The British Far-Right: Made In The Establishment UK
The last decade has witnessed something of a sea-change in the perception of internet media and publishing by journalists andContinue Reading
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Silver Winner, Current Affairs And Politics, Blog Awards Ireland 2018
Just a quick post to note that An Sionnach Fionn won a Silver or second place award in the CurrentContinue Reading
Joe Rogan Talks To Roseanne Barr
Watching this lengthy discussion with the YouTube host Joe Rogan, it’s hard not to feel some sympathy for the disgracedContinue Reading
A New Look For The White Fox
As regular readers will have noticed, there has been a bit of a change to the look and layout ofContinue Reading
The Mysteries Of Google Search Engine Optimisation
A few weeks ago I had a brief reminder of why Google remains the king of internet search engines, eclipsingContinue Reading
The Questionable Culture Of Irish Online Influencers
The old maxim about power corrupting, and absolute power corrupting absolutely, springs to mind whenever I look at the “influencer”Continue Reading
The EU Copyright Directive Article 13 Threatens Internet Diversity
With all the focus on the implementation of the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, very fewContinue Reading
Channel Awesome And The Justin Carmical Or JewWario Assault Allegations
At first sight, the recent troubles at the popular geek website, Channel Awesome, seemed to be little more than aContinue Reading
Generation Identity United Kingdom And Ireland Is The British Alt-Right
In 2012, the French far-right party Bloc Identitaire – later renamed Les Identitaires – established a youth wing under theContinue Reading
The Channel Awesome Controversy And Those Allegations Of Misconduct
Some readers might be aware of the independent American media website, Channel Awesome, and its eponymous profile on YouTube. OverContinue Reading
The Email Data Breach At Independent News & Media
Out of legal necessity, one needs to tread very carefully while discussing the emerging scandal at Independent News & MediaContinue Reading
The Noxious Beliefs Of The Hardcore Anti-Abortion Lobby In Ireland
Lift up a particular rock in Irish politics and what do you find crawling and squirming underneath but a swarmContinue Reading
Anti-Choice Campaigners Use Same Tech As The Trump, Brexit And NRA Campaigns
As Ireland moves towards a plebiscite on revoking the restrictive 8th Amendment of Bunreacht na hÉireann, some observers have notedContinue Reading
AggregateIQ, The Brexit Mystery Behind The Vote Leave Campaign And The DUP
As expected, the scandal involving the UK data-mining company, Cambridge Analytica, has moved on to its unofficial Canadian affiliate, AggregateIQ.Continue Reading
Cambridge Analytics: Donald Trump And The 2016 Presidential Election
Channel 4 News in Britain has released another piece from its undercover investigation into the clandestine activities of the well-connectedContinue Reading
Cambridge Analytica Uncovered: Propaganda, Bribery And Prostitutes
A fantastic investigation by Channel 4 News in the United Kingdom, exposing the clandestine activities of Cambridge Analytica, the controversialContinue Reading
Cambridge Analytica, Using Facebook Data For Brexit, Donald Trump And The DUP
Cambridge Analytica, the secretive British data-harvesting company linked to 2016’s twin shocks of the Brexit vote in the United KingdomContinue Reading
Akilah Hughes Versus Carl Benjamin, The YouTuber Known As Sargon Of Akkad
As I wrote in a previous article, while I follow a number of channels on YouTube offering commentary on politicalContinue Reading
Bad Politics Makes For Bad History With The Online Propagandists Of PragerU
Most people outside the United States of America are only vaguely aware of how pervasive the ideological divisions gripping theContinue Reading
Spiked Magazine Gets It Wrong On Brexit And Ireland
The origins of the internet magazine, Spiked, lie in the demise of the United Kingdom’s controversial – and latterly, oddballContinue Reading
The Atlantic Magazine Ends Online Comments In A Retrograde Step
On the 2nd of February the American current affairs website, The Atlantic, announced that it was closing down its Disqus-basedContinue Reading
Dude, You Broke The Future! Charles Stross On The 21st Century
The British science-fiction author Charles Stross gives a rambling, discursive and angry analysis of what is wrong with the 21stContinue Reading
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