India’s quick commerce platforms and restaurant chains are ramping up aggressive marketing campaigns to capture heightened consumer demand during the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL), underscoring the tournament’s growing importance as a catalyst for short-term sales spikes and customer acquisition. According to the Economic Times article titled “Quick commerce, restaurant chains firing offers to cash…
A new artificial intelligence tool unveiled by Bluesky aims to reshape how users experience social media by offering a highly personalized content feed, underscoring a broader shift toward user-controlled algorithms in decentralized platforms. In an article titled “Meet Attie: Bluesky’s AI assistant can customise your social feed,” The Economic Times reports that Bluesky has introduced…
A recent WIRED article, titled “The Murky World of Instacart Promo Codes,” examines the sprawling and often opaque ecosystem surrounding online discounts for the grocery delivery platform, revealing a marketplace shaped as much by opportunism and misinformation as by legitimate marketing. As the piece details, Instacart promo codes have become a staple of online deal-hunting…
A recent Wired article, “Livestream the War Machine,” examines a rapidly evolving feature of modern conflict: the use of livestreaming platforms to document, shape, and at times distort the realities of war. As frontline fighters, military units, and civilians increasingly broadcast events in real time, the boundaries between information, propaganda, and entertainment are becoming harder…
A new analysis from Wired examines the growing intersection between digital political culture and formal governance, arguing that a generation of right-wing online personalities has begun to move from shaping political narratives on social media to occupying positions within government and political institutions. In the video report “Trendlines: How Right-Wing Influencers Infiltrated the Government,” published…
In a steadfast commitment to enhancing media literacy and combating disinformation, the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) continues to expand its activities across Europe. As detailed in the article “European Digital Media Observatory continues its activities” published on the European Commission’s Digital Strategy website, the observatory is set on solidifying its role as a critical…
Major global tech conglomerates, according to a recent report by the Israeli website Calcalist, have initiated significant layoffs affecting thousands of workers, a development reflective of the escalating economic pressures within the tech industry. The article, titled “The layoffs epidemic: Why tech giants are letting go of thousands of employees?” delves into the factors leading…
In an era of increasingly polarized public discourse, a new study published in Frontiers in Human Dynamics offers a compelling look at how individual political ideologies shape—and are shaped by—online engagement with scientific content. The research article, titled “A Computational Study of How Individual Political Ideology Predicts Engagement With Scientific Content on the Web,” examines…
Elon Musk’s social media platform X—formerly known as Twitter—is facing scrutiny over possible violations of U.S. sanctions, after an investigation suggested that premium features of the site are being accessed by users in Iran. The report, published by Wired under the headline “Elon Musk Appears to Be Violating US Sanctions by Providing X Premium Accounts…
In an effort to counter the growing threat of online polarisation and its destabilising effects on democratic societies, the European Commission has launched a new funding initiative aimed at fostering social cohesion through digital means. The move was announced in a recent article titled “New Call for Proposals to Advance Social Cohesion in the Face…
