The danger of Facebook is becoming one of its useds. The principal danger of Instagram, by contrast, is becoming an influenced.

Aside from that, it accumulates personal data about everyone that posts there. Does it get personal data about people that only look at postings? I don't know, but I suspect so.

The Democrat-Reporter, an Alabama newspaper, published an editorial calling for reviving the KKK, and was rebuked. Now it has a new editor: a black woman, Elecia Dexter.

The article says it is not clear whether the old owner sold the newspaper (To Ms Dexter? To someone else?), or hired her. I think it is an interesting question.

President Xi's indoctrination app for Chinese people borrows the techniques of commercial social networks to pressure them to immerse themselves for long periods in his propaganda. The aim is to produce a nation of Xip.

Sale of dinosaur fossils to non-scientists is causing science to lose out. Paleontologists have asked for a ban on selling them to collectors.

US citizens: call on Congress to pass the BE HEARD in the Workplace Act.

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