How TikTok became a breeding ground for hate speech in the latest Malaysia general election
Hate speech on social media is a major issue across many regions of the world, including Southeast Asia.
Hate speech on social media is a major issue across many regions of the world, including Southeast Asia.
Social Sciences
Mar 23, 2023
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The Association for Computing Machinery's global Technology Policy Council (TPC) has released "Election Security: Risk-Limiting Audits." It is the latest in a series of ACM TechBriefs—short technical bulletins that present ...
Political science
Oct 13, 2022
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Along-standing theorem in the study of American politics holds that candidates will run to the middle in an attempt to win support from the average voter.
Mathematics
Mar 22, 2022
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Online misinformation works, or so it would seem. One of the more interesting statistics from the 2019 UK general election was that 88% of advertisements posted on social media by the Conservative Party pushed figures that ...
Social Sciences
Jan 13, 2020
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Up to 800,000 hectares of the unique Chiquitano forest were burned to the ground in Bolivia between August 18 and August 23. That's more forest than is usually destroyed across the country in two years. Experts say that it ...
Environment
Aug 26, 2019
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Poland's parliament on Friday adopted measures to compensate its industry struggling to cope with surging electricity bills triggered by higher EU carbon emission costs.
Environment
Jul 19, 2019
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Research carried out by the University of Kent and Kings College London (KCL) into a common postal vote recruitment tactic found it to be ineffective in persuading people to change from visiting polling stations to vote.
Social Sciences
Apr 25, 2019
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With the growing popularity of social media, Twitter has become a prominent place to voice opinions on both ends of the political spectrum. With the ability to follow those who only argue one side, voices of people who are ...
Social Sciences
Apr 3, 2019
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Abuse of politicians online increased substantially in the snap 2017 general election compared to the 2015 general election, according to new research by the University of Sheffield.
Social Sciences
Aug 30, 2018
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The hugely popular WhatsApp messaging service began a week-long publicity campaign in Pakistan Wednesday offering tips to spot fake news, days before the country holds a general election.
Internet
Jul 18, 2018
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