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Why Elon Musk’s ambition to have Twitter “authenticate all real humans” will get people killed | Rest of World
by Andrew Deck, Emily Fishbein and Genevieve Glatsky
May 9, 2022
In June 2021, Alita, a trans woman living in Saudi Arabia, saw a hashtag trending on Twitter that translated roughly…
Elon Musk is wrong: research shows content rules on Twitter help preserve free speech from bots and other manipulation | The Conversation
by Filippo Menczer
May 9, 2022
Elon Musk’s accepted bid to purchase Twitter has triggered a lot of debate about what it means for the future…
Algorithms, lies, and social media | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Stephan Lewandowsky and Anastasia Kozyreva
April 10, 2022
There was a time when the internet was seen as an unequivocal force for social good. It propelled progressive social…
TikTok algorithm directs users to fake news about Ukraine war, study says | The Guardian
by Alex Hern
March 21, 2022
A new TikTok account can be shown falsehoods about the Ukraine war within minutes of signing up to the app,…
Operationalizing responsible AI | The Brookings Institution
March 17, 2022
There is widespread agreement among ethicists and tech advocates that responsible AI principles requires fairness, transparency, privacy, human safety, and…
How many people really watch or read RT, anyway? It’s hard to tell, but some of their social numbers are eye-popping | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Joshua Benton
March 3, 2022
Is RT’s international audience real? That’s an important question, as regulators and distributors debate where the Kremlin-backed network falls on…
The Real Harm of Crisis Text Line’s Data Sharing | WIRED
by Keith Porcaro
February 3, 2022
Another week, another privacy horror show: Crisis Text Line, a nonprofit text message service for people experiencing serious mental health…
Social media has weakened India’s democracy. Social movements could be the answer | Rest of World
by Gayatri Khandhadai
December 17, 2021
Since 2014, social media has become central to how elections and campaigning for state and national elections take place in…
Artificial intelligence may not actually be the solution for stopping the spread of fake news | The Conversation
by Sze-Fung Lee and Benjamin C. M. Fung
November 29, 2021
Disinformation has been used in warfare and military strategy over time. But it is undeniably being intensified by the use…