Tag: social media
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Cypriot consciousness and online spaces: can we dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools?
ESSAY Audre Lorde once professed that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house”. Indeed, as an abolitionist, I believe that the state and all its wings of carceral violence (prisons, immigration detention centres, policing) must be dismantled for liberation to be possible. Funds, resources and energy must be funnelled away from these oppressive…
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Social media and the government: the fight against fake news in Serbia
REPORT During the summer, Facebook arrived in Serbia. To help prevent the spreading of false information on their platform, they employed third-party fact-checkers. Journalists from Istinomer and Agence France Presse (Serbia) factcheck likely false content on Facebook on a daily basis to help fight increasing disinformation. Today, fake news is all over the internet – this…
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