Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values and emotional states. It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines verified news sources ...

Social democracy is a political, economic and social system that combines the principles of a free market economy with the values of social justice. This was my topic a week ago. However, I noticed ...

Tama Leaver receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child. Meta’s Instagram and Threads apps are “slowly” ...

Countries where democracy is in trouble share a common pattern, and it’s a worrying one for the United States. Credit...Photo illustration by Ricardo Tomás Supported by By Amanda Taub Amanda Taub ...

Former Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C., checks his Facebook page in his office in July 2011. (Bill Clark/Roll Call) Americans are more critical than people in any other country surveyed by Pew Research ...

There was a time when politics was simply a struggle for power, especially in the Philippines. Political parties in this country had no ideology at all. This is one of the root causes of corruption ...

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