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The Bigger Threat Was Always Domestic | The Atlantic
by Emerson T. Brooking & Jacob Shapiro
January 11, 2021
Exaggerating the threat of foreign disinformation made the problem harder to address. As the information scholars Alexei Abrahams and Gabrielle…
Researchers developed an AI system that predicts the likelihood people will spread misinformation based on words they use | Poynter
by Laura Weffer
December 29, 2020
University of Sheffield researchers Yida Mu and Dr. Nikos Aletra report they’ve developed an artificial intelligence system to help identify…
Job Opportunity: Assistant Teaching Professor, Computational Social Science | UC San Diego
by UC San Diego
December 14, 2020
The Division of Social Sciences invites applications for an Assistant Teaching Professor position in Computational Social Science, with a start…
2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data
November 30, 2020
The IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2020 (IEEE BigData 2020) provides a leading forum for disseminating the latest research…
Searching for the misinformation ‘twilight zone’ | First Draft
by Tommy Shane
November 27, 2020
There’s been a lot of debate recently about “Facebook’s Top 10,” a Twitter account that lists “the top-performing link posts…
Misinformation or artifact: A new way to think about machine learning | Science Daily
by University of Houston
November 24, 2020
Machine learning has delivered amazing results, but there also have been failures, ranging from the harmless to potentially deadly. New…
COVID-19 misinformation: understanding and seeking truth during a pandemic | Berkeley
November 24, 2020
Misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic continues to create confusion and contention along scientific and political lines. In this conversation, Berkeley…
‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies | University of Michigan News
by Ram Sundara Raman, Prerana Shenoy, Katharina Kohls & Roya Ensafi
November 20, 2020
The largest collection of public internet censorship data ever compiled shows that even citizens of what are considered the world’s…
The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed | MIT Technology Review
by Will Douglas Heaven
November 18, 2020
It’s no secret that machine-learning models tuned and tweaked to near-perfect performance in the lab often fail in real settings.…