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Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics | Vice
by Joseph Cox
May 5, 2022
A location data firm is selling information related to visits to clinics that provide abortions including Planned Parenthood facilities, showing…
An ‘Explosion’ of Anti-Ukraine Disinformation Is Hitting Moldova | WIRED
by Morgan Meaker
April 8, 2022
The video of the two men wrestling has been shared 41,000 times on Facebook, although the post was taken down…
Will the world clean up ‘information pollution’ in 2022? | World Economic Forum
by Alejandro Romero and Jonathan Nelson
March 25, 2022
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the global community has depended on digital media and social media platforms on a tremendous scale,…
How Native Americans Are Trying to Debug A.I.’s Biases | The New York Times
by Alex V. Cipolle
March 24, 2022
This article is part of a limited series on artificial intelligence’s potential to solve everyday problems. In September 2021, Native…
A Network of Fake Test Answer Sites Is Trying to Incriminate Students | The Markup
by Colin Lecher
February 17, 2022
When Kurt Wilson, a computer science student at the University of Central Florida, heard that his university was using a…
How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook | WIRED
by Darren Loucaides
February 11, 2022
On January 6, 2021, as a crowd of Donald Trump supporters began gathering for a rally near the foot of the Washington Monument,…
Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem | The Atlantic
by Matthew Hindman, Nathaniel Lubin, and Trevor Davis
February 11, 2022
If you want to understand why Facebook too often is a cesspool of hate and disinformation, a good place to…
The danger is still on our devices | Columbia Journalism Review
by Jon Allsop
February 10, 2022
Last month, Calcalist, a business newspaper in Israel, reported that police in the country had used Pegasus, a potent spyware…
Disinformation, Radicalization, and Algorithmic Amplification: What Steps Can Congress Take? | Just Security
by Karen Kornbluh
February 9, 2022
Design features of social media platforms are exploited to promote extremism. The platforms’ after the fact, whack-a-mole approach to content…