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Questions tagged [social-media]
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Did 150,000 people march against Muslim Immigration in Poland?
The following video was posted on the Facebook page of Milo Yiannopoulos.
The video has the following text:
150,000 MARCHED AGAINST MUSLIM IMMIGRATION IN POLAND
BUT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA DID NOT COVER IT
So is it true that 150,000 people in Poland…
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Are Facebook Likes similar to cocaine addiction?
The Financal Times reports:
Dopamine jolt behind internet addiction
The effect on the brain is similar to what makes drug addicts reuse cocaine
Kristen Lindquist, professor of psychology at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, says social…
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Did Facebook ads significantly influence voting behaviour in the 2016 presidential election?
There have been significant concerns in some political groups about foreign interference via social media on many recent elections. But there seems to be little hard evidence that any content on social media has any significant influence on the way…
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Are scammers using social media fake-news sharing behaviour to identify and target gullible people?
In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal I remember hearing - likely in an interview in a BBC Radio4 programme on the topic (unfortunately I don't recall more than that) - a claim that scammers were using past sharing behaviour on social…
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Do 82% of women making $100K per year in the US do it through home based businesses?
See this on social media every now and then. Any truth to it?
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What role did Facebook/Twitter play in the "Arab Spring"?
Many media reports say that Twitter and Facebook played critical roles in the so-called Arab Spring. However, I find it hard to believe this, and I really haven't seen any concrete examples of how Facebook/Twitter started/caused/significantly…
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Is social media bad for the mental health of youth?
Multiple sources have blamed on social media for having (or potentially having) negative impact on mental state of young people. To name few:
NPR writes
SEATTLE — The public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against the tech…
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Does China censor online discussions of female orgasms?
A Washington Post article describes how people in China were recently discussing certain taboo subjects using the Clubhouse app:
They asked questions about the protests in Hong Kong, reports of mass detentions of Uighurs in the western region of…
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Are the "DHSC Communications Team" using bots to flood social media with posts showing NHS workers supportive of government policy?
The image below seems to be circulating on Facebook along with a text
To give you an idea of the times we are living in, Twitter has been
flooded with hundreds of new accounts today.
All have the NHS tag and a picture of a Nurse or doctor. All…
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Is British MP and Brexit campaigner Jacob Rees-Mogg receiving support on social media from known Kremlin networks?
This article, which is being linked and shared on Facebook, claims that British MP and Brexit campaigner Jacob Rees-Mogg is receiving support on social media from known Kremlin networks.
Analysis of social media traffic between January and February…
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Can 100 bicycles be made from the materials used to build one car?
I found this tweet from Greenpeace Colombia which says:
(In Spanish):
Con los materiales usados para hacer un auto se hacen 100 bicicletas.
(Translated):
The materials used to build one car could make 100 bicycles
Screenshot of the original…
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Were 400 people arrested in Russia for social media posts in 2018?
In a 2019 interview John Anderson interviewed Konstantin Kisin (excerpt, original video). The discussion is transcribed by the OP of Were over 3000 persons arrested in Britain for social media posts in 2018?. I is the interviewer and K is for…
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Was the "Do So" movement orchestrated by Cambridge Analytica and is it responsible for the results of the Trinidad and Tobago election?
The Great Hack is a documentary which, among other things, claims that SCL Group (which the now-infamous Cambridge Analytica is a subsidiary of) worked for the United National Congress (UNC) in Trinidad and Tobago and successfully helped them win…
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Was—or is?—there an ICE checkpoint at the 23rd Street N/Q/R/W subway station in Manhattan?
All around social media this past Tuesday in New York City a viral message claiming there was an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "checkpoint” at the 23rd Street N/Q/R/W subway station in Manhattan. For example this tweet states the…
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Is the "Most people are sheep" video genuine?
On August 30, 2016, Anonymous posted a "quite disturbing" video of a young woman caving in to herd behavior by standing up whenever a random beep was heard in the waiting area of an eye exam office ("Xenia eye clinic"). The video went viral on…
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