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Facebook Is Failing in Global Disinformation Fight, Says Former Worker | The New York Times
by Sheera Frenkel
September 16, 2020
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
September 8, 2020
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
by Sara Fischer & Ashley Gold
August 17, 2020
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
by Alex Engler
July 31, 2020
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
by Karen Hao
July 29, 2020
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
by Ryan Mac and Craig Silverman
July 27, 2020
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
by Sara Morrison
July 20, 2020
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
by Cat Zakrzewski
July 17, 2020
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
by Imran Ahmed
July 9, 2020
The campaign against vaccines is sometimes called a “movement”, but with the help of tech giants it has become a…