by Chris Walker | Oct 6, 2026 | Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Democracy, Internet, News, Pew Research Center, Polls, Social Media
New polling indicates that nearly two-thirds of Americans believe social media has had a negative effect on democracy. In an international poll published by Pew Research last week, only 34 percent of Americans said they believe social media has had a positive impact on democracy, while 64 percent said the advent of social media has been a bad thing for democracy. Sixty-eight percent of…
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by Omar Zahzah | Apr 19, 2026 | big tech, Book Excerpt, censorship, Excerpt, Internet, Israel, Media, Palestine, Social Media, Surveillance
An outgrowth of the counter-revolutionary Oslo Accords, the Palestinian internet digitally encapsulates the contradictions of anti-colonial resistance in the neoliberal era. As such, the internet today is both an instrument for collective interconnection to Palestinian revolutionary history and struggle as well as a site of suppression and surveillance. As Miriyam Aouragh writes in Palestine…
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