If you have marked some of your friends as "See First" and sometimes see a flash of their posts when the newsfeed is loaded, then the newsfeed reloads and the post goes away, this is most likely because you have the "News Sort: Most Recent" option turned on. When this option is tur...
The often-humorous, marked-up images known as memes have also come in for criticism. They lower down traditional forms of public debate, spreading far and wide with little context. But memes serve different purposes in different cultures. In India they tend to focus on serious and religious ...
Controversies surrounding the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election—specifically, Russian interference and Cambridge Analytica—marked a turning point in terms of public outrage. Media coverage in March 2018 brought the controversies to widespread attention (e.g., Cadwalladr & Graham-Harrison,2018; Rosenberg...
partisanship and sectarianism. I was struck by the rising use of memes and how a handful of core themes made their way from meme to belief. During the 2019 election, I noticed how memes from far right US Facebook pages were being