Kathmandu, Feb. 23 -- In the month before Nepal's parliamentary elections, popular Facebook pages with a combined six million ...
Messages intended to suppress votes can be precisely delivered to particularly vulnerable and consequential groups of people ...
By Hakan Ersen BERLIN, Feb 18 (Reuters) - A German appeals court has ordered social media platform X to give vetted researchers access to publicly available data linked to Hungary's April 12 election, ...
A new study published in Nature has found that X's algorithm—the hidden system or "recipe" that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order—shifts users' political opinions in a more ...
The making of electoral rolls is designed to be a community exercise that is transparent. This was always a decentralised exercise, with the ERO only responsible for his constituency.
People often blame social media algorithms that prioritize extreme content for increasing political polarization, but this effect has been difficult to prove. Only the platform owners have access to ...
The Bitcoin network took its first step towards quantum-computing resistance with the addition of BIP 360 to its repository.
There has been outrage on social media following the announcement by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that the 2027 general election will hold on February 20 and March 6, 2027.
When 25-year-old author Freya India was working at her local café in London during lockdown, struggling to get any other job after studying politics at King’s, she began noticing a pattern. “Girls ...
Elections need periodic reform to ensure that they have integrity and fulfil their role in line with the times, and the British government has unveiled its proposals for doing jus ...
That language, and the values and hierarchies it entails, has a common root. Whether you know it or not, a significant portion of today’s online lexicon has roots from 4chan, one of the most chaotic ...