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The recent explosion of false claims in social media and on the Web in general has given rise to a lot of manual fact-checking initiatives. Unfortunately, the number of claims […]
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It’s a truism that we live in a “digital age”. It would be more accurate to say that we live in an algorithmically curated era – that is, a period […]
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The computer vision APIs offered by Google, Microsoft, and IBM exhibit gender bias when tested on self-portraits of people wearing partial face masks. That’s according to data scientists at marketing […]
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As people around the world turn towards search engines to access information about COVID-19, it is important to understand why and how users are being exposed to junk news content. […]
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Face masks are one of the best defenses against the spread of COVID-19, but their growing adoption is having a second, unintended effect: breaking facial recognition algorithms. Wearing face masks […]
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Traditional news outlets as carriers and distributors of information have been challenged by online social networks with regards to their gate-keeping function. We believe that only a combined effort of […]
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We identified a lack of theoretical concepts and empirical knowledge about the perception and usage of social bots from the organizational and communication management perspective. Therefore, we first introduce social […]
