Category Archives: Politics

Education in a world of clicks

A friend sent me the famous quote, “Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”The quote is from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Message for American Education Week”, a speech given in 1938.

The message is just Continue reading →

Facebook,Twitter, you and I

We are all being manipulated I am told. Not only by people, but by social bots, the software programs that mimic human behaviour on social media.

Angela Merkel worries that fake news providers and social bots will manipulate the German election. The Washington Post seems to know that Continue reading →