Social media cannot ensure they only publish truths. But what about deliberate falsehoods designed to damage?Are social media companies responsible for the lies their users tell? Both the obvious answers, “yes” and “no”, are clearly wrong. Complete responsibility is a bad idea, and impossible in practice: even in China, the home of the largest and most sophisticated censorship apparatus on the web, the internet is expected to slow down markedly in the coming weeks under the burden of combing through it to ensure that no references to the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre are published. And, as the Chinese example shows, there are also considerable difficulties that arise when any one organisation can decide what counts as truth or falsehood. Yet it can’t be right, either, to say that social media companies have no responsibility to exercise the powers they have to remove obnoxious material from their servers. Videos of murder, child abuse and other horrors are routinely and rightly removed. It will be objected that these are horrible precisely because they are not lies – they record things that really happened. But that doesn’t stand up. It is no defence, either in British law, or in any moral sense, to say that a video of atrocity is faked. If it works as propaganda for jihadis, or for child abusers, it will be censored and its originators punished if that’s possible.The platforms have been much more reluctant to act against lies which promote causes... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2019-05-27 17:25:07 UTC ]
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Social media firm announces deal after long-running battle with national and regional newspapers France has hailed a victory in its long-running quest for fairer action from tech companies after Facebook reached an agreement with a group of national and regional newspapers to pay for content... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-10-21 14:21:02 UTC ]
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Desmond Shum describes how he turned access into wealth — until his wife’s arrest. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-10-15 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookouture is expanding its editorial team with a promotion for Ellen Gleeson and the hiring of Headline’s Jess Whitlum-Cooper and Susannah Hamilton from Corvus. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-13 13:44:12 UTC ]
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The audio version of an in-depth article on how science fiction’s hopes and fears can inspire humanity’s response to the climate crisis. Continue reading at The Conversation
[ The Conversation | 2021-10-11 09:13:49 UTC ]
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Steven Pinker offers hope that rationality can return to personal and civic life. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-10-08 12:00:00 UTC ]
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The latest book by award-winning non-fiction writer Thomas Harding is a searing account of an 1823 uprising that changed the discourse around slavery Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-07 23:29:15 UTC ]
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We’ll get into why Facebook saw its entire business fall off a cliff on Monday, but first: e-readers.It’s a device category we don’t see much development in — probably because it’s very much a device for reading text and not much else. Amazon’s Kindle, thanks to its powerful online e-book store,... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2021-10-06 11:15:08 UTC ]
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At Time, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers discusses his newest novel, Bewilderment, which is set during a period that resembles our own—but not quite. ” I was thinking a little bit along the lines of the form that science fiction writers like to call the ‘near-term future,'” Powers... Continue reading at The Millions
[ The Millions | 2021-09-29 20:30:41 UTC ]
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“Thao,” “Otto: A Palindrama,” “My Monster Moofy” and “The Wordy Book” explore myriad worlds within words. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2021-09-24 17:09:23 UTC ]
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“Bewilderment,” longlisted for a National Book Award, follows a widower desperate to help his neurodivergent son. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-09-21 15:24:56 UTC ]
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The Pulitzer Prize winner’s latest book, “Bewilderment,” features a widowed father whose troubled son is transformed by a novel neurofeedback therapy with profound implications for the human race. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2021-09-21 09:00:08 UTC ]
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His book laments the court’s declining legitimacy but denies that partisanship is to blame. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-09-17 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Ahead of October's Frankfurt Conference, Richard Charkin looks at open access: 'Let us not write off the traditional subscription model.' The post Richard Charkin: An Heretical View of Academic Publishing appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-09-16 13:08:14 UTC ]
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Far too many times, I’ve been in a bookshop or a school and heard adults persuade a child away from a picture book and encouraged them to read ‘something more appropriate’. There’s a huge notion in this country that picture books are for younger children and a step into ‘proper reading’. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-13 08:06:26 UTC ]
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Decision rejecting appeal in Voller defamation case means companies will be likely to ban comments on more social media postsGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingSome of Australia’s biggest media companies have lost a bid in the high court to escape liability for defamatory... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-09-08 03:33:03 UTC ]
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These bibliomemoirs, including The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe, offer a glimpse into the lives of fellow book lovers, reminding us how vast the bookish community is. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2021-08-30 10:37:00 UTC ]
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Ingram’s Peter McCarthy will join BookMachine’s editorial board next year to lead its marketing stream. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-27 03:16:23 UTC ]
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Old Barn Books will publish author Lisa Fuller's "powerful" YA debut Ghost Bird in the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-25 13:08:09 UTC ]
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Alexandra Brodsky told HuffPost about her new book "Sexual Justice," which explores sexual violence and deeply rooted misunderstandings about due process. Continue reading at The Huffington Post
[ The Huffington Post | 2021-08-24 12:00:04 UTC ]
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Headline's Kate Byrne has been promoted to editorial director with immediate effect, and is to take on the responsibility for the Headline Accent imprint, alongside Headline Eternal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-17 03:38:21 UTC ]
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