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  • Jim Jordan Issues Information Requests to Universities Researching Disinformation | ProPublica

    March 22, 2023

    House Republicans have sent letters to at least three universities and a think tank requesting a broad range of documents related to what it says are the institutions’ contributions to […]

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  • Language models might be able to self-correct biases—if you ask them | MIT Technology Review

    March 22, 2023

    Large language models are infamous for spewing toxic biases, thanks to the reams of awful human-produced content they get trained on. But if the models are large enough, and humans […]

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  • Journalists should be looking for undocumented APIs. Here’s how to start. | Nieman Journalism Lab

    March 22, 2023

    At The Markup, we build our own datasets, a lot. It’s one of the core tenets of our newsroom, and how we test our hypothesis-driven journalism. One way we do […]

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  • Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone | WIRED

    March 14, 2023

    Since Twitter launched in 2006, the company has acted as a kind of heartbeat for social media conversation. That’s partly because it’s where media people go to talk about the […]

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  • Platforms Can Optimize for Metrics Beyond Engagement | WIRED

    March 7, 2023

    Social media, news, music, shopping, and other sites all rely on recommender systems: algorithms that personalize what each individual user sees. These systems are largely driven by predictions of what each […]

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  • Collaborators invited for community engagement fund vs. disinformation | GMA News Online

    February 28, 2023

    Since 2016, my colleagues and I have authored multiple studies about social media disinformation and influence operations and their pernicious consequences to political debate, trust in the electoral process, and […]

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  • TikTok just announced the data it’s willing to share. What’s missing? | FSI

    February 28, 2023

    Is the new TikTok API going to be good enough for social media researchers? In 2022, we analyzed over 100 hours of TikTok videos as part of the Stanford Internet […]

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  • Researchers scramble as Twitter plans to end free data access | Nature

    February 16, 2023

    Akin Ăśnver has been using Twitter data for years. He investigates some of the biggest issues in social science, including political polarization, fake news and online extremism. But earlier this […]

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  • Twitter’s API Crackdown Will Hit More Than Just Bots | WIRED

    February 13, 2023

    On February 13, Twitter is expected to end free access to its API, or application programming interface, the backend access that lets people build bots to automatically post and respond […]

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  • Reflecting on the State of Digital Media Data Research

    February 6, 2023

    In January 2023, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Texas Governor Greg Abbott banned TikTok on state-owned devices, effectively halting university research on TikTok. And in February, Twitter announced it would […]

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