Social media
A new study shows how machine-learning methods could examine your friends’ past tweets to accurately predict your future behavior online.
A new report says there’s not as much evidence of physical harm as you might think.
How you feel influences what you watch, and vice-versa.
Swipe right to make the connections that could change your career.
This is the most talked about Big Think video of 2018! What’s your take?
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The social media company has long been expected to make a move into blockchain.
An exhaustive report from The New York Times shows the alarming extents to which Facebook has been sharing user data.
The most powerful editors in the world? Algorithms.
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The Belgian psychotherapist has a lot to teach us.
Jewish people living in nearly all European countries report that anti-Semitism has grown in recent years.
Who would have thought that endlessly comparing your life to others would make you feel bad?
Opinion ruined journalism and Facebook killed truth—but there’s a way to make it right.
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Researchers find out why some people believe utter BS.
Being raised indoors might be the reason young Americans struggle in the adult world.
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Delay, deny and deflect were the strategies Facebook has used to navigate scandals it’s faced in recent years, according to the New York Times.
Journalism got a big wake up call in 2016. Can we be optimistic about the future of media?
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The impact of abusive comments is “significant.”
Build up, tear down—new technology stirs up a cycle of progress and cynicism we’ve seen all throughout history.
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Christine Lagorio-Chafkin spent six years writing the definitive history of Reddit.
Why virtue signaling does nothing.
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Should kids be on social media? If yes, what are some good rules to have?
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For the first time in Facebook’s history, the number of daily active users in the U.S. dropped—by about 700,000.
We’ve got the biggest comments. The best comments. You’re going to have such good comments that you’re going to be sick of how good these comments are. Believe me.
The internet and social media have made persuasive appeals more powerful than ever before.
Pope Francis’ 2018 World Communications Day message explains the dangers of fake news and what journalists and the public must do to combat it.
The social media behemoth wants you to use their platform less, not more, than before.
While it can often be tempting to unfollow friends who have differing political views than you, one philosopher tells us why we should embrace, rather than shun, such challenges to our worldviews.
Why do you check your phone 150 times a day? Is it a conscious choice, or have the attention merchants gotten into your head?
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