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Mark Zuckerberg, serial witness, takes the hot seat againZuckerberg on Monday again took the hot seat, this time as the marquee witness in the Federal Trade Commission's landmark lawsuit accusing ...
Trump's affinity for Putin grows more consequential than everIn early 2017, U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered in the American presidential election ...
Whistleblower allegation: Harvard muzzled disinformation team after $500 million Mark Zuckerberg donationIn a whistleblower disclosure made public Monday, prominent disinformation scholar Joan Donovan seeks investigations into "inappropriate in...
From virtual safe space to epicentre of hate: How X (d)evolved under Elon Musk's leadershipUnder Elon Musk's watch, millions of people have been exposed to misinformation about climate change and subjected to racist rants and anti...
The consequences of Elon Musk's ownership of XThe war between Israel and Hamas -- the sort of major news event that once made Twitter an essential source of information and debate -- ha...
Don't expect quick fixes in ‘red-teaming’ of AI models, security was an afterthoughtCurrent AI models are simply too unwieldy, brittle and malleable, academic and corporate research shows. Security was an afterthought in th...
View: You are the object of a secret extraction operationFacebook and other leading surveillance capitalist corporations now control information flows and communication infrastructures across the ...
Amazon to proactively remove more content that violates rules from cloud service: ReportAmazon will hire a small group of people in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) division to develop expertise and work with outside researchers t...
Through Covid, US is getting a crash course in scientific uncertaintyScientific understanding of the virus changes by the hour, it seems. The virus spreads only by close contact or on contaminated surfaces, a...
The misinformation guide: Coronavirus created perfect conditions for conspiracy theoriesTheir claims were explosive, but the evidence was weak.
Anatomy of a conspiracy: With COVID-19, China took leading roleA nine-month investigation of state-sponsored disinformation conducted in collaboration with the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Resear...
YouTube comes under fire for lax approach on overseas election misinformationBut half a world away in Myanmar, which held a general election just five days after the U.S. vote and faced a tidal wave of online misinfo...
View: The change of guard in the US is an opportunity to enforce true accountability over the internet industryPublic opinion has shifted dramatically over the past three years to the extent that in 2020, people believe that big tech exerts far too m...
India and coronavirus: Lucky escape or emergency ahead?India on Friday imposed some of the world's toughest border measures in the current crisis.
China lab says conspiracy theories hurting efforts to curb virusThe institute has been accused of "artificially synthesising" the coronavirus in one of its laboratories, it said. It also referred to othe...