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The professional services firm Cognizant will exit the content moderation business after two Verge investigations into working conditions at sites dedicated to Facebook, the companies said today. Cognizant had hired […]
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.site-content Hoaxes related to huge street protests are like forest fires: they are difficult to control and can cause irreversible damages. That is the toughest lesson fact-checkers from Spain, Ecuador, […]
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Current machine learning models aren’t yet up to the task of distinguishing false news reports, two new papers by MIT researchers show. The big picture: After different researchers showed that […]
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Fifteen miles west of Minneapolis, a billboard looms over a field of tall grass beside Highway 55. The sign features a photo of Evee Clobes, a baby girl with sparkling […]
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The task of moderating Facebook continues to leave psychological scars on the company’s employees, months after efforts to improve conditions for the company’s thousands of contractors, the Guardian has learned. […]
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LONDON (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Thursday it welcomed a commitment by Facebook that it would direct users seeking vaccine information on its Instagram, Facebook Search, Groups […]
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Misconceptions about disinformation leave us vulnerable to manipulation online, says Kate Starbird. Earlier this month, the White House hosted a ‘Social Media Summit’ that served to reframe and distract from […]
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From 2010 to 2011, I worked on YouTube’s artificial intelligence recommendation engine—the algorithm that directs what you see next based on your previous viewing habits and searches. One of my […]