Wired UKSection 230 (CDA) Trump’s feud with Twitter might change the internet as we know it Wired UK - Gian Volpicelli Twitter / WIRED Donald Trump should be careful what he wishes for. He wants to do away with Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a piece of …
Wired UKMedia Industry This little-known company is killing fake social media accounts Wired UK - Sabrina Weiss On 17 April 2018, Starbucks announced it would close 8,000 US stores for an afternoon, to allow its 175,000 employees to undergo racial-bias …
Wired UKVaping There's a suspicious pro-vaping campaign targeting Donald Trump on Twitter Wired UK - Will Bedingfield A coordinated, inauthentic social media campaign has been explicitly targeting key US policymakers in an attempt to force them to withdraw plans for …
Wired UKDogs Unsolicited Dog Pics is the one Twitter account you want sliding into your DMs Wired UK - Cian Maher Venturing into an inbox teeming with unsolicited messages from people you don’t know can be an unsettling experience. The internet is a shady place …
Wired UKTesla Model 3 Inside the obsessive Twitter turf war over Elon Musk's Tesla tweets Wired UK - Amit Katwala Every Elon Musk tweet is a new front in a bitter social media war. On one side are the Tesla fanatics, who hang on the billionaire owner and CEO’s …
Wired UKUK Politics How the viral Led by Donkeys anti-Brexit campaign is haunting flip-flopping politicians Wired UK - Will Bedingfield Jiri Rezac/ Led By Donkeys On a weekend that featured an array of aesthetically creative Brexit protest signs, the most memorable was perhaps the …
Wired UKReality TV How the Notes app became our most private and public space Wired UK - Louis Staples If you want to stare into the deepest depths of my soul, you’ll find it in the iPhone Notes app. Tucked between Hayu – the streaming app I use to …
Wired UK Twitter is hiding Likes and RTs because it wants you to tweet more Wired UK - Victoria Turk There’s a new version of Twitter. Sort of. This week, Twitter launched a prototype app for initial select users to test. The app, called “Twttr” in …
Wired UK Five of the top far-right figures are British. We're world leaders in hate Wired UK - Will Bedingfield Getty Images Five of the world's top ten far-right activists on the internet are British, a new report into online extremism has found. Milo …
Wired UK How an army of farcical fakes ruined Turning Point UK's big day Wired UK - Gian Volpicelli Ron Sachs/DPA/PA Images The launch of the UK branch of American rightwing student organisation Turning Point USA has descended into a slapdash farce …
Wired UK A huge study into the impact of fake news has surprising results Wired UK - Sanjana Varghese MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images Any hope of ever understanding the spread and influence of fake news looks a long way off. After months of research, one …