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Last week the government published its long-awaited White Paper on Online Harms, proposing that an independent regulator be established to ensure that digital technology companies uphold a duty of care to their users and tackle harmful content on their platforms....
https://demos.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Thirty-years-of-the-WWW.mp4 Today marks the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, and at Demos, we’re celebrating because our research on the web has been at the cutting edge right from the beginning. In the video, our CASM Senior researcher Josh...
By Daniel Alphonsus “Ripping apart the social fabric” and “destroying how society works”. These apocalyptic portrayals of social media were once the dirge of neo-luddites. Today they are the words of Chamath Palihapitiya, a Silicon Valley titan and one of...
It’s exciting as it is daunting to be taking the reins at CASM. It’s also an opportunity to reflect on what exactly our centre is for, as well as say thank you to all the support and wisdom that Jamie,...
For a think-tank like ours, which has always been about getting people actively involved in the decisions that affect their lives, this is of supreme importance. This question has two parts, really. We need to work out how technology can...
In today’s political landscape, online misinformation is treated like any other lie: someone tells a lie, the lie spreads, someone else corrects it, and we all move on. This is most evident in the proposed solutions to the crisis. Tech...
A few days ago, I found myself talking to a woman I had just met, running through a list of facts about her family. The week before, Demos had been challenged by the BBC to find out as much as...
This week the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published their review into political parties’ use of data, along with a £500k fine for Facebook, relating to the Cambridge Analytica data breach. The very short, simplified version is this: most of the...
The day after a report surfaced that one third of revenge porn victims in Britain drop their allegations, Sir Christopher Chope MP singlehandedly blocked a bill aimed at protecting victims of upskirting. Regardless of his intentions, the act was taken...
