Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy(pewresearch.org)

95 points by karakoram 19 days ago | 73 comments

Pew Research Center report on international survey findings that growing shares of people say social media is harming democracy.

38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later(pewresearch.org)

172 points by Kye 2 years ago | 136 comments

Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls(pewresearch.org)

76 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 137 comments

Satisfaction with Democracy Has Declined in Recent Years in High-Income Nations(pewresearch.org)

4 points by sarimkx 2 years ago | 0 comments

Growing share of Americans favor more nuclear power(pewresearch.org)

204 points by freedude 3 years ago | 183 comments

58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it(pewresearch.org)

54 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 38 comments

Injunction issued in case about social media pressure from US Government(arstechnica.com)

360 points by cm_silva 3 years ago | 625 comments

Ars Technica article on a federal judge's preliminary injunction finding the White House pressured social networks to suppress speech, in a suit by Missouri and Louisiana.

US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives(reuters.com)

440 points by colinhb 8 months ago | 372 comments

Reuters article on the US ordering its diplomats to oppose foreign data sovereignty initiatives; the page loaded a bot-verification captcha instead.

US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks(reuters.com)

511 points by giuliomagnifico 4 months ago | 563 comments

Reuters article on the US holding off on blacklisting China's DeepSeek and over 100 other firms deemed security risks; the capture shows a captcha verification page.

Fake reviews are illegal and subject to big fines under new FTC rules(washingtonpost.com)

534 points by rrauenza 3 years ago | 223 comments

Washington Post Help Desk article on proposed FTC rules that would make fake online reviews illegal and subject to large fines.

Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds(bloomberg.com)

706 points by simula67 2 years ago | 467 comments

Bloomberg article reporting a San Francisco Fed study finding no evidence that remote work affects productivity, with about 30% of paid workdays remote at end of 2023.

1 in 5 online job postings are either fake or never filled, study finds(gizmodo.com)

358 points by belter 1 year ago | 305 comments

Gizmodo news article reporting a study finding that about one in five online job postings are fake or never filled, so-called ghost jobs.