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'Wake-up call': Iowa caucus disinformation serves as warning about 2020 election

The specificity of both Twitter and Facebook’s rules around disinformation leave room for known disinformation agents to work during elections, said Joan Donovan.

"The fact that a known disinformation operation enjoyed hyper-engagement on Facebook shows that Facebook has not been able to stop the weaponization of their product by those with some well-placed resources.”

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Intersection of Race and Technology

BKC fellow Mutale Nkonde joined Sunday Civics to discuss disinformation targeted towards Black communities.

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Facebook, Google and Twitter scramble to stop misinformation about coronavirus

Joan Donovan spoke to The Washington Post about the coronavirus and misinformation:

“We’re in a low information zone. Scientists have been looking at this, but there isn’t a ton of well marked patterns around how this particular virus spreads,” said Donovan.

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Facebook announces new details about independent oversight board for content moderation

evelyn douek weighed in on the upsides and shortcomings drawbacks of Facebook‘s new content moderation policy. 

“While it’s unacceptable to be having completely unaccountable and private entities making decisions, we also don’t want governments having their hands all over it. … So the oversight board is a new model for handling this.”

Here's why the UK is (finally) dumping Article 13 for good

The UK had plenty of opportunities to veto the controversial EU copyright legislation, so why did it wait so long to torpedo Article 13?

Inside the Assembly Student Fellowship

Zenzele Best, Program Coordinator for Assembly: Disinformation, offers an inside look at the Assembly Student Fellowship.

Coronavirus misinformation surges, fueled by clout chasers

Joan Donovan and Natalie Gyenes spoke to NBC News about the coronavirus and misinformation. 

“Just as platforms have provided the capacity to mobilize massive crowds, it also scales scams and fake charities in ways that the public falls prey to,” said Donovan. “We’ve seen similar attempts at keyword squatting by influencers using ecological crises and other significant events to raise money for themselves.”

Nat Gyenes said public health officials and organizations will have to compete harder if they’re to outpace misinformation.

Q&A: Misinformation and Coronavirus

We asked members of Berkman Klein’s Misinformation Working Group their thoughts about misinformation and the virus.

“Pandemics reasonably create fear, which can be capitalized upon by actors seeking to sensationalize the pandemic,” says Assembly: Disinformation staff fellow Oumou Ly.

Read more on Medium

Who Needs the Russians?

Don’t blame shadowy foreign hackers for the chaos in Iowa. Blame Shadow’s caucus app, says faculty associate Zeynep Tufekci.

”If the Russians were responsible for this confusion and disarray, that might be a relatively easy problem to fix. This is worse.”

Read more on The Atlantic

Estágio na Coordenação de Graduação

Número de vagas: 1INSCRIÇÕES ENCERRADAS
A Coordenação de Graduação da FGV Direito Rio procura um estagiário de Administração de Empresas.
Requisitos:

  • Estudante de administração de empresas;
  • Organização e pró-atividade;
  • Domínio do Pacote Office, principalmente Excel;
  • Espírito de equipe;
  • Disponibilidade de horário para estagiar 6h por dia.

Atividades:

​Prof Su Guaning, President Emeritus of NTU Singapore, elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering

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Mentoring für erfolgreiche Karrieren

Mit einem Frauenanteil von 24 Prozent bei den Professuren liegt die HHU im Mittelfeld der deutschen Universitäten. Dass hier noch Luft nach oben sei, betonte Schirmherrin Rektorin Prof. Dr. Anja Steinbeck in ihrem Grußwort. Sie ermutigte alle Frauen, weniger selbstkritisch zu sein und sich ihre eigene Leistung bewusst zu machen. 15 Postdocs der Gruppe SelmaMeyerMED+ erhielten anschließend ihr Zertifikat und die neuen Habilitandinnen wurden begrüßt.

Announcing the launch of the GovLab’s CrowdLaw for Congress project

The GovLab at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering is pleased to announce the launch of CrowdLaw for Congress (congress.crowd.law) — a free, online course and resource kit including training videos, case studies and a “playbook” of practical strategies showcasing how and why legislatures are using technology to engage the public in lawmaking

Open Data Day 2020

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Learn, Contribute, and Engage! Introducing the Chapters Training Program!

Our members play a vital role in working for an open, globally-connected, and secure Internet for all – through their experience, knowledge, and passion. For this reason, we’re excited to announce the Internet Society’s 2020 Chapters Training Program.

Which Tech Companies Are Doing the Most Harm?

Mutale Nkonde joined Slate's technology podcast What Next: TBD to discuss Alphabet and inherent bias.

“You can effectively use Google products in every single area  of your life, and the underlying algorithms are going to have problems of bias not because Google is a terrible company or the computer scientists are racist, it’s just the fact that they are using societal data and our data has inherent biases.”

Listen to the podcast from Slate

How Web 3 can use Google-like tactics to keep users

A new product claims that it offers a way for companies to send in-app notifications while maintaining user privacy. Elizabeth Renieris warns that this may be “rebuilding what blockchain set out to disrupt.”

Read more in Decrypt

Reflections on Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019

By Sangh Rakshita and Nidhi Singh  The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 (PDP Bill/ Bill) was introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 11, 2019 , and was immediately referred to a joint committee of the Parliament. The joint committee published a press communique on February 4, 2020 inviting comments on the Bill from the […]

Social Purpose Organizations and Digitalization: Towards an Inclusive and Sustainable Transformation

Organizations pursuing social and or environmental goals are different from corporations. Rather than maximizing on profits, they pursue multiple social, environmental, and economic goals simultaneously. They marshal local, underused resources and create public goods for society rather than focus on generating private gains. Because of this, we propose, they face specific challenges and opportunities when…

"Konsequenzen des Populismus für den öffentlichen Diskurs"

Landtagspräsident André Kuper hatte die Veranstalter Julian Pöhling vom Institut für Philosophie der HHU und Michael Angenendt vom Institut für Deutsches und Internationales Parteienrecht und Parteienforschung (PRuF) eingeladen und sprach am Abend das Grußwort. Zusammen mit den Gästen Brigitte Baetz (Deutschlandfunk), Prof. Dr. Frank Decker (Universität Bonn) und Prof. Dr. Christoph Lumer (Universität Siena) diskutierten  Michael Angenendt und Julian Pöhling die Herausforderungen des Populismus aus einer argumentationstheoretischen Perspektive.