China’s censors raced Friday to scrub social media networks of candles, RIP and other tributes to Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo as they seek to silence discussion about the prominent dissident’s death. The 61-year-old democracy activist died Thursday from liver cancer while under heavy police guard at a hospital in the northeastern city of Shenyang — … Read more
Google is changing the way its core search engine works to help stop the spread of fake news and hate speech. The changes involve different measures for ranking sites and people checking results are accurate. In a blog, Google said the changes should thwart attempts to abuse its algorithms that let extremists promote their content. … Read more
For many of us, our first exposure to pornography was surreptitious: a sneak peek at someone else’s copy of Playboy or the viewing of a worn VHS tape stolen from an older sibling. Today, however, porn is everywhere; anyone can jump online and view it with the few clicks of a keyboard. The numbers are … Read more