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European Union officials are threatening to regulate how social-media platforms such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. moderate content, increasing pressure on the companies to remove bots and fake […]
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Check out Mediawell’s weekly roundup of content relating to Twitter’s newly announced political advertising ban. View excerpts and links to our selected articles here.
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Brian Fishman, who leads the effort against terrorist and hate organizations at Facebook, argues that counter-terrorism researchers need to tailor their recommendations to the corporate policymakers inside tech companies who […]
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Though criticized for their delayed reaction, the coalition of tech giants known as GIFCT began working together to curb online terrorist content in late 2016. Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and Google […]
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Today such companies as Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter play an increasingly important role in how users form and express opinions, encounter information, debate, disagree, mobilize, and maintain their […]
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way since the term was coined by Professor John McCarthy at the famous Dartmouth conference in 1956. Ardent work by scientists and engineers, […]
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As artificial intelligence continues to find its way into our daily lives, its propensity to interfere with human rights only gets more severe. With this in mind, and noting that […]
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How to ethically conduct online platform-based research remains an unsettled issue and the source of continued controversy. The Facebook emotional contagion study, in which researchers altered Facebook News Feeds to […]
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This study explores privacy from the perspective of the user. It leverages a “framing in thought” approach to capture how users make sense of privacy in their social media use. […]
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This paper argues that the current policy initiatives adopted by the European Commission are meaningful, but still incomplete. The policy response to online disinformation should ideally rely on: (i) the […]
