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A Facebook spokesperson declined to comment on whether advertisers influenced fact-checking, saying in an email, “The primary way we surface potentially false news to third-party fact-checkers is via machine learning.”
The messaging app owned by Facebook has become a major channel for hate speech and false stories in India. The government is demanding changes.
DON'T USE SOCIAL MEDIA AS AN ARCHIVE FFS. What did this dimwitted nimrod THINK was gonna happen?!
There is a war happening. We are immersed in an evolving, ongoing conflict: an Information World War in which state actors, terrorists, and ideological extremists leverage the social infrastructure…
The platform has been used to disrupt elections, disseminate propaganda and promote hate. Regular users should ask if they are implicated in these failings.
The civility debate sidesteps how false assumptions about harm online, coupled with the affordances of digital media, encourage toxicity
re Documenting the Now
Thanks to decades of research on political economy, we know how hard it is to check the powers of a king.
The personal website and blog of Daniel Long Sockwell, a lawyer-turned-programmer with an interest in web development, open source, and making things as simple as possible.
Companies and apps constantly ask for ratings, but all that data may just be noise in the system.
People cannot be equal participants in environments where they are subject to wildly unequal risk. People cannot be equal participants in environments where they are unequally threatened.
Black Twitter has grown into a vibrant digital community shaping political and cultural discourse. Does that place exist for Latinxs?
MPs challenge company chair over trawling applicants’ social media to inform loan decisions
Despite efforts against hateful and false content, those posts and videos are thriving. One Instagram search produced nearly 12,000 posts with the hashtag “#jewsdid911.”
About 60 percent of Twitter activity related to the caravan late last week was driven by bots, according to a new tool aimed at news organizations.
In the wake of school shootings, some are using social media monitoring companies like Social Sentinel to find threats. But critics have concerns.
Law review article, so probably a reference rather than an assigned reading in 351.
Terrance Everett has been on the wrong side of the law for most of his adult life. When he was 18, he had to register as a sex offender for having sex with a 15-year-old, because she was under the age of consent. In his 20s, he was, he says, “hanging with the wrong people doing the wrong things,” resulting in charges…