This article was originally published on The Indiependent Councillor Brian Tolver wanted the annual Christmas party to be at Pizza Express, but then Jackie Weaver suggested that that might not reflect very well on Handforth Parish Council in the wake of Prince Andrew’s glowing endorsement of the Italian restaurant chain. Scouser Cynthia Samson chimed in … Continue reading This Is How The Handforth Parish Council Christmas Party Would Go Down
This article was originally published on The Indiependent A new report from UN Women shows that COVID-19 has widened the gap between male and female unpaid domestic labour. As positive news about the Pfizer vaccine circulates and the UK looks set to move out of COVID-19’s dark shadow at long last, we cannot let the Coronavirus … Continue reading Women Are Shouldering Unpaid Domestic Work: We Can’t Let Covid-19 Erode Feminist Progress
The ‘misleading’ @CCHQPress account rebrand could have gifted Johnson the election Last Tuesday during the ITV pre-election debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, the Conservative Party renamed the official @CCHQPress Twitter account to ‘factcheckUK’. The party also temporarily replaced its profile picture with a tick logo and a header image with the logo, the text ‘factcheck … Continue reading Conservatives Dominated Twitter at a ‘Crucial’ Time
But now journalists must lobby Facebook to follow suit On Wednesday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the social media platform will no longer accept cash for political or advocacy advertising. The specifics of the policy will be published by Twitter on 15 November, and will be effective from 22 November. It’s a significant move … Continue reading Twitter Takes Accountability for Its Role in Maintaining Democracy
In other words, a fable for the modern age: ‘The Tortoise and the Scare’ Asa society we have never had so much information at our disposal. With the proliferation of disinformation (information that is false and deliberately harmful to a person, social group, organisation or country), the journalist’s ongoing task to cement themselves as a … Continue reading Newsrooms Need To Slow Down In Order To Survive
Finally the social media company puts a foot right in the ongoing battle against fake news and disinformation Facebook plans to use journalists as part of efforts to restore its reputation as a reputable source of information with a new mobile app ‘News Tab’ initiative. What will the ‘News Tab’ involve? The new ‘News Tab’ … Continue reading Facebook Using Human ‘News Tab’ Curators Is Admission Of Editorial Responsibility
The Cambridge Analytica scandal was an inevitable consequence of human egotism In Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2003, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg created an online programme called ‘Facemash’, which allowed users to compare photos of fellow students’ faces and select the one they found more attractive. The programme spread quickly amongst his peers at the university, for … Continue reading Vanity Is At The Root Of Our Global Data Problem
Fake news is being wilfully disseminated by a substantial minority of the population and this is a huge threat to the democratic process. It’s no secret that fake news is making it harder for people to keep up with current affairs. According to a Pew Research study, about two-thirds of Americans said doctored videos and … Continue reading The Deliberate Dissemination of Fake News Is A Democratic Threat
Written for The Telegraph On Thursday 23 June, all across the UK, individuals visited polling stations and put a cross on a slip of ballot paper as they cast their votes in the EU referendum. In the run up to the day, the question of whether or not the UK should remain a member of the European … Continue reading Young people have a right to be angry at Brexit – but not at their parents who voted Leave
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