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Every minute, an estimated 3.8 million queries are typed into Google, prompting its algorithms to spit out results for hotel rates or breast-cancer treatments or the latest news about President […]
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Artificial intelligence has already started to shape our lives in ubiquitous and occasionally invisible ways. In its new documentary, In The Age of AI, FRONTLINE examines the promise and peril […]
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Politicians sometimes exaggerate the laws they’re proposing. But when they start making up new sections of a bill from whole cloth, something has gone wrong. In the case of the […]
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As more organizations and industries adopt digital tools to identify risk and allocate resources, the automation of racial discrimination is a growing concern. Social scientists have been at the forefront […]
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Twitter is one of the most popular micro blogging services, which is generally used to share news and updates through short messages restricted to 280 characters. However, its open nature […]
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In this paper, a stochastic dynamic control strategy is presented to prevent the spread of an infection over a homogeneous network. The infectious process is persistent, i.e., it continues to […]
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Despite the considerable interest in the detection of toxic comments, there has been little research investigating the causes — i.e., triggers — of toxicity. In this work, we first propose […]
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The pervasive use of social media gives it a crucial role in helping the public perceive reliable information. Meanwhile, the openness and timeliness of social networking sites also allow for […]
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Online social media have become one of the main communication platforms for political discussion. The online ecosystem, however, does not only include human users but has given a space to […]
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Bots are often identified on social media due to their behavior. How easily are they identified, however, when they are dormant and exhibit no measurable behavior at all, except for […]
