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TechTank: Can AI Developers Be Incentivized to Debias Their Algorithms? | Lawfare
by Darrell West
October 19, 2022
The prevalence and technical relevance of machine learning algorithms have increased over the years, making predictive decisionmaking tools part of…
American Views 2022: Part 1 | Knight Foundation
by Knight Foundation
October 19, 2022
A robust press is vital to a healthy democracy. But newsrooms need resources to create reliable news that is accessible…
Experts grade Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube on readiness to handle midterm election misinformation | The Conversation
by Dam Hee Kim, Anjana Susarla, and Scott Shackelford
October 19, 2022
The 2016 U.S. election was a wake-up call about the dangers of political misinformation on social media. With two more…
South-to-South Learning Spaces vs Disinformation | DigiLabour
by Jonathan Corpus Ong and Rafael Grohmann
October 19, 2022
Global South disinformation advocacies too often tend to replicate certain Euro-American frames of platform and technological determinism where Facebook, Russian…
Call for Papers: Mis/disinformation and the artifices of authenticity and authentication | ICA 2023 Pre-Conference
by Digital Democracies Institute
October 18, 2022
The construction of authentic-feeling yet untrue information, content, experiences, and relations is central to successful mis/disinformation campaigns. The most outrageous…
Power, Platforms and Politics: Asian Americans and Disinformation | Asian American Disinformation Table
by Asian American Disinformation Table
October 17, 2022
This report offers a preliminary landscape analysis of mis- and disinformation within and about Asian/Asian American diasporic communities with the…
Unpacking the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights | Tech Policy Press
by Justin Hendrix
October 17, 2022
Last week, President Joe Biden’s White House published a 73-page document produced by the Office of Science and Technology Policy titled Blueprint for…
Misinformation Swirls in Non-English Languages Ahead of Midterms | The New York Times
by Tiffany Hsu
October 13, 2022
Unsubstantiated rumors and outright falsehoods spread widely in immigrant communities ahead of the presidential election in 2020. That is happening…
‘Democracy on the line’: Brazil’s election and the Bolsonaro disinformation ecosystem | Columbia Journalism Review
by Jem Bartholomew
October 13, 2022
Brazilians will return to voting booths on October 30 to decide a heated presidential race, with polls showing that the…