Beyond Corporate Social Media Platforms: The Epistemic Promises and Perils of Alternative Social Media.
In recent years, we have witnessed increased interest in alternatives to the dominant corporate social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter (now X), and TikTok. Tired of disinformation, harassment, privacy violations, and the general degradation of platforms, users and technologists have looked fo...
| Publicado en: | Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 43; no. 5; pp. 1557 - 1569 |
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