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An armed man walks into a pizzeria. Terrified customers gather their children and rush out. But the man is there hoping to protect children. That is a true story. However, the armed man was in the pizza place, in early December, because of a fake news story—or, to put it more accurately, because of misinformation [...]
I can’t remember exactly why I joined Twitter. It probably seemed like a good idea at the time. I’ve been on that website in one form or another since 2009, mostly to lurk behind locked…
LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, a Virginia-based firm, gathered information on more than 600 family separation demonstrations across the country.
This is the web page for the report “An Analysis of United States Online Political Advertising” released by the group at NYU conducting research on Online Political Advertisements.
The fake accounts had handles like @NayNayCantStop, @LatrineWatts, and @CisHate, and bios like “Queer + black + angry.”
Sri Lanka’s ban on social media forces a question nobody wants to ask: What if a global media network is impossible?
Thanks to “data inference” technology, companies know more about you than you disclose.
Class accounts are a way for incoming freshmen to make friends, find roommates, and suss out colleges before fall.
We imagined a form in which you have to disclose your digital identity to prove yourself trustworthy enough for a loan.
"Stark reality" illustrated by 71-image gallery of vile, moderated comments.
Targeted advertising has turned the platform into the best and worst place to buy stuff online.
Many parents that have lost a child to the flu or other vaccine-preventable cause find themselves the target of hateful attacks on social media and by phone -- all while they still grieve their loss.
More on "info voids".
(2019). The social value of anonymity on campus: a study of the decline of Yik Yak. Learning, Media and Technology: Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 92-107.
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) is dedicated to exploring the English countryside, its history, its people - and now bats. Their Twitter account, known for its dark, dry humor, tweeted out last fall that they had made a discovery in their rare book store that didn't quite fall under the usual artifact categories.
School officials say the monitoring was about keeping students safe, not punishing them. But critics say it expanded the role of police in schools and increased surveillance of children.
Gen Z appears mostly indifferent to Facebook, but they can't escape the social network; it’s their parents who are doing most of the posting.
A reporter for the British broadcaster Channel 4 went undercover as a Facebook moderator at CPL Resources. The person found that Facebook was failing to delete shocking images of graphic violence, child abuse, and racism, including a little boy being beaten by an adult man.
Note to non-archivist/librarian readers: this blog post is largely professional insider discussion and, while it may be interesting to some of you it will likely be tl;dr for many others. You have …
Society of American Archivists Attn: Council members 17 North State Street Suite 1425 Chicago, IL 60602-406110 September 2014Dear members of the SAA Council,I am writing to you as a member and crit…