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The scheme, dubbed “DiCaprio,” shows how common ad fraud has become in the connected TV industry.
The ability to keep personal information from being searchable online is at the crux of the debate around the "right to be forgotten."
A new, comprehensive code will compel online services to put children’s health and safety before data-collecting profits.
In a growing list of criminal cases, attorneys for Facebook, Twitter and other social...
Twitter bots have been around for almost as long as Twitter itself, and plenty of them are funny, provocative, or downright useful. But just like everything else online, there’s a dark side to the world of Twitter bots, as a recent report from The New York Times made clear.
This Article assesses recent efforts to encourage online platforms to use automated means to prevent the dissemination of unlawful online content before it is e
Learn how to acquire Twitter data and process them to make them usable for further analysis.
A real problem for any research method relying on humans (e.g. crowdsourcing) to classify utterances. Suggested mitigator at end.
From Black Lives Matter to #OscarsSoWhite, the decade would not have been the same without black voices on social media
Two tech anthropologists analyze the ways that online abusers coordinate their attacks and target people across platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, email, and even Yelp.
Instagram is steering paedophiles towards accounts belonging to children as young as 11, who should not be on the platform in the first place, a Sunday Times investigation has found.Predators who follow users posting photos of young models, dancers or gymnasts are shown a stream of other images they
“The bugs on Facebook are like the garbage on 57th Street. I’ve stopped noticing.”
Twitter just announced that it is planning to free up usernames for inactive accounts. While that means that the coveted Twitter handle you’ve been eyeing might finally be yours, if you happen to grab it before anyone else, Twitter’s move comes with an unfortunate side effect: If someone you love is no longer around…
Firefox is getting ready to turn on its automatic anti-snooping tools to stop web ‘fingerprinting” tricks.
This report is part of an ongoing, multi-year study by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School into the relationship between large-scale technology companies and journalism. This research is generously funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Open Society Foundations, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Abrams Foundation, and […]
When it comes to online harassment protection, Slack is slacking off.
The Social Feed Manager, created by officials in 2013, has supported more than 300 GW community members' research projects since its launch.
As the logic of data-driven metrification reconfigures various realms of social and economic life, cultural workers—from journalists and musicians to photograph...
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
How to ethically conduct online platform-based research remains an unsettled issue and the source of continued controversy. The Facebook emotional contagion stu...