Category: Media and Technology

by Andy Ridgway
June 3, 2019

Next-generation AI is threatening to take internet fakery to a dangerous new level. We meet the experts who are fighting back.

by Cris Rowan
December 2017

Parents, teachers and therapists should help society “wake up” and see the devastating effects technology is having not only on our child’s physical, psychological and behavioral health, but also on their ability to learn and sustain personal and family relationships.

by Judith Bergman
September 30, 2018

The European Union seems fixated, at least for the internet, on killing free speech. And social media giants – Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Microsoft, Google+ and Instagram – act as voluntary censors on behalf of the EU.

by Abigail Gilbert
July 11, 2018

In the surge of media attention surrounding the Gaza riots earlier this year, one theme was prevalent: a virulent attack on the State of Israel and her right to defend her sovereign borders. The attack came with one of the most incisive weapons in the war for public opinion – the media.

by Nhlanhla Ngwenya
April 26, 2018

From South Africa to the DRC and Angola to Mozambique, freedom of expression is under severe strain as those who wield power resort to all manner of tricks to stifle swelling criticism of their failed policies and citizens’ demand for servant leadership and accountable.

by wikiHow

Computer addiction has been described as being just as powerful as a drug addiction and your child’s excessive computer usage could lead to more serious problems down the road. Help your child overcome their own computer addiction by placing limits on their computer use, talking to them, and helping them find alternative activities.

by Dr. Brent Conrad

No one will display all of these signs of video game addiction. But obviously, a greater number of signs, more frequent occurrences, and more intense presentations would be more indicative of problematic video game habits.

by Michael Snyder
June 11, 2018

The war on “fake news” is about to go to an entirely new level. According to media reports, Facebook has been seeking to hire “news credibility specialists” that will be tasked with “evaluating” which news publishers are “credible” and which are not.

by Simon Plosker
May 17, 2018

Where is the outrage that Hamas kept urging Palestinians to move toward the fence, having been amply forewarned by Israel of the mortal risk? Or that protest organizers encouraged women to lead the charges on the fence or that Palestinian children as young as 7 were dispatched to try to breach the fence or that the protests ended after Israel warned Hamas’s leaders, whose preferred hide-outs include Gaza’s hospital, that their own lives were at risk.

by Hunter Stuart
June 22, 2017

In an exclusive article for HonestReporting, foreign journalist Hunter Stuart recounts how he was exposed to the realities of reporting from Israel and found that his pro-Palestinian views were dramatically changed as a result.