The Macedonian Teens Who Mastered Fake News
Bored teenagers looking to make some extra cash have played a major part in spreading the fake news that has influenced major global events – this piece looks at how they do it.
The Murky History of Moderation
A deep dive into the thorny issue of how and why content posted on the web is censored.
The Tortoise and the Share
Amol Rajan, BBC Media Editor and former Editor of The Independent, delivered this lecture on the future of journalism, aptly summarised in the subhead as “How to Save Journalism (from Itself)”.
Down the Breitbart Hole
A timely profile of Breitbart and its 31 year old editor-in-chief Alexander Marlow.
The Catch 22 of Hacktivism
Hacktivists use open source technology and publicly available information to investigate political and military activity – this piece looks into the problems their activities throw up.
I’m a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you.
A Stanford computer scientist offers an eloquent response to the internal memo written by a Google engineer that leaked last week.