Trump’s attack on the BBC is part of an endless campaign to undermine public trust in information: The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, recently gave a press briefing about Palestinians killed close to an aid distribution centre in Gaza on June 1. A key question, she suggested, was whether the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) …
Why Trump’s plans for tariffs on foreign films probably won’t have a happy ending: Bill Chizek/Shutterstock With its tariffs policies, the administration of US president Donald Trump aims to correct the country’s persistent goods trade deficit. The president has argued that the US has been “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered” by other countries. Trump feels …
How Project 2025 became the blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term: Throughout the 2024 presidential election campaign, Donald Trump denied claims he intended to shape his second administration’s policies around Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a renewed conservative America. But despite his repeated denials, Trump 2.0 has adopted much of Project 2025 into …
World Affairs Briefing: World considers response to Trump’s tariffs – and Israel launches new Gaza offensive: This article was first published in The Conversation UK’s World Affairs Briefing email newsletter. Sign up to receive weekly analysis of the latest developments in international relations, direct to your inbox. Donald Trump has announced a massive package of …
A short history of the separation of powers: from Cicero’s Rome to Trump’s America: Studies in democracy: Cicero, left, and Donald Trump. Capitoline Museum/Mary Harrsch and EPA-EFE/Will Oliver, CC BY-SA In the four weeks since he was inaugurated for his second term as US president, Donald Trump has issued dozens of executive orders – many …
The key takeaways from Donald Trump’s inauguration speech: Donald Trump has been sworn in as president of the US for a second term – and this time there won’t be any arguments about crowd sizes. The most glaringly obvious difference in optics this time round for both those in attendance and the millions watching around …
Putin’s obsession with total victory is major obstacle for Trump’s Ukraine plan: Donald Trump has already walked back on his claim that he would solve the Ukraine conflict within 24 hours of taking office. Just as he once stated that he would resolve the healthcare crisis in the US easily, then backtracked to say “nobody …
World Update: Trump’s global shockwaves: The world was definitely watching as the US went to the polls on Tuesday. Many people turned to YouTube to view the latest figures as states turned in their votes, where an apparent 84 million hours of presidential election day news were watched from all around the globe. I had …
World Update: will Trump’s hurricane disinformation counter Harris’s media blitz?: The next phase of the US election campaign is coming right at us and it’s even nastier than the last. As hurricanes Milton and Helene rolled in to Florida and North Carolina and at least four other states, bringing tornadoes, storm surges, and miles of …
Donald Trump’s truth: why liars might sometimes be considered honest – new research: According to fact checkers, Donald Trump made more than 30,000 false or misleading claims during his presidency. That’s around 20 a day. But, according to several opinion polls during his presidency, around 75% of Republican voters still considered Trump to be honest. …
Social media now trumps traditional family networks in Libya – my Facebook survey reached 446,000 women: Connected: Facebook is by far the most popular social media platform in Libya with more than six million users. Prostock-studio via Shutterstock When I told my family and friends I intended to pursue a PhD researching HIV awareness among …
House speaker election: fight over Kevin McCarthy’s leadership has exposed limits of Trump’s power: Days after what was supposed to be a victory lap for Kevin McCarthy, and Republicans still haven’t figured out who the next speaker of the House will be. The chamber had taken eleven votes as this article went to press, with …
Ron DeSantis: the Florida governor who may steal the Republican nomination from under his mentor Donald Trump’s nose: Is Ron DeSantis the heir apparent to Donald Trump? It sure looked like it on Tuesday. In a US midterm election that saw his Republican party underperform nationally, DeSantis was the spectacular outlier, turning in a dominant …
Why Brazil’s Bolsonaro is following Trump’s pre-election playbook: The day after the attack on the US Capitol in January 2021, Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro threatened: “If we don’t have printed ballot papers in 2022, so we can check the vote, we’re going to have worse trouble than in the United States.” For the past four …
Trump’s Facebook ban upheld – but the future of the oversight board is in doubt: Nuno21/Shutterstock Referred to by some as Facebook’s “supreme court”, the oversight board tasked with reversing or upholding Facebook’s content moderation decisions has ruled that the social media company’s ban of Donald Trump should be maintained. The board upheld Facebook’s January …
South Africa in the news: Babar century trumps van der Dussen’s as Pakistan win thriller: Pakistan 274 for 7 (Babar 103, Imam 70, Nortje 4-51) beat South Africa 273 for 6 (van der Dussen 123*, Miller 50, Afridi 2-61) by three wickets With high drama lacing through Bavuma’s first match in …: “South Africa” – …
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Trump’s Twitter ban obscures the real problem: state-backed manipulation is rampant on social media: ozrimoz/Shutterstock Donald Trump’s controversial removal from social media platforms has reignited debate around the censorship of information published online. But the issue of disinformation and manipulation on social media goes far beyond one man’s Twitter account. And it is much more …