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What’s a digital footprint and how can I shrink mine?

Hilary Armstrong — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:57:52 +0000

Our personal data is a prized asset that’s traded online without our knowledge. Here’s how to take back some agency

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Becoming less visible online: five ways to shrink your digital footprint

Gavin Haines — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 11:45:47 +0000

As California’s pioneering ‘delete act’ progresses, here are five steps you can take today to become less visible online

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Debunking disinformation: seven truth defenders bringing people the facts

Robin Eveleigh — Tue, 16 May 2023 15:49:27 +0000

Fake news is shown to spread faster than the truth. So where can you get the facts? These sources are a good place to start

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Norway hopes to boost body image with retouching law

Robin Eveleigh — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 12:21:38 +0000

Legislators in Norway have served infuencers and advertisers a dose of reality, with new rules that govern the use of Photoshopped images

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More than weeds: the rebel botanists on a mission to celebrate urban plants

Nicola Slawson — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 16:29:36 +0000

Inspired by a botanist using chalk to name weeds, people are teaching themselves about the urban flora and fauna in their neighbourhoods and sharing their findings on social media

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Separating fact from deadly fiction: the London team factchecking the coronavirus

Gavin Haines — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:25:54 +0000

Full Fact, the UK’s independent factchecking charity, is working to tackle a flow of falsities around Covid-19

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Crowdfunding bid to tackle elitism in journalism by helping media interns

Lucy Purdy — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 15:03:57 +0000

The PressPad social enterprise matches unpaid media interns with mentors who can offer them free places to stay. Now, the team is more than halfway toward a £30,000 fundraising target to expand its work

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Under the influence: sustainability on social media

Lucy Douglas — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 16:09:11 +0000

Social media isn’t only a place of rampant consumerism – some ‘influencers’ use their presence online to promote greener ways of living

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Using social media to tackle extremism

Lucy Douglas — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 11:37:10 +0000

In an extract from a new book, activist Fatima Zaman explains how she helped unite 10,000 young people to fight the threat of extremism online

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Thousands of positive messages posted in campaign to ‘reclaim social media for good’

Lucy Purdy — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:24:50 +0000

A viral campaign from charities to ‘reclaim social media for good’ has inspired thousands of positive messages on Twitter and other social networks

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