The Iranian regime is warning citizens and refugees abroad not to share information or post critical views of the regime to social media. NewsNation’s Diana Falzone explains how the regime’s reach extends beyond Iran.
A specialist British police unit created to track online sentiment has referred more than 100 social media posts to local forces for potential arrest, according […] Source
Social media panic is barely disguised mainstream media self-defense. The post Uh-Oh: The Kids Aren’t Reading the New York Times! appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag Uh-Oh: The Kids Aren’t Reading the New York Times! Social media panic is barely disguised mainstream media self-defense. TakiMag (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Social media has been blamed for transmitting social contagions, which is ironic because the main social contagion right now is the idea that social media is bad for you. Even people who are happily online 14 hours a day feel the need to apologize, as if they’re admitting to being a heroin addict. The New York Times recently published an op-ed titled, “The Way to Get Kids Off Screens ” that entirely dispensed with the “Why should we?” part of the argument. Times readers, not exactly free thinkers, were right on board. From the comments section:…Open
State of the Union: France will move to ban social media for under-15s and expand platform regulation. The post Macron on Tech Companies: “Free Speech Is Pure Bulls**t” appeared first on The American Conservative .
Speaking in New Delhi on Wednesday, France’s President Emmanuel Macron criticized social media companies over their pledged commitments to free speech and lack of algorithm transparency. “Some of them claim to be in favor of free speech. We are in favor of free algorithms, totally transparent,” Macron said. “Free speech is pure bulls**t if nobody knows how you are guided to this so-called free speech.” The remarks come as Macron and his government move to expand regulation of social media platforms in France. Paris is seeking to fast-track legislation that would ban social media access for children under 15 before the start of the next school year, alongside a planned prohibition on mobile phone use in French high schools…Open
