Anonymous social media app Sidechat has become both a place for dialog and a breeding ground for hate speech amid US college protests over the Israel-Hamas war
“How Sidechat Fanned the Flames of University Campus Protests” — https://www.wired.com/... “Amid tensions about free speech on university campuses and the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, anonymous social...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement on Twitter Spaces was delayed by ~25 minutes of crashes, feedback glitches, and audio failures
even after Ron DeSantis' glitchy campaign kick off Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal : Twitter's Flaws Snag Elon Musk's Media Ambitions Steve Peoples / Associated Press : DeSantis set to make m...
A look at “OPMs”, companies which manage online courses for universities like Harvard and Yale, and take a 60% cut typically from tuition fees
The price of college is breaking America. At a moment when Hollywood celebrities and private equity titans have allegedly … Tweets: @bluegrasscap , @abbasabbasov , @ricetopher , @ernestezeugo , @kevi...
A look at how deepfakes, with recent software advances that easily create AI-generated fake audio and video, could be misused to undermine elections
PLENTY OF PEOPLE are following the final days of the midterm election campaigns. Yale law researcher Rebecca Crootof has a special interest—a small wager. Tweets: @nxthompson and @wired Tweets: Nicho...
Yale study: a “disputed” tag has only a tiny impact on perception of headlines on Facebook as being true or false; Facebook questions methodology
A Yale survey of 7,500 people shows little benefit, and possible detriments, to fact-check programs.