By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image X rolled out a new feature called ''About your account'' as seen displayed on iPhone, November 23, 2025. © 2025 Andre M Chang/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock Since November 21, social media company X has been rolling out a new feature called “About this account,” which displays information about users that was previously not publicly disclosed. This includes the country where an account was created, is based, the date it joined X, and username changes.The company says the feature is intended to verify authenticity and improve transparency, but it raises serious concerns…
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By Abhimanyu Bandyopadhyay
As tremors rippled across Bangladesh, panic sent people fleeing into the streets, yet online debates fixated not on safety but on whether women should cover themselves before escaping collapsing buildings.
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By Daniel Mirny, Assistant Professor of Marketing, IESE Business School (Universidad de Navarra)
In public discourse, we spend a great deal of collective energy debating the accuracy of facts. We fact-check politicians, monitor social media for misinformation, and prioritise data-driven decision-making in our workplaces. This focus is vital; the distinction between truth and falsehood is the bedrock of a functioning society.
However, by focusing so intently on factual accuracy, we risk overlooking another fundamental distinction: the difference between a fact and an opinion.
A statement of fact is relatively easy to verify: it is either true or not. But a claim’s objectivity…
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By Paul Behrens, British Academy Global Professor, Future of Food, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
With so many influential people in the room, the hope was to see a tipping point in the engagement of political, faith, business and cultural leaders.
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By Danny Buckley, Workplace Learning Director, Loughborough University
The UK’s autumn budget tried to appeal to both workers and employers. But the decision the very next day to soften a key plan to improve workers’ rights shows how difficult that balance has become.
Just hours after Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her budget, the government announced it would backtrack on a manifesto pledge to give all workers the right to claim unfair dismissal from day one of their employment.
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By Domenico Vicinanza, Associate Professor of Intelligent Systems and Data Science, Anglia Ruskin University
Google plans to start experimenting with data centres in space in just over a year, while SpaceX and Blue Origin are also talking up the possibilities.
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By Chris Waugh, Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology, Manchester Metropolitan University
As I watched the death-metal band thrash and shriek through their performance, I had absolutely no idea what they looked like.
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By Shaun Nolan, Associate professor in English and sociolinguistics, Malmö University
A fake photo of an explosion near the Pentagon once rattled the stock market. A tearful video of a frightened young “Ukrainian conscript” went viral: until exposed as staged. We may be approaching a “synthetic media tipping point”,…
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By Aylin Baysan, Professor of Cariology in relation to Minimally Invasive Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London
Oral health is often overlooked in diabetes care, yet problems in the mouth can worsen blood sugar control – and diabetes can damage the mouth in return.
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By Melinda Haas, Assistant Professor of International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
A new Trump administration policy threatens free speech and association by targeting individuals and groups as potential domestic terrorists based on their beliefs rather than their actions.
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