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Kate Crawford – Atlas of AI | Digital Democracies Institute
April 7, 2021
Prof. Kate Crawford is a leading scholar who has spent the last decade studying the social and political implications of…
Can A.I. help Facebook cure its disinformation problem? | Fortune
by Jeremy Kahn
April 6, 2021
In addition to testing American democracy, November’s election and the subsequent storming of the U.S. Capitol put social media to the test. Facebook and its rivals have spent…
Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier | Reuters
by Raphael Satter
July 16, 2020
Oliver Taylor, a student at England’s University of Birmingham, is a twenty-something with brown eyes, light stubble, and a…
Third AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society
December 11, 2019
"As AI (and associated AI-hype) grows more pervasive in our lives, its impact on society is ever more significant, raising…
Brennan Center for Justice: Policing Race & Technology
December 2, 2019
"Please join the Brennan Center for Justice and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund for a full-day symposium on…
El Paso and Dayton shootings put focus on social media’s handling of white supremacist content | Vox
by Shirin Ghaffary, Rani Molla, & Emily Stewart
August 6, 2019
In less than 24 hours on Saturday and Sunday, two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, have…
Cloudflare Ditches 8chan. What Happens Now? | WIRED
by Lily Hay Newman
August 6, 2019
The internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare said it would cut service on Sunday evening to 8chan, the infamous online forum that…
Gab Is in Full Meltdown, and Founder Andrew Torba Blames the ‘Deep State’ | The Daily Beast
by Kelly Weill
May 31, 2019
Months after a Gab user allegedly massacred Jewish worshippers at a synagogue, the extremist-friendly social-media site is in the middle…