Getting hit from both sides: Executives from Google, Twitter, and Facebook faced criticism from all sides when testifying in the U.S. Senate recently, the Washington Post reports. Democratic senators told the companies they should do a better job with moderating their sites for fake news and conspiracy theories, while Republicans called on the companies to take a more hands-off role with political speech.
The 2020 US Presidential Election has shown that practices of social platform governance and content moderation decisions are more crucial than ever. While the transparency of these algorithmic systems remains low, they might crucially affect public opinion formation of the electorate and need to be therefore more accessible and better understood by researchers and policymakers.
When web developer Joel Galvez quit Facebook, he realized he had no accessible overview of events anymore – ‘newsletters and Instagram are just not the same, they give glimpses, but they don’t tell you what you could do this Saturday’. That’s why he started his project Public Data for Public Events (publicdata.events), a simple, low-tech, FLOSS solution, where you can curate your
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Antonio A. Casilli (Faculty Fellow Centro Nexa)
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This summary is provided as part of our Dialogue on Digital Transformation series.
This past spring, while the pandemic was worsening around us and the first shelter in place orders went into effect, I began an exploratory research project with then graduate student researcher (now Stanford Ph.D graduate) Andreas Katsanevas and a team of fantastic undergraduates: Claudia Bobadilla, Nivedha Kelley Soundappan, Emilia Porubcin (all from Stanford), and Morgan Livingston (U.C. Berkeley). Read more about Dark Patterns and the CCPA
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On Wednesday, Portulans Institute, in cooperation with UNESCO and ICANN, hosted a regional panel on Europe’s digital transformation, highlighting regional data from the 2020 Network Readiness Index (read our summary here).
Junto a mantener el distanciamiento social y la higiene constante de manos, el uso de mascarillas es una de las principales medidas para prevenir nuevos contagios de COVID-19.
"Probablemente algo que nos ha jugado en contra, es que este estallido nos pilla en un momento en que los distintos movimientos sociales y organizaciones estaban a la baja; que ninguno tenía liderazgos potentes", plantea la académica del Centro de Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos (CECLA) de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, quien analiza el escenario político actual, el remezón irremontable iniciado con el estallido social -marcado por "el hartazgo transversal con los niveles de abuso"-, y las potencialidades emancipatorias abiertas desde entonces.
If the internet is the most important battleground in next week’s U.S. presidential election, then Wikipedia is the Web’s neutral zone.
Last month, U.S. federal agencies issued a public service announcementwith a warning that bad actors could use the internet to spread disinformation in an effort to discredit the legitimacy of the voting process.