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How Amazon puts misinformation at the top of your reading list | The Guardian
by John Naughton
5 days ago
It’s a truism that we live in a “digital age”. It would be more accurate to say that we live…
The Hate-Fueled Rise of r/The_Donald—and Its Epic Takedown | WIRED
by Robert Peck
August 5, 2020
On March 22, 2017, at 2:40 pm local time, a terrorist attacked pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in London with a…
Follow the Money: How the Online Advertising Ecosystem Funds COVID-19 Junk News and Disinformation | The Computational Propaganda Project
by Emily Taylor, Lisa-Maria Neudert, Stacie Hoffmann & Philip N. Howard
August 4, 2020
As people around the world turn towards search engines to access information about COVID-19, it is important to understand why…
TikTok says it will reveal its algorithm and wants Facebook to do the same | Vox
by Rebecca Heilweil
July 31, 2020
TikTok challenged its competitors on transparency. But what does that actually mean? Hours before the House antitrust subcommittee hearing featuring…
Roger McNamee: ‘Facebook is a threat to whatever remains of democracy in the US’ | The Guardian
by Ian Tucker
July 31, 2020
The scale of internet platforms such as Google and Facebook is unprecedented in the tech world and, I would argue,…
Face masks are breaking facial recognition algorithms, says new government study | The Verge
by James Vincent
July 28, 2020
Face masks are one of the best defenses against the spread of COVID-19, but their growing adoption is having a…
Content-based features predict social media influence operations | Science Advances
by Meysam Alizadeh, Jacob N. Shapiro, Cody Buntain & Joshua A. Tucker
July 24, 2020
We study how easy it is to distinguish influence operations from organic social media activity by assessing the performance of…
Job Opening | Policy Director | Data & Society
by Data & Society
July 20, 2020
Today, we announced a job opening for a brand-new position at Data & Society. We have spent the last six…
Q&A: The Data Delusion | Stanford Cyber Policy Center
by Marietje Schaake & Martin Tisné
July 17, 2020
The European Union is often called a ‘super-regulator’, especially when it comes to data-protection and privacy rules. Having seen European…