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People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in this illustration picture taken in Warsaw September 27, 2013. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo

Social Media’s Globe-Shaking Power

by Farhad Manjoo | Nov 21, 2016 | Technology

As the technology industry came to grips in the last week with the reality of a presidential election that did not go its way, many in Silicon Valley landed on the idea that widespread misinformation spread online was a primary factor in the race’s outcome. On Monday,...

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Logo of Twitter and Facebook are seen through magnifier on display in this illustration taken in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 16, 2015. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

British Parliament Criticizes Social Media Giants on Fighting Extremism

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 26, 2016 | World

London-A British parliamentary panel has slammed social media networks mainly Facebook and Twitter for not taking extra measures to stop extremists from benefiting from their services. Keith Vaz, chairman of the parliamentary committee, wrote in a report issued on...

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A 3D plastic representation of the Facebook logo is seen in front of displayed logos of social networks in this illustration in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina in this May 13, 2015 file photo. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Files

Iran Rounds up 450 Social Network Users

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 24, 2016 | World

London-Iran has “arrested or summoned” around 450 social media users over their activities on networks including smartphone applications such as Instagram, Telegram and WhatsApp, a website linked to the powerful Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday....

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An illustration picture shows the log-on screen for the website Facebook, in Munich in this February 2, 2012 file photograph. Facebook Inc plans to price its initial public offering at a high-$20s to mid-$30s per-share range in its initial public offering later this month, according to a person familiar with the matter. The price range would value the world’s No. 1 Internet social networking company between $85 billion and $95 billion, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news on May 3, 2012., Reuters

Google, Facebook Quietly Move Towards Censorship of Extremist Videos

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 25, 2016 | Technology

Some of the web’s biggest destinations for watching videos have quietly started using automation to remove extremist content from their sites, according to two people familiar with the procedure. The move is a major step forward for internet companies that are...

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The ‘Journalism and Twitter’ Controversy

by Salman Al-dossary | May 25, 2016 | Opinion

It is an argument never appeased nor settled, and perhaps it would take mankind long before breaking free from this everlasting controversy. Press on one side of the scale and social media weighing up the other; as if those two mediums were created to remain...