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‘The safest place in the world to go online’. This is the ambition for the UK, set out by the Government in the 2019 Online...

The idea began light-heartedly – it was an opportunity to road-test the real-time rapid response capabilities of our social media analysis software and methodologies, by...

In the natural world, earthquakes function to dissipate the pressure building up between opposing tectonic plates. In the political world, however, it seems that every...

On the evening of Wednesday 12th June, Sky hosted The Battle for Number 10, broadcast live from Grimsby. The programme saw Keir Starmer and Rishi...

Since the first Tweet was sent in 2006, Twitter has become the mouthpiece of almost 650 million users: a sizeable digital chorus with eyes and...

General election campaigns are a fertile time for social media research. In the run-up to election day, online platforms become battlegrounds, with candidates, commentators and...

Pundits frequently discuss the rise of radical politics in the UK but one underexplored question is what accounts for the recent demise of two such...

Today, people across the UK have been forced offline, as Virgin Media customers have been hit with their third internet outage. Reactions of horror followed...

Last week the ONS published new statistics about employment and jobs in the UK – the first time for a number of months due to...

With Theresa May speaking at the UN this week, the subject of extremist use of the web is back in the headlines. This follows Tuesday’s...