by admin | May 22, 2024
Facebook came in for a harsh grilling earlier this year when the CEO of parent company Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, was accused in a US Senate hearing of having ‘blood on his hands’. The reason was the mental health effects linked to the platform’s algorithms.Social media...
by admin | May 16, 2024
In 2022, US courts ordered American talk show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay more than US$1 billion in damages to the parents of several of the 20 children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School by a gunman in 2012. Jones had been claiming online...
by admin | May 16, 2024
Before social media took hold in the late 2000s, traditional newspapers were a key player in the media landscape, but they mainly reported on the movements and activities of government leaders or, if they were commercialised, on entertainment-oriented news....
by admin | May 16, 2024
About 15 years ago, Professor Masato Kajimoto from HKU’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) noticed a worrying trend. Reputable media outlets were publishing stories from social media without checking if they were true – stories such as the rumoured death of...
by admin | May 16, 2024
Which of these is ‘fake news’ – anti-vaxxers posting unfounded stories against COVID-19 vaccines on social media? Or the British newspaper, The Mail on Sunday, publishing a fake article about a climate change study? For Professor Rachel Sterken, Chairperson of...
