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Finalmente, Facebook can say it’s not the most toxic social network
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By rights, these should really be what we might euphemise as Donald Trump’s “hidden years”. Though he might not have been expected to descend immediately to full late-era Howard Hughes – four-inch fingernails and tiss...
With Covid infections rising, the Tories are conducting a deadly social experiment
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A pandemic is a political event. It exposes who is vulnerable and who can afford to escape, who is prioritised for treatment and who is neglected. The politics of a pandemic are both large-scale and intensely personal...
A ‘non-cancellable’ community: the ‘truth’ about Trump’s social media platform
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The TRUTH is out there, according to known factualness provider Donald Trump. On Wednesday the former president, who has been banned from the major social media platforms since January, announced that he will be launc...
Love and Virtue by Diana Reid review – sex, shame and the social minefields of campus life
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Set on the campus of a prestigious university in Sydney, Diana Reid’s debut novel Love and Virtue is told through the dry and witty perspective of Michaela, a first-year undergrad student who is living on a scholarshi...
Donald Trump to launch social media platform called Truth Social
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Donald Trump has announced plans to launch a social media platform called TRUTH Social that will rolled be out early next year. The former president, who was banned from Facebook and Twitter earlier this year, says h...
Social mobility tsar wants campaign against toddlers having mobile phones
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The government’s new social mobility commissioner has told MPs she wants to launch a nationwide campaign telling parents not to give their toddlers a mobile phone to play with because it will make reading harder for t...
My impulse to surf with strangers from the internet was a social experiment gone very right
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I learned to surf in California, and continued to develop after moving to Hawaii. By the time I left, moving back to Sydney during Covid, I could still pull off a sweet wave, even where the big boys surfed. At least o...
PM urged to enact ‘David’s law’ against social media abuse after Amess’s death
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Boris Johnson is facing calls to enact “David’s law” to crack down on social media abuse of public figures and end online anonymity in the wake of the killing of Sir David Amess. Dozens of MPs paid tribute in the Hous...
Non unire l'assistenza sociale e il SSN
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Unire il SSN e l'assistenza sociale è una pessima idea (“Sajid Javid al lavoro su un piano radicale per integrare l'assistenza sociale con la salute”, notizia). Migliore integrazione, sì, fusione, no. Il tuo articolo dice che il piano "ammonterebbe ...
‘Give people money and they’re no longer poor, it’s not rocket science’: Sammy Wright of the Social Mobility Commission
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Two teenagers are curled up on a sofa, asleep in each other’s arms. On the kitchen floor close by, an adult lies in a pool of blood. Soon the police will be on their way and the siblings, who were abused and neglected...
‘It sounded crazy’: palatial six-storey hymn to social interaction is Britain’s best new building
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After more than a year of Zoom tutorials and online lectures, students are back learning face to face – and nowhere more so than at Kingston University’s Town House, a cathedral of social interaction that has been nam...
TechScape: UK online safety bill could set tone for global social media regulation
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Even before the arrival of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, social media companies were feeling the heat from regulators and politicians. It is white-hot now. We were well past the tipping point of mild concern ...
Social media bringing antisemitic ideas to new generation, il rapporto dice
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A new generation of users of “younger” social media platforms such as TikTok are being introduced to antisemitic ideas they would be unlikely to encounter elsewhere, warns a report. The research comes amid warnings th...
The Guardian view on social mobility: don’t turn it into a culture war
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At least the government knows that it has a social mobility problem. This is to look on the bright side of the announcement that the controversial headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh is its newly appointed commissioner....
Mo Gilligan review – expert social anthropology from the boy next door
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When you get rich and famous for your relatable comedy, how do you stay relatable? It’s a perennial problem, but Mo Gilligan dodges it, at least for now, in There’s Mo to Life. That’s because this megastar-cum-lately,...
Sajid Javid working on radical plan to merge social care with health in England
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Radical plans for a new national care service under which health and social care would be delivered by the same organisation are being actively considered by the government for inclusion in a white paper next month, un...