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Online discussions often derail into toxic exchanges between participants. Recent efforts mostly focused on detecting antisocial behavior after the fact, by analyzing single comments in isolation. To provide more timely […]
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Facebook’s News section, which launches Friday, is a big deal for newspapers, because Facebook is finally going to start paying them for their work. It is also an interesting, tacit […]
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Matteo Renzi, Italy’s former prime minister and founder of the new Italia Viva party, sits in an opulent-looking office, face to the camera. An oil painting hangs to one side […]
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YouTube is the biggest social media platform in the country, and, perhaps, the most misunderstood. Over the past few years, the Google-owned platform has become a media powerhouse where political […]
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Current machine learning models aren’t yet up to the task of distinguishing false news reports, two new papers by MIT researchers show. The big picture: After different researchers showed that […]
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Event Listing Header “The powerful have long agreed: Poor and working people must be watched. With the proliferation of digital monitoring and algorithmic management of gig economy and blue collar […]
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In April 2018, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, told Congress about an ambitious plan to share huge amounts of posts, links and other user data with researchers around the world […]
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“The Tech for Good Summit 2019 will feature speakers who are using technology to make our world a better place, celebrating how tech is being used to make positive social […]
