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  • AI expert Meredith Broussard: ā€˜Racism, sexism and ableism are systemic problems’ | The Guardian

    April 6, 2023

    Meredith Broussard is a data journalist and academic whose research focuses on bias in artificial intelligence (AI). She has been in the vanguard of raising awareness and sounding the alarm […]

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  • #MonetizingMisogeny | #She Persisted

    February 16, 2023

    Our original, ground-breaking research is the bedrock of our activity. It examines the patterns, motives, and modus operandi of major gendered disinformation campaigns and their links to the undermining of […]

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  • AI & Social Manipulation | Northeastern University Network Science Institute

    February 10, 2023

    Networks have dramatically changed the way we experience the world. Information access and broadcasting have been revolutionized. The Internet, the Web, and online platforms bring us together: our society is […]

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  • UT Austin Good Systems Speaker Series | Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

    February 7, 2023

    The scope of criminal legal surveillance, from the police to the prisons, has expanded rapidly in recent decades. At the same time, the use of big data has spread across […]

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  • TikTok’s Secret Sauce | Knight First Amendment Institute

    January 30, 2023

    A project studying algorithmic amplification and distortion, and exploring ways to minimize harmful amplifying or distorting effects What made TikTok such a success? A commonly given reason is that the […]

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  • How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation | ProPublica

    October 31, 2022

    Google is funneling revenue to some of the web’s most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found. The company has publicly […]

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  • FTC Explores Rules Cracking Down on Commercial Surveillance and Lax Data Security Practices | Federal Trade Commission

    August 15, 2022

    The Federal Trade Commission today announced it is exploring rules to crack down on harmful commercial surveillance and lax data security. Commercial surveillance is the business of collecting, analyzing, and […]

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  • Musk’s Twitter bid, and the ā€˜bot’ complication | Columbia Journalism Review

    May 20, 2022

    Elon Musk’s bid to acquire Twitter for $44 billion is only a month old, but it has already had more twists and turns than any Coney Island roller coaster. After […]

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  • Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics | Vice

    May 5, 2022

    A location data firm is selling information related to visits to clinics that provide abortions including Planned Parenthood facilities, showing where groups of people visiting the locations came from, how […]

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  • An ā€˜Explosion’ of Anti-Ukraine Disinformation Is Hitting Moldova | WIRED

    April 8, 2022

    The video of the two men wrestling has been shared 41,000 times on Facebook, although the post was taken down on April 7, after WIRED brought it to the platform’s […]

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