According to a 2022 survey from the Pew Research Centre, Americans under 30 are about as likely to trust information on social media as they are to trust national news organisations. More recently Pew found that 32% of those aged 18-29 get their news from TikTok. Social-media sites are rife with conspiracy theories, and research […]
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Businessman, statesman or simply madman?
Elon Musk is a billionaire, that’s for sure, but besides being a no doubt shrewd business man, he also seems to be turning into a politician, expressing his opinions about global issues publicly and some of them being rather controversial. The his comments at a summit in Los Angeles in mid-September, that Taiwan was an […]
How not to manage staff – Lessons from Elon Musk
Elon Musk has told Twitter staff that they must commit to working “long hours at high intensity” or else leave the company, according to reports. And that is after Mr. Musk already sacked half of Twitter’s employees – only to hire some of them a couple of days later after finding out that some of […]
Beware of doxers!
Doxing, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, is ‘the action of finding or publishing private information about someone on the internet without their permission’, information which all too often then ends up for sale on the darknet. Many areas of our daily lives have been digitalised in recent years, and with this comes an increasing awareness […]
Shackled democracy – social media
After the events of January 6 in Washington and President Trump‘s half-hearted disavowal of the violence it was only a question of time until Twitter, Facebook and all the other social media sites would take action. And rightly so, although I will miss Ex-President Trump‘s tweets, not for their insightful nature but for their entertainment […]
The grumpy older man 