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WhatsApp  is imposing additional restriction on how frequently a message can be shared on its platform in its latest effort to curtail the spread of…

Your phone is dirty. That’s not an opinion, it’s a fact. According to a Seattle Times article, the average toilet seat has 1,201 bacteria per…

With WhatsApp awash with forwarded rumours and disinformation relating to the coronavirus pandemic, Facebook has launched a new advice hub. WhatsApp…

SAN FRANCISCO: Uber on Tuesday (Mar 17) began suspending shared rides on its ride-hailing platform in the United States and Canada to limit the…

A Reddit user who posted leaked UK government documents was part of a larger coordinated effort that appears to have originated in Russia, Reddit…

As of July 2018, dozens of mob lynchings sparked by rumors – many about child abduction – that had been spread virally on social media had led to 33…

After the driver of a speeding bus ran over and killed two college students in Dhaka in July, student protesters took to the streets. They forced the…

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers Researchers investigating the use of Twitter to propagate or debunk conspiracy theories related to the…

Scientists have used artificial intelligence to predict how cancers will progress and evolve, which could help doctors design the most effective…

Here’s the $64,000 question for our time: how did digital technologies go from being instruments for spreading democracy to tools for undermining it?…