The University of British Columbia TikTok has acquired more than one billion monthly users in just five years, but the influential video-sharing app remains one of the least studied social media platforms around. Researchers at UBC’s faculty of medicine want to change that.
The tech giants are facing immense scrutiny around targeted online advertising, data privacy and spread of misinformation on their respective platforms.
Fall 2021 has been filled with a steady stream of media coverage arguing that Meta’s Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram social media platforms pose a threat to users’ mental health and well-being, radicalize, polarize users and spread misinformation. Are these technologies – embraced by billions – killing people and eroding democracy? Or is this just another moral panic?
SINGAPORE – Disinformation is a pernicious threat that is hard to neutralise once falsehoods are propagated. “Falsehoods can be exaggerated and sensational, baiting persons to pass on the falsehood to their own little social circles,” said Mr Desmond Tan, Minister of State for Home Affairs, and Sustainability and the Environment.
The Northern Daily Leader Water seems to have grown into one of those topics you don’t discuss at dinner parties, joining religion and politics, but if common sense and the facts prevailed in public discourse then water and its many uses would not be nearly as controversial.
