Lush’s social media boycott won’t cut it for big tech Opinion-in-brief Lush, the trendy cosmetics and soap company, has announced that until social media giants provide a “safer environment for users”, they will close all of the company’s “brand, retail and people accounts” on certain platforms. Given recent revelations from Facebook whistleblowers, this move, which could dent Lush’s bottom line, is laudable. But this knight in [...]
Facebook’s no fact-checking for VIPs policy will fuel conspiracy theories – the tech titan needs to come clean Fact-checking has been a key part of Facebook’s fight against misinformation – I should know, I used to be one of their fact-checkers. What’s more: it works. And yet, this week in one fell swoop, Facebook has managed to both fuel the fire of conspiracy theories and seriously undermine its own fact-checking programme. Emails from [...]
