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• Erika Lust: #MeToo left sex workers behind

  There's no questioning that sex workers face judgement, as well as blatant discrimination. In media, they’re punished, ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Is Microsoft teasing a Netflix tie-in? Stranger Things have happened

  Microsoft yesterday took to Twitter and Instagram to tease social media denizens with a cryptic Windows 1.0 video. After you check your calendar to make sure it's still 2019, check out the posts below: https://twitter.com/Windows/status/1145731141695168512 As you can see, the ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Research: The best way to stop the spread of fake photos is education

  It can be hard to tell whether a picture is real. Consider, as the participants in our recent research did, these two images and see whether you think neither, either or both of them has been doctored. You might have based your assessment of the images on the ...

  • The Conversation

• Secret US Border Patrol hate group exposed on Facebook

  Investigative journalist A.C. Thompson from ProPublica today exposed a secret Facebook group for US Border Patrol agents full of racist and misogynistic comments and memes, including calls for violent action against immigrants and Democrats. The group, called “I'm 10-15,” a ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google's staff banned from protesting YouTube under the company's banner

  Google warned its employees that those planning to ride the company's sponsored float will not be allowed to protest against ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Patients' social media use can threaten the reliability of clinical trials

  Testing new pharmaceutical treatments is a complicated process. Very often, participants have preferences or hopes, either ...

  • The Conversation

• Here’s how to delete or deactivate your Facebook account

  Social sites walk a fine line between being handy and consuming your life. Facebook make it tricky to delete your account ...

  • Cara Curtis

• You can't offer to murder cops on Reddit unless you're on r/TheDonald

  Reddit has a very specific policy prohibiting people from threatening bodily harm or attempting to incite violence. It uses this policy as the basis for banning individual accounts, discussion threads, and whole subreddits. Basically if you cross the line, you're gone. Unless you're ...

  • Tristan Greene

• ‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked on the algorithm

  Google is notoriously cryptic about how YouTube's recommendations work, that's why Guillaume Chaslot is fighting for increased ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Facebook, Twitter and major social media sites blocked amid Liberian anti-corruption protest

  Telecommunications companies and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Liberia have restricted Internet access in the country ...

  • iAfrikan News

• People with disabilities are finding empowerment from Instagram communities

  When I search for “bipolar mother” on Google Images, I find a lot of women with their heads in their hands, their crying ...

  • Rae Rose

• Midboss' Summer of Pride is a game-streaming celebration of inclusivity

  MidBoss, the company behind 2064: Read Only Memories, is kicking off its Summer of Pride gaming celebration to coincide with ...

  • Tristan Greene