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Tackling online hate speech one emoji at a time | Oxford Internet Institute
by Hannah Rose Kirk
August 24, 2021
New research from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) exposes critical problems in how emoji-based online hate is tackled, with OII…
“In Kosovo, everybody has their own truth” | Columbia Journalism Review
by Scott Winter
August 24, 2021
Serbians and Albanians have clashed in the mountains and valleys of what is now Kosovo since the fourteenth century. In…
Annenberg Conversations on Gender: From Algorithm Audits to Accountability | Annenberg School for Communication
August 19, 2021
In this conversation, Duncan Watts and Danaë Metaxa will discuss Metaxa’s research using algorithm audits to measure gender and racial…
Twitter’s racist algorithm is also ageist, ableist and Islamaphobic, researchers find | NBC
by Kevin Collier
August 12, 2021
A Twitter image-cropping algorithm that went viral last year when users discovered it preferred white people to Black people was…
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…
Vaccine misinformation: Why fake news affects women more | Marie Claire
by Ally Head
July 2, 2021
A University of Glasgow study suggests young people, women and people from Black, Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities are less likely…
Three Iraqi women explain how and why they stay anonymous online | Rest of World
by Sofia Barbarani
June 20, 2021
Ever since social media was introduced in Iraq, women here have turned to online anonymity in order to voice their…
The Double Exploitation of Deepfake Porn | The Walrus
by Maggie McDonald
June 14, 2021
Over the past three years, celebrities have been appearing across social media in improbable scenarios. You may have recently caught…
Truth Decay: Discrimination & Disinformation | Columbia Regional Educator Network
June 8, 2021
The expansion of access to information through the internet, and the rise of almost unlimited sources of news and opinion…