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Why US Will Need Your Social Media Details Before Issuing Visas

The US state department has revealed that US visa applicants will need to submit their social media usernames, previous email addresses and phone numbers as part...

5G: the real reason behind US attacks on Huawei

The US government argues that Huawei has built “backdoors” in the technology Last night the US Justice Department announced criminal charges against Chinese telecommunications company...

The most popular image on Instagram

The most popular image on Instagram World Record Egg is now the most popular image on Instagram. View this post on Instagram Let’s set a world record together and get the most liked post on Instagram. Beating the current world record held by Kylie Jenner (18 million)! We got this #LikeTheEgg #EggSoldiers #EggGang A post shared by EGG GANG (@world_record_egg) on Jan 4, 2019 at 9:05am PST On 4th January 2019, an anonymous group posted a picture of an egg with the intention of surpassing the most popular Instagram post of all time. The previous record was held by a picture of Kylie Jenner’s baby. View this post on Instagram stormi webster A post shared by Kylie (@kyliejenner) on Feb 6, 2018 at 1:14pm PST Ten days later, on January 14th, world_record_egg’s first and only picture reached 18.2 million likes to catapult it into first place. By the time of the writing, the Egg had harnessed +33 million likes and climbing. Kylie Jenner noticed the new kid in town… View this pos..

Meeting Kosovo’s clickbait merchants

Two weeks ago, I was sitting in a dark bar in a small town an hour's drive from Kosovo's capital, Pristina. In front of...

Diplomacy dies in darkness: Europe and information manipulation

“Information manipulation” or just plain “fake news”? How France is grappling with a very modern threat Whether it is the refugee crisis, Catalonia, or last...

NewsGuard Wants to Fight Fake News With Humans, Not Algorithms

Say you're scrolling through Facebook, see an article that seems a little hinky, and flag it. If Facebook's algorithm has decided you're trustworthy, the...

Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to...

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has begun to assign its users a reputation score, predicting their trustworthiness on a scale from zero to 1. The previously...

Twiplomacy Study 2018

Executive Summary All the world’s atwitter! Or almost. Ninety-seven percent of all 193 UN member states have an official presence on the platform. The governments...

Fake terror attacks: why are the frightening pranks going viral?

It sounds like another terrifying story of insurgent terrorism in the Middle East: on Tuesday, men dressed in the black garb of the Islamic...

Nikki Haley’s Twitter account raises protocol concerns

Ever since she took over as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley’s personal Twitter account has been an object of fascination...