DARPA wants AI to moderate social media groups, mitigate ‘destructive ideas’ during humanitarian efforts
DARPA is launching a new research project called Civil Sanctuary to develop multilingual AI moderators to mitigate "destructive ideas" while...
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Google-backed RAND report recommends infiltrating & subverting online conspiracy groups from within
Google's Jigsaw unit sponsors a RAND report that recommends infiltrating and subverting online conspiracy groups from within while planting authoritative...
The rise of TikTok: What are the components of a successful social media platform? (podcast)
There is no doubt that 2020 will be remembered as the year that COVID lockdowns stole from us, but it...
Twitter to strip blue checks from some accounts, add new verification criteria in policy update
Twitter is taking a "new approach to verification," updating criteria for granting new blue check marks, along with a foundation...
If Twitter really wants to give ‘links to a broader conversation’ on disputed posts, why not show both sides?
If the idea behind flagging posts as "disputed" and directing users to alternative links on Twitter is really about providing...
Understanding the dangers of social media (podcast)
Social media has become such a deeply entrenched part of our lives, that abandoning it all together seems like an...
Sex neuroscientist on technology and the ‘sexual recession’ of younger generations (podcast)
According to Psychology Today, there are numerous reasons why younger generations are having less sex than previous generations. Dating apps and...
‘Rectify fake news, anti-socialist content or be dealt with severely’: China’s cyber police tells its big tech companies
Both the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and American big tech companies seek to regulate fake news, out-of-context headlines, and content...
Senate Judiciary Committee considers subpoenas for Facebook, Twitter CEOs over censoring NY Post
The Senate Judiciary Committee will consider authorizing subpoenas to compel testimony from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg...
Facebook to censor anything it deems necessary to avoid ‘adverse legal or regulatory impacts’
Facebook will start removing user content that could get the social media giant into legal or regulatory trouble in a...
‘When technology takes control of our information environment, it takes control of humanity’: Center for Humane Tech president
When technology like AI takes control of our information environment, then it takes control of the fate of humanity, according...
House Intel Committee ditches script, grills big tech on polarizing users and toxic civic discourse
Today, representatives from big tech companies Google, Facebook, and Twitter testified remotely in a virtual hearing before the House Intelligence...
Social media platforms caught up in information overload amid coronavirus pandemic
“That medicine, hydroxychloroquine, it’s working,” said Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in a video posted on his Facebook page on Sunday,...
Teens on TikTok: do the benefits outweigh the risks?
Video app TikTok is quickly rising in popularity, especially among teenagers, but with safety, privacy, and national security concerns, do...
Intel agency awards contract to company that harvests social media text, data
IARPA awards a research contract for extracting data from text to Raytheon BBN, which harvests the text of social media...
The impact of social media on modern protest movements and democracy
As people increasingly turn to platforms like Facebook to organize anti-government movements, it’s important people understand social media’s impact on...
Dissecting Facebook’s ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’ removal policy
Facebook announces it has removed dozens of pages and accounts from Iran that were involved in what the social media...
Who discerns what is fake news and why don’t we decide for ourselves?
Governments across the world are implementing policies and practices to control the fake news monster of social media. However, who...
Social media may give millennials anxiety now, but paradigms have a way of shifting
Digital technology has been blasted time and again for causing mental health problems among the millennials and Gen Z’ers. It...
White House wants to hear your experience with online political censorship
The Trump White House is asking people to share their stories of being censored online due to political bias with...
