Social Media - Quillette (Page 2)

Stop Feeding Your Brain Junk Food

A simple way to discourage clickbait influencers from producing low-quality content is for the rest of us to stop consuming it.

Gurwinder Bhogal

26 Jul 2022 · 9 min read

Confessions of a Social-Justice Meme Maker

I made pretty pictures that helped keep people enraged and mobilized. Then I asked myself: ‘Why am I doing this?‘

Christina Buttons

17 May 2022 · 10 min read

Building a Better Twitter

Twitter’s current policy on content isn’t one dimensional: It serves up both false positives and false negatives—wrongly banning certain accounts for thoughtcrimes while permitting others to continue on the platform despite engaging in grotesquely abusive behavior.

The Quillette Editorial Board

6 May 2022 · 5 min read

How Much Real-World Extremism Does Online Hate Actually Cause?

While calls to censor hate speech and violent extremist content on social media platforms are common, there’s little evidence that online incitement leads to real-world radicalization. Ironically, such calls may actually galvanize extremists, who interpret hostile media coverage, commentary, and censorship policies as confirmation of their victimhood narratives and

Bill Ottman and Jesse Morton

20 Mar 2022 · 7 min read

Involuntarily Celibate: Explanations and Practical Solutions to a Dangerous Phenomenon

The overall picture from our results is that places where local conditions make it harder than usual for young men to establish themselves as attractive mating prospects tend also to be places where online Incel action is more common.

Rob Brooks

20 Jan 2022 · 6 min read

Troll Exposure

Hell hath no fury like a trolled daughter’s father: When multiple media houses and friends of friends from far overseas approach me and my family over a devastating, soul-destroying, career-ending lie, then the time of any person to act has arrived. It’s time to protect your daughter and

Sean Welsh

8 Dec 2021 · 10 min read

An Outback Conspiracy

Misinformation results from the toxic combination of these two defining features, a lack of proximity to the Territory, and viewing the world through the lens of oppression.

Matthew Blackwell

28 Nov 2021 · 13 min read

Facebook: The New Big Tobacco or A Media Moral Panic?

Social media changes the way people relate to each other whether they use it or not, and whether they use it sparingly or heavily.

Quillette

26 Oct 2021 · 20 min read

The Exhibitionist Economy

Upcoming generations will not thank us for gifting them a world devoid of the concept of personal privacy.

Ari David Blaff

15 Oct 2021 · 7 min read

Instagram's Mental Health Emergency

The main ethical problem posed by Instagram is that young people are not mature enough to give informed consent to having their preferences harvested and fed back to them by a corporation that specialises in attention manipulation.

Claire Lehmann

4 Oct 2021 · 11 min read

Podcast #168: Jonathan Haidt on Instagram’s Mental Health Emergency

Jonathan Kay speaks with Jonathan Haidt about the emotionally destructive effect of social media on many young users.

Quillette

4 Oct 2021 · 1 min read

Inflammatory Anti-Racism

The fear of being branded with one of the most deadly contemporary sins has generally ensured a pusillanimous collapse by corporations, institutions, and individuals.

John Lloyd

29 Aug 2021 · 10 min read

The Victims’ Race

Victimhood may confer ancient and effective advantages, but researchers are nonetheless alarmed by the scale of digital self-harm in adolescents, and the recent recourse to false accusations more generally.

Tomasz Witkowski

27 Aug 2021 · 10 min read