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Misinformation or artifact: A new way to think about machine learning | Science Daily
by University of Houston
November 24, 2020
Machine learning has delivered amazing results, but there also have been failures, ranging from the harmless to potentially deadly. New…
How to deal with AI-enabled disinformation | Brookings
by John Villasenor
November 24, 2020
Rapid disinformation attacks—i.e., attacks in which disinformation is unleashed quickly and broadly with the goal of creating an immediate disruptive…
COVID-19 misinformation: understanding and seeking truth during a pandemic | Berkeley
November 24, 2020
Misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic continues to create confusion and contention along scientific and political lines. In this conversation, Berkeley…
Information Overload Helps Fake News Spread, and Social Media Knows It | Scientific American
by Filippo Menczer & Thomas Hills
November 23, 2020
The need to understand these cognitive vulnerabilities and how algorithms use or manipulate them has become urgent. At the University…
The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed | MIT Technology Review
by Will Douglas Heaven
November 18, 2020
It’s no secret that machine-learning models tuned and tweaked to near-perfect performance in the lab often fail in real settings.…
An AI tool can distinguish between a conspiracy theory and a true conspiracy | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Timothy Tangherlini
November 17, 2020
The audio on the otherwise shaky body camera footage is unusually clear. As police officers search a handcuffed man who…
The Manufacture of Political Echo Chambers by Follow Train Abuse on Twitter
by Christopher Torres-Lugo, Kai-Cheng Yang, Filippo Menczer
November 9, 2020
A growing body of evidence points to critical vulnerabilities of social media, such as the emergence of partisan echo chambers…
Annotated Bibliography: Transnational Digital Repression | The Citizen Lab
by Noura Al-Jizawi, Siena Anstis, Sharly Chan, Adam Senft & Ron Deibert
November 9, 2020
This Annotated Bibliography compiles and summarizes relevant literature on “transnational digital repression” (i.e., where states seek to exert pressure—using digital…
Characterizing social media manipulation in the 2020 U.S. presidential election | First Monday
by Emilio Ferrara, Herbert Chang, Emily Chen, Goran Muric & Jaimin Patel
November 3, 2020
Democracies are postulated upon the ability to carry out fair elections, free from any form of interference or manipulation. Social…