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Focus Tag: Digital Culture
Cyberspace is critical infrastructure – it will take effective government oversight to make it safe | The Conversation
by Francine Berman
2 days ago
Legal and regulatory protections in cyberspace have not kept up with the times. They are better suited to the internet…
Why Is Misinformation So Appealing? | Psychology Today
by Sara Gorman & Jack M. Gorman
3 days ago
No matter how you look at it, misinformation and conspiracy theories are spreading at alarming rates. This has led the…
WhatsApp Hopes its Misinformation-Busting Feature Will Help Democracy | Red Herring
by Red Herring
August 6, 2020
Social media platform WhatsApp has launched a new feature it hopes will make discourse more truthful. “Search the web” allows…
TikTok and the Law: A Primer (In Case You Need to Explain Things to Your Teenager) | Lawfare
by Robert Chesney
August 4, 2020
TikTok is in serious trouble, and teenagers across the land are demanding answers about the legal frameworks at issue. Well,…
Roger McNamee: ‘Facebook is a threat to whatever remains of democracy in the US’ | The Guardian
by Ian Tucker
July 31, 2020
The scale of internet platforms such as Google and Facebook is unprecedented in the tech world and, I would argue,…
Exposure to social engagement metrics increases vulnerability to misinformation | HKS Misinformation Review
by Mihai Avram, Nicholas Micallef, Sameer Patil, and Filippo Menczer
July 31, 2020
News feeds in virtually all social media platforms include engagement metrics, such as the number of times each post is…
RightsCon Online 2020
July 23, 2020
RightsCon is the world's leading event on human rights in the digital age. Originally called the Silicon Valley Human Rights…
Meme factory cultures and content pivoting in Singapore and Malaysia during COVID-19 | Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
by Crystal Abidin
July 23, 2020
This paper is a qualitative ethnographic study of how a group of meme factories in Singapore and Malaysia have adapted…
Deepfakes and the New AI-Generated Fake Media Creation-Detection Arms Race | Scientific American
by Siwei Lyu
July 22, 2020
Falsified videos created by AI—in particular, by deep neural networks (DNNs)—are a recent twist to the disconcerting problem of online…