14.57 12 Jan 2021
Twitter’s ban on Donald Trump has been welcomed by a lot of people who were shocked by last week’s riot on Capitol Hill.
But long time Trump critic and German Chancellor Angela Merkel is not one of those people.
She has criticised the move calling it “problematic”. This has raised many questions about social media as a platform for public discourse.
Marie Boran is a Freelance Tech Journalist & Researcher in Computational Social Science at DCU.
Related Episodes
Dec 16, 2020
ZURICH/LUGANO, Switzerland – Our geological epoch, the Anthropocene, in which mankind is shaping the fate of the planet, is characterized by existential threats. Some are addressed in action plans such as the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals. But we seem to be caught between knowing that we should change our behavior and our entrenched habits.
In an overpopulated world, many have asked, “What is the value of human life?” The COVID-19 pandemic has raised this issue once more, framing the question in stark terms: Who should die first if there are not enough resources to save everyone?
Many science-fiction novels, such as Frank Schatzing’s “The Tyranny of the Butterfly,” deal with similar concerns, often “solving” the sustainable-development problem in cruel ways that echo some of the darkest chapters in human history. And reality is not far behind. It is tempting to think we can rely on artificial intelligence to help us navigate such dile