Social Media
Will TikTok Pay a Price for Spying on Its Users?
Despite numerous scandals and calls for it to be banned, TikTok, the Chinese-owned app, continues to enjoy immense popularity in Australia. ByteDance, the Beijing-based company that owns and controls TikTok, is currently under investigation by...
Lebanon Is Becoming Increasingly Tough for Journalists
Once hailed as a model for free thinking and expression, Lebanon is becoming increasingly authoritarian toward dissenting voices and the rights of journalists to be critical of government action and...
Regulate or Ban TikTok? How Americans View the Potential Security Risk
With increased bipartisan concern in Washington about the data collection and management practices of Chinese-owned social media applications such as TikTok, we inquired as to whether the public is similarly...
Banning TikTok Would Close China’s Social Media Backdoor
In mid-March, the White House issued a major ultimatum to TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance: divest from the popular social media app or risk fighting a national ban. It took the...
Credibility Crisis: How to Save Social Media From Itself
Should social media owners be liable for the content published on their sites, or should they benefit from the privilege of neutrality given to them at the dawn of the...
Ukraine’s Lessons for the Future of Hybrid Warfare
A new decision-analysis approach is necessary to capture the use of disinformation in the context of hybrid warfare. The war in Ukraine features two different types of competing societies: open...
Will Elon Musk’s Rule Destroy Twitter?
Since taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has made a lot of changes, many of them not so well-received by the site’s user base and advertisers. Another possibly imminent change was...
Is Saudi Arabia Scheming to Weaponize Twitter?
Last week, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) responded to Elon Musk’s recent $44 billion purchase of Twitter by calling on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a...
The Iranian Diaspora’s Extremism Portends a Bleak Future
Perhaps it is only in retrospect that the magnitude of the events of the past month in Iran can be appreciated. Regardless of the outcome, the country was rattled by a...
Bring It Back: Musk-Owned Twitter Looks to Reboot Vine
The first few days of Twitter under Elon Musk have been rather chaotic, from executive firings to reports of bizarre directives to Musk himself tweeting conspiracy theories. Throughout it all,...
Chinks in Our Armor: How Vulnerable Is American Democracy?
In 2007 I visited Fort Bragg, North Carolina as a guest speaker for a U.S. Army Ranger engineer battalion preparing to deploy to Iraq. The subject of my talk was...
It’s Official: Elon Musk Takes Over Twitter, Purges Leadership
After a complex, months-long saga, Elon Musk is now officially the owner of Twitter. The deal closed on Thursday. Prior to the official closing, Musk entered Twitter’s headquarters in San...