Researchers say social, ethical and political concerns in the UK about artificial intelligence (AI) are mounting and greater oversight is urgently needed, according to the Guardian. Otherwise, we could expect to see the kind of social disruption that greeted the advent of genetically-modified (GM) foods during the past decades. The…
The Guardian reports on a rise in complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the UK advertising regulator, who says ‘influencers’ on social media sites such as Instagram and Twitter fail to declare that they are being paid to publicise products. The newspaper defines ‘influencers’ thus: Social media celebrities who have…
Letters: Europe will be what we make it and Europe can only be built with the intelligence, the help and the might of Britain
A discussion topic in episode 701 of the FIR podcast, published today, looks at a question asked in the Metro newspaper last week: should British politicians take notes from Barack Obama’s campaign team? The Metro’s excellent report looked at the key role social media played – especially Twitter – in…
Sentences handed out in Chester as lawyers and civil rights groups express alarm about ‘disproportionate’ punishments
Watchdog to consult on how tweets can be brought under its remit, asking each newspaper to draw up a ‘Twitter policy’
