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Policing on-line hate from within a single platform, such as Facebook, can make the spread of hate worse, and will eventually generate global ‘dark pools’ in which hate will flourish, is one of the findings the finding in a recent scientific paper in Nature. The paper was written after analysis using a “first of its kind” mapping technique, according to ...

Divisions in society were made worse by hoards of automated software ‘bots’ in the days preceding the Catalan independence referendum last year, according to Italian and US researchers who analysed four million contemporary tweets from one million twitter users. At times, over 23% of posts were by bots, and Twitter ‘replies’ by bots peaked at 38.8% of total reply traffic. The ...

The Tories lost the cyberspace battle in the general election, says social media agency We Are Social. Across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, Labour increased its following by 61% during the campaign, while the Tories following went up 6%, said the agency. There were reports that the Tories used the technique allegedly pioneered by Cambridge Analytica to use Facebook to send ...

The Turkish Prime Minister closed down Twitter and YouTube and threatened to close Facebook, notes David Manners. Just as there is debate about how much surveillance of citizens should be permitted, so there should be a debate about whether constitutional curbs should be put on politicians that will make it impossible, or very difficult, for them to arbitrarily close web sites. ...

Is the twitter feed so annoying to engineers because it has become hi-jacketed by corporate releases and website news feeds?

I am interested in social networking. More specifically, I am interested in how engineers are networking through online forums and blogs to gain and share technical data.