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Researchers who investigate sensitive topics may face online harassment, social shaming, or other networked forms of abuse. In addition to potential impacts on the researcher’s reputation and mental health, fear of harassment may have a chilling effect on the type of research that is conducted and the capabilities of individual researchers. This document is a […]
The company’s rules help to show how it distinguishes between free speech and hate speech. Judge for yourself.
Twitter has blundered into yet another moderation crisis after it temporarily suspended the account of actress Rose McGowan as she was using its platform to speak out against sexual harassment of women in the wake of sexual abuse allegations coming out against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
BuzzFeed News analyzed the data of a real person on Twitter and the data of several Twitter accounts that seem automated to better understand how we may be able to spot a bot online.
Nature - Concern over the use of public data spurs guideline update.
Facebook's News Feed acts like "slot machine for the brain."
The tactics of carefully targeted, data-driven manipulation—though innovative and destabilizing—are not entirely new. They predate the existence of Cambridge Analytica, and Facebook, and the contemporary notion of “fake news” itself. For decades, digital marketers—working in both commercial and political domains—have been perfecting models for using consumer data to identify and manipulate decision-making vulnerabilities.
The problems Facebook are facing today are the result of running into the future without considering unintended consequences, much like Microsoft and the Internet. There are clear solutions for the…
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The problems with Facebook’s ad tool are the predictable outcome of rudimentary automation coupled with bad human behavior.
Slate placed an ad targeting people interested in “killing haji,” “ku-klux-klan,” and more.
After being contacted by ProPublica, Facebook removed several anti-Semitic ad categories and promised to improve monitoring.
The Paradox of Tolerance says that a tolerant society should be intolerant of one thing: intolerance itself. This is because if a tolerant society allows intolerance to take over, it will destroy t…
In her new book, 'Crash Override,' Zoë Quinn argues that overly opaque Terms of Service can perpetuate online abuse.
A treasure trove of PII from social networks and the public Internet is there for the taking.
The parallel rise of pervasive data collection platforms and computational methods for collecting, analyzing, and drawing inferences from large quantities of us...