Elon Musk’s bid to acquire Twitter for $44 billion is only a month old, but it has already had more…
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Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics | Vice
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Design features of social media platforms are exploited to promote extremism. The platforms’ after the fact, whack-a-mole approach to content…