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TikTok is getting caught in political and moral disputes across several African nations. In August, Senegal and Somalia banned the app, with calls to do the same in Kenya and […]
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Next week the Senate will host one of the most important conversations of the year when the top minds in artificial intelligence convene for our first AI Insight Forum. It […]
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During the first year of Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine, social media companies enabled the Kremlin to run a large-scale disinformation campaign targeting the European Union and its allies, reaching […]
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When: Wednesday, August 30th, 2023, 1–4 pm Where: Weizenbaum Institute + Zoom (hybrid) Registration: https://forms.gle/7NJngW7Ty4c8TWs3A Messaging applications, such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal, are increasingly used for all forms of political […]
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This paper examines ‘open’ AI in the context of recent attention to open and open source AI systems. We find that the terms ‘open’ and ‘open source’ are used in […]
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Privacy policies are horrible. They are too long, impenetrable, and full of legalese that amounts to a take it or leave it offer. But the privacy policy is one of […]
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We studied the effects of exposure to reshared content on Facebook during the 2020 US election by assigning a random set of consenting, US-based users to feeds that did not […]
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Many critics raise concerns about the prevalence of ‘echo chambers’ on social media and their potential role in increasing political polarization. However, the lack of available data and the challenges […]
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Does Facebook enable ideological segregation in political news consumption? We analyzed exposure to news during the US 2020 election using aggregated data for 208 million US Facebook users. We compared […]
