A.I. / Liars During the summer before the 2016 presidential election, John Seymour and Philip Tully, two researchers with ZeroFOX, a security company in Baltimore, unveiled a new kind of Twitter bot. By analyzing patterns of activity on the social…
Jornalista / Bolsonaro O presidente Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) bloqueou, no dia 22/12, a conta do Twitter do jornalista e editor-executivo do site de reportagem “The Intercept”, Leandro Demori. Além disso, outros jornalistas do mesmo site afirmam que também foram bloqueados pelo…
Facebook / Election Immediately after the 2016 election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dismissed as “crazy” the notion that fake news stories disseminated over his platform had influenced the outcome of the presidential race. Facing an outpouring of criticism about Facebook’s role in spreading…
Levantamento / Wikipédia A candidata a vice-presidente Manuela D'Ávila, a cantora Melody e o jogador francês Kylian Mbappé foram os que mais ascenderam nos últimos anos em suas áreas. Ao menos para os usuários Wikipédia em português. Fonte: Folha de S.…
Integração de dados / Administração O Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU) verificou uma série de indícios de irregularidades em dados de sistemas governamentais. Sob a relatoria do ministro Vital do Rêgo, as falhas foram identificadas por meio de análise…
Artificial Intelligence / Explain Artificial intelligence software can recognize faces, translate between Mandarin and Swahili, and beat the world’s best human players at such games as Go, chess, and poker. What it can’t always do is explain itself. Fonte: Bloomberg Leia todo…
Transparency / Corruption This year’s Corruption Perceptions Index highlights that the majority of countries are making little or no progress in ending corruption, while further analysis shows journalists and activists in corrupt countries risking their lives every day in an…
News / Facebook You probably saw the commercial, ubiquitous across television earlier this year: “We came here for the friends.” The narrator, sounding just a little like a younger Mark Zuckerberg, skipped us through pictures of kids in braces, awkward bands,…
O PONTE/UFPR (Grupo de Pesquisa em Comunicação, Política e Tecnologia) e o DISCORD/UTFPR (Grupo de Pesquisa Discurso, Comunicação e Democracia) divulgam o calendário de suas reuniões para o semestre 2019/1. Os encontros acontecem nas datas listadas abaixo,…
Populism / Age "Populism” as a term was rarely used in the 20th century; it was limited to US historians describing, in highly specific terms, the original agrarian populists of the mid-19th century. Latin American social scientists (often Marxists) focused…
