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Comparing Platform Research API Requirements | Tech Policy Press

March 23, 2023

Platform researchers are living through a strange moment– a pseudo-post-API age. On the one hand, there is no need to convince anyone–in Washington, Brussels, or even Silicon Valley–that using platform […]
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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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Call for Proposals | TrustCon 2023

February 24, 2023

TrustCon is a global conference dedicated to the work of trust and safety professionals, convening trust and safety experts from tech, civil society, academia, and government with the goal of […]
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Health Care Bias Is Dangerous. But So Are ‘Fairness’ Algorithms | WIRED

February 9, 2023

Mental and physical health are crucial contributors to living happy and fulfilled lives. How we feel impacts the work we perform, the social relationships we forge, and the care we provide for […]
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Moderating Social Media Discourse for a Healthy Democracy | Good Systems at UT Austin

February 7, 2023

The prevalence of hate speech and misinformation on the internet, heightened by the COVID–19pandemic, directly harms minority groups that are the target of vitriol, as well as our society atlarge […]
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Americans Don’t Understand What Companies Can Do With Their Personal Data — and That’s a Problem | Annenberg School of Communication

February 7, 2023

A new survey of 2,000 Americans finds that people don’t understand what marketers are learning about them online and don’t want their data collected, but feel powerless to stop it. […]
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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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What makes an election rumor go viral? Look at these 10 factors | Nieman Journalism Lab

October 28, 2022

Reporters and fact-checkers are familiar with the challenges posed by rumors: They tend to be persistent. They are often entertaining. And they sometimes turn out to be true. Today, information […]
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Social Media Transparency Rules, Zauderer Standard Head to Supreme Court | Lawfare

September 29, 2022

In 2021, Florida passed SB 7072, a pathbreaking (in a bad way) social media speech law. This May, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a significant […]
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Twitter has an experimental crowdsourced fact-checking feature | The Washington Post

August 30, 2022

As the big social media platforms trot out familiar misinformation policies ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, Twitter is holding what could be a wild card. But it’s one the […]
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