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Unless the federal government steps up, the unchecked middlemen of surveillance capitalism will continue to harm our civil rights and national security.
An internal task force found that Facebook failed to take appropriate action against the Stop the Steal movement ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, and hoped the company could “do better next time.”
A fierce battle over the regulation of the internet was riddled with millions of fake comments in the most prolific known instance of political impersonation in US history.
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.
Voter suppression.
Existing approaches to cybersecurity emphasize either international state-to-state logics (such as deterrence theory) or the integrity of individual information
Not that long ago almost all political advertising was clearly visible in the physical world. Posters, newspaper ads and pamphlets were widely circulated, collected and preserved. It is not unlikely that you are able to walk into an antiquarian book shop and find examples of political propaganda hundreds of years old. Other copies will end …
Long after the training data has been deleted, the models can continue being improved and used to influence future voters.
In response to the tragic Portland stabbing , I wrote a Twitter thread praising the two men who died defending Muslim women on a train....
We live in a time defined not by concord, but by conflict.
The Long Read: The ability of statistics to accurately represent the world is declining. In its wake, a new age of big data controlled by private companies is taking over – and putting democracy in peril
That may not seem transparent. But politicians on Twitter are making our politics more riven
From Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World.
Political campaigns using big-data analysis techniques to win elections. Journalists having trouble keeping up.