War in Ukraine: how a new propaganda machine is being created in the occupied territories

Jack Goodman, Maria Korenyuk, Lucy Swinnen and Andrey Zakharov BBC Disinformation Unit 2 hours ago The BBC News Russian Service app is available for IOS and Android…

"I wish I wasn't famous." How a Ukrainian woman with a Soviet flag became a cultural phenomenon in Russia and what she thinks about it

Svyatoslav Khomenko, Elizaveta Foght, Anastasia Platonova BBC May 16, 2022 The BBC News Russian Service app is available for IOS and Android . You can also subscribe…

Elon Musk, who buys Twitter, called for the removal of Trump's ban

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Elon Musk, who buys Twitter, called for the lifting of the Trump ban

May 10, 2022 The BBC News Russian Service app is available for IOS and Android . You can also subscribe to our Telegram channel. image copyrightGetty Images…

How fake profiles and false faces are used on Twitter to support Putin's actions

Giuliana Gragnani, Medhavi Arora and Seraj Ali BBC World Service Disinformation Unit 3 hours ago The BBC News Russian Service app is available for IOS and Android…

Elon Musk, buying Twitter, called for the lifting of the Trump ban

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Elon Musk wants to make Twitter paid for a number of users and promises big changes

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Bots, patriotism, government funding and no war. How social networks and services are being created in Russia to replace Western ones

Ksenia Churmanova BBC Russian Service 56 minutes ago The BBC News Russian Service app is available for IOS and Android . You can also subscribe to our…

Social network for $44 billion How will Twitter change after the purchase of the company by Elon Musk?

April 26, 2022 The BBC News Russian Service app is available for IOS and Android . You can also subscribe to our Telegram channel. image copyrightGetty Images…

Social network for $44 billion. How will Twitter change after the purchase of the company by Elon Musk?

April 26, 2022 The BBC News Russian Service app is available for IOS and Android . You can also subscribe to our Telegram channel. image copyrightGetty Images…

"Showy videos": what is known about the fighters from Chechnya in Ukraine

“Showy videos”: what is known about the fighters from Chechnya in Ukraine April 20, 2022 The BBC News Russian Service app is available for IOS and Android…

Social network for 44 billion. How will Twitter change after the purchase of the company by Elon Musk?

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Nadine Dorries mocked over ‘downstreaming movies’ and ‘tennis pitches’ comments in online video

She said she wanted to “make the internet in the UK the safest internet in the world”. Ms Dorries went on to say that DCMS was also…

How folding clothes gained a cult-like following

For Annabel Hodin, personal stylist and organiser, ‘it’s not the folding that is necessarily good for you, it’s the not-rushing’. Hodin finds Kondo’s method of folding ‘almost…

An Orwellian era of online censorship is just beginning

As if the tax hikes weren’t bad enough, the “Conservative” Party is mid-assault on another of its now forgotten core values: freedom of speech. Nadine Dorries has…

Foreign countries ‘should adopt British rules’ to keep children safe online

Mr Edwards said California, which hosts the HQs of some of the biggest tech firms in the world, was already introducing a UK-style children’s code, with the…

Social media ban on ‘climate misinformation’ sparks freedom of speech fears

Social media website Pinterest has become the first company to ban “climate misinformation” from its platform in a crackdown on freedom of expression online. The site will…

The rise of the TikTok toddler

As with everyone, pre-schoolers are susceptible to the surge in dopamine – the feel-good chemical produced in the brain – that smartphone apps produce. “The body seeks…

‘We’ll be worth £76m next year’– meet the founders of the UK’s first NFT gallery

Today, the UK’s first NFT gallery opens its doors: a full-time space dedicated to what believers promise is the future of British art. Based in Shoreditch, in…

The West is losing the information war with Russia – and hasn’t even noticed

These narratives build on long-running Russian influence operations in Africa, where Putin has been attempting to revive his country’s Cold War era diplomatic footprint and where many…

Mood, review: Nicôle Lecky’s supercharged millennial polemic is gripping and grimy

Social media complicates that exchange further. Sasha is emboldened by the comments she receives for her racy content, and feels in control, but becomes addicted. In a…

The me, me, me generation thinks the Ukraine crisis is all about them

War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Apart, it would seem, from providing the opportunity for outrageous narcissism on social media.  As nightmarish events unfold in…

Discovering I have ADHD at 33 saved my marriage

After the revelation, with medication and cognitive behavioural therapy prescribed, I was all set to turn my life around. What I wasn’t ready for was the response…

The horror of Zoombombing and how it’s pushing Jewish life underground

But when Jews and other minority groups are targeted, it is with the specific intention of causing them harm, he says. “These people are trying to hurt…

Publishing must shun the Twitterati, not give in to their demands

Perhaps authors have lost their guts, or their creativity, in recent years. Upon finding out that the publishers Maunsel and Company and the printer John Falconer had…