Dark, toxic corners of the InternetDigitally Lit #196 – 5/4/2019 Hi all, my name is Ian O’Byrne and welcome to Digitally Literate. In this newsletter, I try to synthesize what happened this week so you can be digitally literate as well. I posted a couple of things this week: Putting down your phone may help…
Taylor Lorenz on the horrific mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. In the hours after the horrific mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, people desperately searched the internet for any sign of a motive or meaning behind the attack. Early Friday, a number of unverified social-media posts surfaced, along…
Thread by @NoTotally: “Facebook’s hands-off stand on Holocaust-deniers is a good opportunity to think about the “marketplace of ideas” concept and how it’s used to […]”