In May of 2020, the Navajo Nation reported one of the highest per-capita COVID-19 infection rates in the United States.…
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VAERS: How to stop misinformation related to the US vaccine database | First Draft
by Lucinda Beaman and Esther Chan
July 27, 2021
If you live outside the United States, you might not be familiar with the country’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.…
Governments created an informational black hole for Indigenous communities and COVID-19 | Poynter
by Tristan Ahtone
July 26, 2021
We may never know how many American Indians or Alaska Natives died of COVID-19. The Indian Health Service, a division…
Politics and Computational Social Science (PaCSS) | Northeastern University
July 26, 2021
The fourth annual Politics and Computational Social Science (PaCSS) conference will take place virtually August 9 – 13 between 11…
Review: Why Facebook can never fix itself | MIT Technology Review
by Karen Hao
July 23, 2021
The Facebook engineer was itching to know why his date hadn’t responded to his messages. Perhaps there was a simple…
Transatlantic data flows: What’s next after the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield? | The Brookings Institution
July 21, 2021
As digitization increasingly shapes the scope of U.S. international trade, regulations and policies regarding cross-border data transfers carry significant economic…
A new Bretton Woods for Data | Oxford Internet Institute
July 16, 2021
Oxford Internet Institute presents ‘A new Bretton Woods for Data’. A conversation with Elizabeth Denham CBE, UK Information Commissioner and…
China’s Long-Term Investments in AI Growth: Bringing the Public and Private Sectors Together | Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology
July 15, 2021
The Chinese leadership has put artificial intelligence front and center in China's industrial development. As part of this strategy, they…
The Future of Platform Power: Quarantining Misinformation | Project Muse
by Robert Faris and Joan Donovan
July 15, 2021
Far removed from the techno-optimism inspired a decade ago by prodemocracy movements using digital tools to organize, today's discussions are…
Processes of Authentication and “Fake” News: On Gaining System Access | Items
by Melody Devries and Noel Brett
July 14, 2021
I (Devries) recently reached out to someone important in my life whose politics have been slipping further toward harmful, far-right…