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The unmoderated Gab platform has an estimated 1 million users and a strong following amongst the far right. (Artwork: Nathan Czapnick)
by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
FROM the Christchurch shooter’s manifesto to Ukip candidate Carl Benjamin’s YouTube channel “Sargon of Akkad,” alt-right hatred is being shared across the internet more outspokenly and frequently than ever.
In response, social media platforms such as Twitter, Reddit, YouTube and Facebook have attempted to moderate such content by deleting it from their sites. However, the social media giants did not foresee the outcome of openly stating that such content is forbidden: the growing popularity of the unmoderated social media site Gab.
Gab was created in August 2016 by Andrew Torba, an US-based Trump supporter, with the goal of replacing Twitter, the second largest social media site after Facebook.
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
