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Female video game journalists on what to do when the mob comes for you | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Luke Winkie
July 27, 2021
The weirdest harassment campaign Ash Parrish ever faced came after she wrote a cheeky, semi-facetious story for Kotaku about why…
Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming | The New York Times
by Max Fisher
July 26, 2021
In May, several French and German social media influencers received a strange proposal. A London-based public relations agency wanted to…
Conference for Truth and Trust Online | Truth and Trust Online
July 26, 2021
While trustworthy online spaces benefit everyone, untrustworthy content and behaviour can divide, confuse, and cause real harm. The annual Conference…
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…
Police in Latin America are turning activists’ phones against them | Rest of World
by Leo Schwartz
July 19, 2021
In late April, a wave of protests swept across Colombia, sparked by a proposed tax reform measure that many people…
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…
Twitter admits it verified several fake accounts | The Verge
by Jon Porter
July 14, 2021
Twitter says it has permanently suspended a “small number” of fake accounts it mistakenly verified just weeks after re-launching its…
Inside Facebook’s Data Wars | The New York Times
by Kevin Roose
July 14, 2021
One day in April, the people behind CrowdTangle, a data analytics tool owned by Facebook, learned that transparency had limits.…