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Who has the right to be anonymous? | New Statesman
by Emily Tamkin
April 21, 2022
WASHINGTON — On Tuesday (19 April) the Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz published an article that confirmed the name of…
“It’s O.K. to abandon ship”: How to critically evaluate scientific claims before pursuing a story | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Megha Satyanarayana
February 17, 2022
Our inboxes are full of them — press releases, pitches, and other media calling some scientific event “a breakthrough,” “a…
Federal court blocks Texas law banning ‘viewpoint discrimination’ on social media | The Verge
by Adi Robertson and Russell Brandon
December 2, 2021
A federal judge has blocked a Texas law that aimed to limit large social platforms’ ability to moderate content on…
The Interplay of Technology, Ethics, and Policy | Network Science Institute
November 29, 2021
This talk will be hybrid in-person and via Zoom. Register in advance here for this meeting using your institutional email…
Facebook convinced poll panel to settle on a voluntary code | Hindustan Times
by Venkat Ananth and Deeksha Bhardwaj
November 23, 2021
In the run-up to the 2019 general elections, internal Facebook documents say it managed to convince the Election Commission of…
Elihu Katz Colloquium: Is an “ethical” internet possible? | Annenberg School for Communication
November 1, 2021
How can we ethically engage a military-derived technology that has infiltrated every aspect of our lives from refrigerators to furniture?…
Big Oil Uses Newsletter Ads to Spread Misinformation Ahead of Hearing | Gizmodo
by Molly Taft and Emily Atkin
October 28, 2021
On Thursday, a cadre of Big Oil CEOs will testify at a examining whether their companies engaged in a campaign…
Applied Algorithmic Ethics | Marquette University
October 8, 2021
As algorithms increasingly automate decision-making processes, filter information flows, and mediate our social interactions, ethical concerns immediately follow. Questions of…
Dr. Casey Fiesler (Colorado Boulder) on Three Lessons Towards Ethical Tech | Barnard Vagelos Computational Science Center
October 8, 2021
Hardly a day passes without a new technology ethics scandal--from privacy violations on social media platform to biased algorithms to…