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Facebook Is Failing in Global Disinformation Fight, Says Former Worker | The New York Times
OAKLAND, Calif. — While Facebook has heralded improvements to its fight against disinformation in the United States, it has been…
Jill Lepore Discusses “If Then” with SSRC board member danah boyd | Data & Society
Data & Society presents its first-ever collaboration with Brooklyn Public Library in this online talk with historian Jill Lepore, who…
Big Tech pushes voter initiatives to counter misinformation | Axios
Tech giants are going all in on civic engagement efforts ahead of November's election to help protect themselves in case…
In Congress’s big tech hearing, look beyond ‘technology policy’ | Brookings
On July 29, the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee will hold a hearing with some of the nation’s top technology CEOs.…
The owner of WeChat thinks deepfakes could actually be good | MIT Technology Review
In a new white paper about its plans for AI, translated by China scholars Jeffrey Ding and Caroline Meinhardt, Tencent,…
Facebook Employee Leaks Show Betrayal By Company Leadership | Buzzfeed News
On July 1, Max Wang, a Boston-based software engineer who was leaving Facebook after more than seven years, shared a…
How Palantir and Peter Thiel might lead the biggest tech IPO of the year | Vox
In the earlier days of the Covid-19 pandemic, many of the country’s public health departments, still reliant on fax machines,…
The Technology 202: Facebook says current privacy laws are ‘insufficient’ | The Washington Post
The social network today released its latest white paper, a 29-page document calling current privacy practices and laws “insufficient.” The…
It’s time the tech giants cracked down on the anti-vaxx infodemic | The Telegraph
The campaign against vaccines is sometimes called a “movement”, but with the help of tech giants it has become a…