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SUMMARY:Global Disinformation Index – Public Launch of Report & Results for Canada | Digital Democracies Institute
DESCRIPTION:Event featured image\, but exclude link  Event content  \n\n\nRegister here for the launch event for this highly anticipated event. News websites have financial incentives to spread disinformation\, in order to increase their online traffic and\, ultimately\, their advertising revenue. Meanwhile\, the dissemination of disinformation has disruptive and impactful consequences. The COVID-19 pandemic offers a recent example. By disrupting society’s shared sense of accepted facts\, these narratives undermine public health\, safety and government responses. \nTo combat ad-funded disinformation\, the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) deploys its assessment framework to rate news domains’ risk of disinforming their readers. These independent\, trusted and neutral ratings are used by advertisers\, ad tech companies and platforms\, to redirect their online ad spending in line with their brand safety and disinformation risk mitigation strategies. \nGDI defines disinformation as ‘adversarial narratives that create real world harm’\, and the GDI risk rating provides information about a range of indicators related to the risk that a given news website will disinform its readers by spreading these adversarial narratives. These indicators are grouped under the index’s Content and Operations pillars\, which respectively measure the quality and reliability of a site’s content and its operational and editorial integrity. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/global-disinformation-index-public-launch-of-report-results-for-canada-digital-democracies-institute/
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SUMMARY:Dr. Casey Fiesler (Colorado Boulder) on Three Lessons Towards Ethical Tech | Barnard Vagelos Computational Science Center
DESCRIPTION:Hardly a day passes without a new technology ethics scandal–from privacy violations on social media platform to biased algorithms to controversial data collection for training facial recognition systems. In computing practice and research\, good intentions sometimes still lead to negative consequences. This talk describes three lessons from my research that inform ethical practices in studying\, building\, and teaching about technology: (1) empirical work towards best practices for research ethics in data science\, including understanding possible harms from data collected without consent; (2) ethical debt (as a parallel to technical debt) in technology design and research as the precursor to the types of unintended consequences that underly ethical controversies; and (3) the importance of empowering everyone to not just create but to critique technology. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/dr-casey-fiesler-colorado-boulder-on-three-lessons-towards-ethical-tech-barnard-vagelos-computational-science-center/
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