Researchers say Big Tech's political ad bans are a charade and likely had minimal impact on curbing misinformation while hurting smaller advocacy groups
they actively advantage corporations over advocacy groups and unions. Platforms either need to fix this or drop the bans entirely. More of my 🌶️ takes in this 🧠 piece by @issielapowsky: https://www.pr...
Center for Countering Digital Hate: Facebook did not label 50.5% of posts linking to 184 climate change denial articles from 10 publishers since May 2021
including Exxon's defeat Doug Cunningham / UPI : Facebook failing to counter climate change misinformation Tweets: @ccdhate : 🚨NEW: CCDH research shows Facebook is failing to label half of content fro...
Gebru's firing reveals tech's ability to co-opt and minimize criticism of its AI systems, highlighting the need for tech unions, research protection, regulation
and offer some suggestions for how to begin fixing it. https://www.wired.com/... @techwontsaveus : “The handful of people who are benefiting from AI's proliferation are shaping the academic and public...
Gebru's firing reveals tech's ability to co-opt and minimize criticism of its AI systems, highlighting the need for tech unions, research protection, regulation
The situation has made clear that the field needs to change. Here's where to start, according to a current and a former Googler. Tweets: @nin_sch , @math_rachel , @dataremixed , @emilymbender , @wire...
An obscure Indian firm provided hacking services to help spy on 10K+ email accounts over seven years, in one of the largest spy-for-hire operations ever exposed
New report from @citizenlab uncovering Dark Basin, a hack-for-hire group that has targeted thousands of individuals on six continents. Targets include advocacy groups and journalists, elected and seni...