SOCH WRITING

“Many accounts on Twitter are created for propaganda”

Rizwan Saeed, an online big data researcher, talks to Soch about his frustration with ‘propaganda fake accounts’ and the existence of political party-backed social media networks of trolls. Rizwan Saeed, a cultural anthropologist, is currently completing a Master’s degree in Social...

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What digital media ‘gets away’ with

Whether its reports about aliens or sex, why is it that digital media appears keener to take risks than print media? A few weeks ago, Talat Aslam, who has been editing The News’ pages for many years, found himself in an impromptu newsroom meeting; the discussion was about using the...

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