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Design features of social media platforms are exploited to promote extremism. The platforms’ after the fact, whack-a-mole approach to content moderation is insufficient. However, Section 230 reform – a popular […]
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JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Like with almost every aspect of our lives, there are apps for parents-to-be to track their pregnancies and learn more about what to expect when they’re expecting. […]
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In February 2021, Qurium, an organization that provides secure web hosting services for human rights organizations and independent news outlets, received a rambling message from someone whose email signature indicated […]
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Another week, another privacy horror show: Crisis Text Line, a nonprofit text message service for people experiencing serious mental health crises, has been using “anonymized” conversation data to power a […]
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The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is planning to require citizens to create accounts with a private facial recognition company in order to file taxes online. The IRS is joining a growing number […]
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As social media become major channels for the diffusion of news and information, it becomes critical to understand how the complex interplay between cognitive, social, and algorithmic biases triggered by […]
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Online extreme speech has emerged as a significant challenge for democratic societies worldwide. Governments, companies, and academic researchers have responded to this phenomenon by increasingly turning to Artificial Intelligence (AI) […]
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The Kazakhstan government shut off the internet nationwide on Jan. 5, 2022, in response to widespread civil unrest in the country. The unrest started on Jan. 2, after the government […]
