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Is Twitter Going Full Resistance? Here’s the Woman Driving the Change. | POLITICO
by Nancy Scola
10 hours ago
On a late fall day last year, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sat down on a couch on the company’s San…
Data should enfranchise people, says the Democrats’ head of technology | MIT Technology Review
by Tate Ryan-Mosley
2 days ago
Nellwyn Thomas cut her chops in campaign technology as the deputy chief of analytics for Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2016.…
Wikipedia and W.H.O. Join to Combat Covid-19 Misinformation | The New York Times
by Donald G. McNeil Jr.
3 days ago
As part of efforts to stop the spread of false information about the coronavirus pandemic, Wikipedia and the World Health…
Expanding the debate about content moderation: Scholarly research agendas for the coming policy debates | Internet Policy Review
by Tarleton Gillespie, Patricia Aufderheide, Elinor Carmi, Ysabel Gerrard, Robert Gorwa, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Sarah T. Roberts, Aram Sinnreich, and Sarah Myers West
7 days ago
Content moderation has exploded as a policy, advocacy, and public concern. But these debates still tend to be driven by…
Job Opening: AIGI Public Fellow | Data & Society
by Data & Society
October 22, 2020
This new position at Data & Society is an opportunity for a mid-career or senior scholar, or team of two…
Investigative Digital Ethnography: Methods for Environmental Modeling | Media Manipulation Casebook
by Brian Friedberg
October 21, 2020
Investigative Digital Ethnography combines elements of investigative journalism with ethnographic observation in a practice useful for academic researchers, policy makers,…
Report on tax evasion and listen to women of colour: Safiya Noble’s tips to cover tech | Reuters Institute
by Eduardo Suárez
October 20, 2020
Safiya Noble is one of the most respected voices on the impact of technology companies in society. She is an…
Trolling for Truth on Social Media | Scientific American
by Joan Donovan
October 16, 2020
During the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Seattle, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets with…
President Trump and social media are super spreaders of misinformation right now, Americans say | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Hanaa' Tameez
October 12, 2020
With just 26 days to go before the United States presidential election — in the middle of a major racial…