Users are turning into amateur sleuths amid a muddied digital landscape, always on the search for the “real” truth. — Extremists, conspiracy theorists, and hate groups have dozens of strategies to spread their message online, and most of us have seen them a time or two. …

Memes are not just funny images; they pack a lot of emotional baggage into one cultural “unit.” — Memes, the bringers of cute cat images and part of the standard Internet lexicon, are now weapons in an ideological war, where social media is the battlefield. This new phenomenon, memetic warfare, has already had consequences on political climates around the world. Memetic warfare is a type of disinformation where…

Terms of Service (ToS): the contracts we all agree to, but never read. In fact, 91% of people in the United States simply click “I agree” without scrolling through these obscure contracts. A ToS agreement is simply a legal contract between a user and a service provider, like a website…

Don’t forget to check out Part 1! $3 billion dollars. That’s how much the top four American philanthropists — Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg — donated in 2019. …

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