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Focus Tag: Algorithmic Targeting
Blackbird.AI grabs $10M to help brands counter disinformation | TechCrunch
by Natasha Lomas
5 days ago
New York-based Blackbird.AI has closed a $10 million Series A as it prepares to launch the next version of its…
Responding to AI Enabled Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism | Berkman Klein Center
September 8, 2021
This event is part of a three-part symposium on Security, Privacy, and Innovation: Reshaping Law for the AI Era. The…
Big Tech’s Tightening Grip On Internet Speech | ProMarket
by Gregory M. Dickinson
August 12, 2021
These two rights Americans hold dear: the freedom to speak their minds and the freedom not to listen when someone…
Covering COVID-19 with automated news | Columbia Journalism Review
by Samuel Danzon-Chambaud
August 9, 2021
For all the news organizations that have adopted automated journalism over the last decade or so, the COVID-19 pandemic…
How Status Seeking and Social Learning Shape Political Polarization on Social Media | Annenberg School for Communication
August 9, 2021
Popular narratives about how social media shapes political polarization emphasize echo chambers, foreign misinformation campaigns, and algorithmic radicalization. Yet a…
International Counterathon Workshop | AI4Dignity
July 27, 2021
Team AI4Dignity is organizing a two-day collaborative coding event with fact checkers, AI developers and academic researchers to improve machine…
The Future of Platform Power: Quarantining Misinformation | Project Muse
by Robert Faris and Joan Donovan
July 15, 2021
Far removed from the techno-optimism inspired a decade ago by prodemocracy movements using digital tools to organize, today's discussions are…
Toward Contextualizing Not Just Containing Right-Wing Extremisms on Social Media: The Limits of Walled Strategies | Items
by Fenwick McKelvey
July 13, 2021
What if automated takedowns of harmful and hateful content do not work? Or at least, not to the extent proposed…
YouTube’s algorithm pushes hateful content and misinformation: Report | POLITICO
by Clothilde Goujard
July 9, 2021
Violent videos and misinformation are amplified by YouTube's algorithm, despite the company's rules meant to limit their spread, according to a…