and its self-driving technology? Waymo is, according to analysts, worth around 3-5x as much as Musk's hyped-up Tesla, and yet it hasn't sold a single car. Why is Waymo so valuable? Because w ...বিস্তারিত
Syeda Gulshan Ferdous Jana speaks to DOT We are deeply concerned about new attempts by the Bangladesh authority to silence freedom of expression in Bangladesh. The government has early this week through BTRC instructed all the ISPs in the country to block books.google.com.b ...বিস্তারিত
John McLellan/The Scotsman The Cairncross Review highlighted how news organisations are losing advertising revenue as tech companies like Google, Apple and Facebook take a significant slice of the advertising market, writes John McLellan. Nothing to do with the Cambridge ...বিস্তারিত
Aaron, Calhoun, Georgia/ Linked In Welcome to the 21st century Where sex is free, love is expensive. Where losing a phone is more painful than losing your virginity. Where modernisation means nudity, where if you don't drink / smoke you're out of fashion, where boys flir ...বিস্তারিত
Binoy Kampmark/Eurasia Review It is all a rather sorry tale. Molly Russell, another teenager gorged on social media content, sharing and darkly revelling, took her own life in 2017 supposedly after viewing what the BBC described as “disturbing content about suicide on s ...বিস্তারিত
