Since the early days of the web, and even more so with the advent of social media, there has been widespread talk of the promise of a horizontal world, free from traditional hierarchies, where speech would flow freely and whose foundations would be trust and recognition. Everyone would be able to speak out, be heard, influence and weigh in on public or internal debates, without any authority filtering or organizing the exchanges. The web, and then social networks, would have achieved what decades of sociology and democratic demands had failed to...
To say that today there is a phenomenon of mistrust towards social networks is an understatement. They frighten, worry, and even make people feel rejected, whether...
This has been a controversial topic since Mark Zuckerberg changed the rules of meta moderation, and the recent tensions between Europe and the United...
Mark Zuckerberg's recent announcement of the end of moderation at META has unsurprisingly generated a lot of ink and sometimes shocked reactions. But for...
The Internet and social networks offer an infinite space for expression, and have stimulated the production of information to an extent that was unimaginable before...