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We Know Better than to Allow Facebook to Control the Metaverse

Bree McEwan University of Toronto Bree McEwan is an associate professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology where she researches the intersection between interpersonal and communication technology. In the midst of the scandals of the Facebook papers, Facebook rebranded the company as Meta. The new name was

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Cyberattacks to Critical Infrastructure Threaten Our Safety and Well-Being

Jason Jaskolka Carleton University Dr. Jason Jaskolka is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Cyber Security Evaluation and Assurance (CyberSEA) Research Lab at Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada. What would happen if you could no longer use the technological systems

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Online Anonymity: Study Found ‘Stable Pseudonyms’ Created a More Civil Environment than Real User Names

Online Anonymity: Study Found ‘Stable Pseudonyms’ Created a More Civil Environment than Real User Names

Alfred Moore University of York Alfred Moore works on political theory, and has published widely on deliberative democratic theory, the politics of expertise, epistemic democracy, and is currently working on anonymity and publicity in democratic politics. The ability to remain anonymous when commenting online is a double-edged sword. It is

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How Big Tech Is Changing Who’s in Charge of Our Rights and Freedoms

How Big Tech Is Changing Who’s in Charge of Our Rights and Freedoms

Giovanni De Gregorio University of Oxford Giovanni De Gregorio is a postdoctoral researcher working with the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. Within the framework of the ERC ConflictNet project, His research focuses on content moderation and artificial intelligence; hate speech and disinformation

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Google Loses Appeal against €2.4 Billion Fine: Tech Giants Might Now Have to Re-Think Their Entire Business Models

Google Loses Appeal against €2.4 Billion Fine: Tech Giants Might Now Have to Re-Think Their Entire Business Models

Renaud Foucart Lancaster University Renaud Foucart is an applied microeconomic theorist. This means he trys to understand real world puzzles by modelling strategic interactions. This has led him to work on topics as different as smoking bans, Islamic finance, environmental agreements, Google is being fined €2.4 billion (£2.1

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China’s Tech and Finance Crackdown Is a Challenge to Western Ideas That Cuts across Developing World

Johannes Petry University of Warwick Johannes Petry is a political economist researching the changing dynamics of financial globalisation and its impact on the global norms, institutions and governance that underpin the global economy. China introduced new rules on November 1 that restrict the extent to which internet companies can collect

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The Great Reset’s Digital ID for New Zealand

Olivia Pierson oliviapierson.org Our government likes to rule under cover of darkness while people are utterly distracted and have little knowledge of bills going through parliament.  They’re never shouted from the rooftops for a reason. I share my submissions sometimes in order for others to notice these issues

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The Rise of Dark Web Design: How Sites Manipulate You into Clicking

Daniel Fitton University of Central Lancashire Daniel Fitton is a Reader in User Experience Design at the University of Central Lancashire where he leads the User Experience Design MSc and MRes courses in addition teaching a range of technical and HCI-related modules. He work within the Child-Computer Interaction (ChiCI) research

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