In a society beset with black-boxed algorithms and vast surveillance systems, transparency is often hailed as liberal democracy’s superhero. It’s a familiar story: inject the public with information to digest, then await their rational deliberation and improved decision making. Whether…
Online gendered and sexualized abuse and disinformation against women in public life is widespread, and social media platforms are doing too little to stop it, finds a landmark study by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Moonshot CVE, with support from the Oxford…
Experts / Disinformation Trump’s false claims about the election and coronavirus are taking a dangerous toll. Can the divide be healed? Fonte: The Guardian Leia todo o texto Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/01/disinformation-us-election-covid-pandemic-trump-biden?fbclid=IwAR3hUaT2BHF_EUSCDZp2O4e9ncAZErSRgiz0oeVKPPGK8xSgoLPNzGR-zmk Leia outros textos aqui
Vigilance / Disinformation Executives from Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Google told U.S. lawmakers they are combating disinformation on a range of subjects including the 2020 election and have taken down videos, posts and messages deemed false and a risk to…
Facebook / Privacy Violations As Facebook assumed its central role in the information landscape, the company quietly made decisions that boosted profits with little regard to the consequences for privacy, politics, and the news industry. When those controversial calls and other…
