Brigid Magner Linda Daley RMIT University Brigid is a Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies and founding member of the non/fictionLab research group at RMIT University. Her monograph Locating Australian Literary Memory was published by Anthem Press in 2019. Linda teaches literary studies in the School of Media & Communication.
Who would have thought that Facebook would become a target of censorship, and from none other than the Biden administration? ReclaimTheNet explains. The Biden administration continues to pressure Facebook to collaborate and help it achieve its goals, one of them being to counter COVID vaccine skepticism and get more people
Jathan Sadowski Monash University Research Fellow, Emerging Technologies Research Lab and CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Monash University I’m a Luddite. This is not a hesitant confession, but a proud proclamation. I’m also a social scientist who studies how new technologies affect politics, economics and society. For
Andrew Torba CEO, Gab.com Jesus is King I woke up to another hit piece about both Gab and myself this morning. You know you are over target when you’re taking flak on a weekly basis. The funny thing is the “hit piece” actually made Gab look pretty great.
Lucia Nalbandian Ryerson University Lucia is a passionate public servant and a curious researcher. By day, Lucia spends her time with the brilliant minds at the Policy Innovation Hub. Positioned in the Ontario Cabinet Office, the Hub has four practice areas, focused on strategy and strategic foresight, systemic design and
Dr. Ananya Mukherjee University of Surrey Ananya Mukherjee is a Research Associate with the University of Surrey. She currently works on a resilience and climate change adaptation project of socio-ecological systems (food and water systems) in the global South with the University of Cardiff. Imagine if you could power your
When Donald Trump called the mainstream media the “enemy of the people”, the talking heads exploded. How dare he, indeed. But if seriously undermining America’s democracy, fomenting civil unrest and propagating known lies with the intent of undermining elected leaders constitutes an enemy of the people, then Trump was
Cheryl K. Chumley ronpaulinstitute.org US Customs and Border Patrol announced its officers at a port in Alaska recently seized thousands of fake COVID-19 vaccination cards that came from China. The seizure opens the door for government to go forward with the technological tracking of US citizens. How so? It
Every joke is a tiny revolution. This point cannot be over-emphasised. If there’s one thing authoritarians are afraid of, it’s being laughed at. Shortly after coming to power, the Nazis banned mockery of their party or the Führer. Comedian Werner Finck was arrested twice for making fun of
If we are to believe the FBI, apparently nearly two million Americans are “terrorists”. To put it another way, in an average NFL crowd, the FBI would have us believe that there’s a good 400 terrorists. Back in July, cybersecurity researcher Bob Diachenko found what seemed to be a
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party is pleased to see mandatory scanning being put in place by the Government but the onus shouldn’t be on businesses to enforce it. Businesses have been through enough with multiple lockdowns, as well as a raft of other costs placed on them
Carolyn Wilson-Nash Julie Tinson University of Stirling Carolyn Wilson-Nash completed her PhD from Durham University in 2014 before undertaking a KTP in Digital Health and a Research Associate position for an Innovate UK funded product on FMCG. Julie‘s research considers consumption behaviour associated with consumer socialisation and periods of
Donald Trump is banned from Twitter — the Taliban is not. Think on that: since a famously “progressive” Big Tech company refuses a platform to an American president, but happily plays host to one of America’s most deadly enemies. A prescribed terrorist organisation notorious for its violently non-“progressive” stance
Autumn Johnson newsbusters.org Autumn is a practicing attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games, and spending time with her cats. The Chinese Communist government has taken a stake and board seat in ByteDance, TikTok’
Zachary Silver Jonathan Peng robohub.org Zachary Silver is a High School student studying at Taipei American School in Taiwan. Zachary has been interested in robotics since he was introduced to it as a middle school student, and has created robots to compete in global competitions for the past five
