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Hey there! I have never taken a piece of advice regarding writing that didn’t include some version of this: something specific is required to corner the market before you publish anything. Online harm and hate […]

—- A case study on The Voice of April reveals the power of data behind algorithmic censorship Part 1: Hearing The Voice of April – Do We Really Hear It? On April 22, 2022, a six-minute video titled […]

Have you ever laughed at a meme and then realized that it actually contains denigration of social groups? How do you feel about it? Are you still entertained, or do you feel guilty for laughing? […]

Nowadays, most apps we use will request your data even if you don’t say “yes”, such as turning on data privacy settings by default. From the moment you open the app, you are tracked. You […]

Figure 1: Image from The Conversation (Komesaroff et al., 2023). Introduction Now we have various types of social media platforms such as facebook, youtube, Instagram, WeChat, etc., which allow us to post our comments, posts, […]

Introduction In March 2025, American internet celebrity Speed came to China to broadcast live, and Li Meiyan served as an accompanying interpreter. He caused controversy on the Internet because he repeatedly used the phrase “chick […]

“You are fake news”—these were the words Donald Trump shouted at a CNN journalist in 2017 (Flew, 2021). Since then, the phrase “fake news” has rapidly spread across global social media, and was even named […]