Analyzing blackout drinking culture on Twitter during lockdown (podcast)

4 years ago

Humans are social creatures, and self-isolation and living in quarantine can have a very negative impact on mental health. Therefore,…

Parallel18, the accelerator from Puerto Rico, provides funding for 39 startups impacted by COVID-19

4 years ago

The economic reverberations of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus are still not yet fully understood. The OECD in September…

‘Twitter is sabotaging public discourse regarding important national and homeland security issues’: DHS acting secretary

4 years ago

"Twitter is sabotaging public discourse regarding important national and homeland security issues," writes the Department of Homeland Security acting secretary…

DARPA to ‘exploit social media, messaging & blog data’ to track geopolitical influence campaigns

4 years ago

The power to monitor, track, and potentially quash online campaigns before they become popular is getting a whole lot easier.…

Human API raises $20M so you can share your health data with institutions you trust, spurring innovation

4 years ago

The rise of wearable technology has made it possible to constantly track everything from your blood pressure and heart rate…

Facebook ‘relied heavily on FBI’ briefings before trying to prevent NY Post story from ‘spreading wildly’: Zuckerberg

4 years ago

Facebook took its cue from the FBI before it decided to limit the distribution of the NY Post's "smoking gun"…

Twitter censored the NY Post for ‘showing direct material’ to back up claims, violated hacked materials policy: Dorsey

4 years ago

Facing a grilling in the Senate, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies that Twitter censored the New York Post for "showing…

Senate is hovering over Twitter & Facebook: Dorsey, Zuckerberg to both testify before & after election

4 years ago

Two Senate committees are hovering over two big tech targets, with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey…

The psychology of conspiracy theory beliefs (podcast)

4 years ago

To understand why conspiracy theories receive such strong support from groups of people across the world, we are joined by…

Conflicts of interest with Facebook censorship, the Atlantic Council, Burisma & politics: perspective

4 years ago

While receiving nearly half a million dollars from Burisma, the Atlantic Council partnered with Facebook to monitor election misinformation. Then,…