Working with publicly available metadata from Twitter, a machine learning algorithm was able to identify users with 96.7 per cent accuracy

A researcher argues it’s time to take a new look at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act—a 20-year-old law that shields internet platforms from liability for material posted by users.

PALO ALTO, CA—All 1,472 employees of Facebook, Inc. reportedly burst out in uncontrollable laughter Wednesday following Albuquerque resident Jason Herrick's attempts to protect his personal information from exploitation on the social-networking site. "Look, he's clicking 'Friends Only' for his e-mail address. Like…

Self-censorship.

Safari is pushing back against share buttons

Whether we like it or not, online connection engenders some decidedly bad behavior. It's one of those unintended consequences that I like to talk about -- a behavioral side effect that's catalyzed by technology.  And, if this is the case, we should know a little more about the psychology behind this behavior.

A federal suit filed in December claimed older workers missed out on job opportunities because ads on Facebook targeted younger users. Now plaintiffs say Facebook’s tools and algorithm gave employers ways to intensify the effects of such targeting.

When companies ask for sociable, flexible, compassionate workers, they’re silently signaling women to sign on to an undervalued job that powers the digital economy.

Worried about what’s out there about you? You’re not alone. But is it even possible to become a digital ghost?

Methods activate ‘same brain mechanisms as cocaine’ and leads to users experiencing ‘phantom’ notification buzzing, experts warn

Blockthrough helps the world's largest publishers recover the revenue they are losing due to ad blockers in a way that respects user choice.

Homophily sucks.

Academics have scoured Facebook pages in the name of science. But the troves they’ve amassed are sometimes unsecured and now pose a privacy risk.

The Golden State Killer, who terrorized Californians from Sacramento to Orange County over the course of a decade, committed his last known murder in 1986, the …

According to Annemarie Bridy, Professor of Law at the University of Idaho and Affiliate Scholar at Stanford Law School Center […]

Open sharing of social media data raises new ethical questions that researchers, repositories and data curators must confront, with little existing guidance available. In this paper, the authors draw upon their experiences in their multiple roles as data curators, academic librarians, and researchers to propose the STEP framework for curating and sharing social media data. The framework is intended to be used by data curators facilitating open publication of social media data. Two case studies from the Dryad Digital Repository serve to demonstrate implementation of the STEP framework. The STEP framework can serve as one important ‘step’ along the path to achieving safe, ethical, and reproducible social media research practice.

Even those who designed our digital world are aghast at what they created. A breakdown of what went wrong.

Social computing systems such as Twitter present new research sites that have provided billions of data points to researchers. However, the availability of publ...

An estimated two-thirds of tweeted links to popular websites are posted by automated accounts – not human beings.