26 h. ago Twitter: Breaking the Bird shows how the internet’s hottest website grew into a social media skip fire

The feature-length documentary, released on BBC Two and iPlayer, digs into the story of a concerning modern phenomenon

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33 h. ago Twitter: Breaking the Bird review – how all the hate speech flooded in

This film shows how a ‘hallucinogenically optimistic’ vision descended into the hellscape we know today. Young, confident men really should not rule the internet It turns out that Mike Judge’s supposed sitcom Silicon Valley was a documentary after all. My bad, as the people young and in touch enough with the world to have known this all along may still say.Twitter: Breaking the Bird is a 75-minute CNN film chronicling the rise, fall and possibly end of the social media site that was launched by a group of eager young things in 2006 amid a widespread belief – at least in the Valley – in the power of the internet to remake the world in radically better ways. This, a co-founder or two has come to consider since, may have been a “hallucinogenically optimistic” view. Well, we were all young once. Although that feels – and in no small measure because of Twitter – like a very long time ago. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago WHSmith to sell all 500 high street stores after agreeing huge £76million deal

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5 d. ago BREAKING: Twitter down as X users can't access Elon Musk's app or website in their thousands

Thousands of Twitter/X users have reported being unable to access Elon Musk's social media app and website - This is a breaking news story, please refresh for updates

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5 d. ago Twitter down as X users can't access Elon Musk's app or website in their thousands

Thousands of Twitter/X reported being unable to access Elon Musk's social media app and website this evening - users complained of not being able to access the social media app from 7pm

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5 d. ago Sky to axe 2,000 customer service centre jobs in major restructure

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6 d. ago The country that has banned Facebook overnight to stop ‘hate speech and porn’

Ban reportedly enforced without informing country’s own IT regulator

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7 d. ago Violence and sexist harassment against female MPs ‘rife across Asia

Report reveals scale of abuse faced by women in politics from countries including Australia, China, Japan and IndiaSexism, harassment and violence against women are rife in parliaments across the Asia-Pacific region, according to a damning report published on Tuesday that lays bare the scale of abuse faced by women in politics.Based on interviews with 150 female MPs and parliamentary staff across 33 countries across the region – including Australia, Mongolia, India, Indonesia and Micronesia – the study found that 76% of MPs and 63% of staff had experienced psychological gender-based violence, with 60% of MPs saying they had been targeted online by hate speech, disinformation and image-based abuse. An equal number of women were interviewed from each country. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Video games can’t escape their role in the radicalisation of young men | Keith Stuart

Those of us who spend our lives gaming can no longer deny knowledge that our online communities are awash with disturbing hate speech and violent rhetoricThere is a lot of attention on young men and toxic masculinity at the moment. It’s about time. The devastating Netflix drama Adolescence, about a 13-year-old boy accused of murdering a girl after being radicalised by the online manosphere, has drawn attention to the problem through the sheer force of its brilliant writing and a blistering lead performance from teenager Owen Cooper. This week, former England football manager Gareth Southgate gave a speech about the state of boyhood in the UK, specifically about how young men, lacking moral mentors, are turning to gambling and video gaming, thereby disconnecting from society and immersing themselves in predominantly male online communities where misogyny and racism are often rife. There has been some kickback in the gaming press to the idea that games have provided a less-than-ideal ...

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1 week ago Santander to shut 95 bank branches and cut opening times in major shake

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3 w. ago Indonesian TikToker jailed for ‘telling Jesus to cut his hair’

Muslim trans woman convicted of blasphemy and hate speech against Christianity

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3 w. ago Twitter down as Elon Musk's X suffers major outage to users' fury

People have reported X, previously known as Twitter, is down this morning as the app has suffered a major outage to the frustration of would-be users

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3 w. ago Is X down? All we know about Twitter outage as user complaints spike

Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) suffered an outage this morning with users worldwide noting the social media network is out of action — here's all we know

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3 w. ago Minority Rule by Ash Sarkar review: A light in the dark for leftists

There are occasional moments, on social media, that become larger than themselves. It was the intense summer heatwave of 2018, and I had just opened Twitter during the lunch break of my summer job. For a moment, it seemed like there was a glitch – my entire feed was flooded with one video playing on a loop, shared, liked and signal-boosted by hundreds of thousands of people. It showed an exasperated 26-year-old journalist being interviewed about an anti-Trump protest on Good Morning Britain by Piers Morgan, shouting the words that would propel her to fame: “I’m literally a communist, you idiot!”.

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3 w. ago Stephen Colbert on Trump’s speech: ‘Filled with useful lies and applauded by useless idiots’

Late-night hosts discuss Donald Trump’s hate-filled State of the Union speech to Congress and the feckless Democratic responseLate-night hosts recap Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress. Continue reading...

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