The use of algorithms to disseminate targeted or manipulative social-media messages demonstrates how these technologies can be weaponized for ideological purposes. In a context where governments ...

Alicia Preston Xanthopoulos is a former political consultant and member of the media. She’s a native of Hampton Beach where she lives with her family and two poodles. Write to her at ...

Dead Internet Theory explains why online networks feel empty and how algorithms replace human connection, teaching us to ...

Patients waiting for NHS weight loss jabs are buying potentially unsafe jabs online or from gyms and beauty salons ...

It started as a lark. Your wife, sitting up in bed one evening, said that she was going to photograph the chickens and put them on Instagram. Or the barn conversion. The house you inherited that she ...

Republican Mike Johnson narrowly won reelection Friday to the House speakership on a first ballot, overcoming hard-right GOP ...

Republican Mike Johnson won reelection to the House speakership on a first ballot Friday, pushing past GOP hard-right ...

Beyond laws, society must cultivate both physical and digital spaces for inclusive, civil discourse among its citizens.

He died aged just 37 on December 30, according to close friend Ricardo Gouvea, following a troubled time that saw him put the ...

First-round balloting is underway at the U.S. Capitol, as the new Congress opened Friday with one major task at hand — the ...

Douglasville resident Courtni Gray said the sound of fireworks filled the air as the clock struck midnight on New Year's. She ...

Military-ruled Myanmar, already notorious for cracking down on free speech, has enacted a new cybersecurity law with wide-ranging controls on the flow of information.