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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) is dedicated to exploring the English countryside, its history, its people - and now bats. Their Twitter account, known for its dark, dry humor, tweeted out last fall that they had made a discovery in their rare book store that didn't quite fall under the usual artifact categories.
We influence each other in many ways besides pure reason. What’s the moral difference between persuasion and manipulation?
It used to make sense to believe something until it was debunked; now, it makes sense to assume certain claims are fake—unless they are verified.
A reporter for the British broadcaster Channel 4 went undercover as a Facebook moderator at CPL Resources. The person found that Facebook was failing to delete shocking images of graphic violence, child abuse, and racism, including a little boy being beaten by an adult man.
Former FTC chief technologist Ashkan Soltani argues it's time for Silicon Valley companies to formalize and test not just their products' security, but its "abusability."
To my good friend, Steve Steveington. Thank you for your email advising me of my impending doom and destruction. I’m sorry that it’s taken me so long to reply. Work has been crazy.
Social media is great for connecting people, sharing news and information, and giving your grandmother the opportunity to air her political opinions unfettered. Unfortunately, its anonymity and widespread reach makes it an easy way for people to spread hate, and since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, social media…
Instagram has been earning money from businesses flooding its social network with spam notifications. Instagram hypocritically continues to sell ad space to services that charge clients for fake followers or that automatically follow/unfollow other people to get them to follow the client back. This is despite Instagram reiterating a ban on these businesses in November […]
Privacy and surveillance scholars increasingly worry that data collectors can use the information they gather about our behaviors, preferences, interests, incom
And the finding holds true across party lines
Emerging as a comprehensive and aggressive governance scheme in China, the “Social Credit System” (SCS) seeks to promote the norms of “trust” in the Chinese soc
A nice history of the web.
Have you ever posted something incredibly beautiful and special and got no likes because almost nobody saw it, and then posted something incredibly trivial and likes started pouring in?
A Senate report finds that Russia's Internet Research Agency was far more active, and more successful, on Instagram in 2017 than on Facebook or Twitter.
Another angle on what's creepy and what isn't.
The videos by live streamer Patti Beers vary in length from seconds to hours.
A Facebook spokesperson declined to comment on whether advertisers influenced fact-checking, saying in an email, “The primary way we surface potentially false news to third-party fact-checkers is via machine learning.”
Users have been sharing their innocuous posts that have been deemed #TooSexyForTumblr.
Google executives ignored internal warnings about their censored China search plan and threatened that employees would be fired if they spoke out.
Project Dragonfly would allow Beijing to monitor users’ activity and open letter is latest sign of worker unrest at tech company