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Tech blogger Jane Manchun Wong, who is known for reverse engineering apps to find hidden features, revealed on Monday that she had come across a tiered warning label system that Twitter is toying with, apparently in an effort to expand its crackdown on ‘misinformation’.  According to Wong, Twitter could potentially …

A member of the Bundestag from Die Linke (The Left), Diether Dehm, and the spokesman for the party’s parliamentary faction, Michael Schlick, attended the Victory Day parade in Moscow, held annually on May 9. It’s not the first time that the two politicians have taken part in the commemoration of …

In an era where humans are hamstrung by fear of bias, it’s easier to delegate certain tasks to computers, especially if the task is particularly trying or difficult. Certainly it’s hard to believe a seemingly-impartial silicon chip could be anything other than immune to the social pressures of human interaction …

The premise of the study was simple: some 1,500 participants were shown photos and asked to count the number of people in them.  The participants were able to take suggestions from a computer algorithm or the averages of guesses from their fellow humans in order to complete the task, which …

The latest figures, published on Thursday, come from a study by the Levada Center, a Moscow-based pollster and registered foreign agent. It revealed that, out of 1,850 doctors questioned, almost seven out of 10 had faith in the vaccine, with 38% saying they had been vaccinated themselves. Another 31% said …

In his first address as president on Thursday evening, Biden demanded Americans follow advice from scientists, who he said “have made clear that things may get worse again” as new strains of the virus spread. “But to get there we can’t let our guard down. This fight is far from …

Promising to “shoot straight” with his audience, Cuomo finally acknowledged the numerous scandals plaguing his brother Andrew Cuomo’s administration on Monday evening.  “Obviously I am aware of what’s going on with my brother,” he said. “And obviously I can’t cover it because he is my brother.”  Cuomo promised his network …

Groucho Marx once said he’d never join a club that would have him as a member.  And, if he were alive today, that’d probably include the new social media app, Clubhouse.  Touted as the digital equivalent of Soho House, where luvvie communists become elitists via expensive memberships, it’s now the …

Published by the Global Voices international reporting project – which is funded by Western NGOs – on Wednesday, researchers from Moscow’s Levada Center and Kiev’s Institute of Sociology found that those in the rebel-held Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk (DNR/LNR) said their local authorities were doing a good job. Around 26 …

Speaking on Tuesday, Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi told Sky News that the government is battling fake news, which appears to be disproportionately impacting vaccine uptake among ethnic minority groups.  There is a tsunami of disinformation, misinformation, which we have a unit across government that is dealing with the technology platforms …