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Telegram is one of the world’s most popular social networks. Its low-moderation, privacy-focused ethos has made it an ideal platform for organising social movements – but it also facilitates extremists, violent terrorists and disinformation networks. Having avoided attempts by governments around the world to curtail suspected illegal activity on the platform, Telegram’s Russian founder, Pavel Durov, was arrested for alleged complicity with organised crime, drug trafficking and the distribution of child sex abuse material – charges he denies. Durov and his team had long approached the matter of content moderation with a laissez-faire and libertarian philosophy. Now a fierce debate has emerged: could a CEO really be held liable for what was said and done on their platform? Based on years of reporting and intimate access to his employees, friends and associates, ‘Killer App’ tells the story of how Durov’s social media platform changed the
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A searing insight into the radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel, David Sacks and Donald Trump, and how it will affect the future of all our lives.
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Books are dying. Across the world the number of people reading is in free fall. Literacy is declining or stagnating in most developed countries. At universities, students are unable to read the books assigned to them by their teachers. Addictive digital entertainment technologies have colonised our free time with infantilising ‘slop’. The golden chain of knowledge linking reader to reader through the centuries is breaking for the first time since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire ushered in the Dark Ages. This book is an impassioned attack on the trivial and meaningless culture of the screen and a defence of the written word.
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The groundbreaking memoir and call to action from the inventor of the World Wide Web.
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Life online is getting worse and worse? Leading tech critic, Cory Doctrow, author of The Internet Con, has the answer, and also wants to show how we can win it back.
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Drawing on shocking original reporting, this is the incredible story of TikTok, exploring its rise, influence and relationship to China.
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From the rise of leetspeak and words such as ‘unalive’ to the trend of adding ‘-core’ to different influencer aesthetics, the internet has ushered in an unprecedented linguistic upheaval. We’re entering an entirely new era of etymology, heralded by the invisible forces driving social media algorithms. And with over 7 billion internet users uploading over 2.5 quintillion bytes of media every day, the sheer volume of potential new words is astounding. In ‘Algospeak’, online etymologist Adam Aleksic shines a light on the roots of words that we don’t realise have come from unexpected places – from incel culture, from the innovation of users trying to get around content moderation algorithms, from the marketing speak that has invaded our personal lives.
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Juno Isabella Flock is a dancer and performance artist who spends her days caring for her ailing husband, and her nights chatting to love scammers online. She’s aware of the risks these men pose – she’s watched a documentary about them – but she’s also discovered a heady freedom in these online conversations, and the things they allow her to say. When Juno meets Owen Wilson223 – or, to use his real name, Benu – she senses an immediate connection between them, even though they’re separated by thousands of miles. Gradually, they reveal more and more about themselves to each other: about their real selves, and about who they really want to be. And just as Juno sees through Benu’s lies, he sees through hers too.
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Shocking and darkly funny, this is the bestselling explosive inside story of a senior executive at Meta (formerly Facebook).
