Number of Posts: 163
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He Tweeted About Chinese Government Corruption. Twitter Suspended His Account.
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 26.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, law, privacy, Twitter
Summary | A Chinese billionaire has publically denuciated Chinese government officials on Twitter by posting images of documents that evidence corruption. His account was suspended by Twitter for a few hours because the shared documents contained personal information which Twitter usually flags.
Image Description | Portrait of Guo Wengui.
Image Tags | male(s)
Father in Thailand Kills 11-Month-Old Daughter Live on Facebook
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 25.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, censorship, Facebook, law, threat
Summary | Since Facebook has enabled its livestream functions many crimes have been broadcasted on Facebook. Facebook still struggles to take such offensive content down. Recently a man livestreamed himself killing his daughter and the recording stayed online for twenty hours. Facebook needs to improve its artificial intelligence mechanism to flag such content faster.
Image Description | Reuters image of people crying.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Facebook has a plan to let you type with your brain
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 19.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | brain, Facebook, privacy, word/writing
Summary | Facebook is working on a new technology that would let users type a hundred words per second with their thoughts only. If they could find a way to tap into brain signals it would be a huge leap for augmented reality. Many users are however already worried that Facebook is intruding in their privacy and are anxious about Facebook taping into their brains.
Image Description | A woman standing in front of the Facebook logo.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), logo
Facebook lets streams of depravity flow freely
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 19.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, Facebook, fake news, law, pornography, privacy, threat
Summary | Facebook is facing many criticisms about its poor enforcement of basic standards of content on the platform. Multiple violent live streams have been uploaded to Facebook in the past in it always took Facebook too long to take them down. Their algorithm to weed out pornography has backfired when they censored a historic photograph of a napalm victim from the Vietnam War because it registered as child pornography. After much denial, Facebook are finally taking steps against fake news spreading on their platform. All this may be called censorship but without moderation there can be no free speech because bullies dominate the discourse.
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Daily Report: Facebook Struggles With Being Responsible
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 18.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, law, pornography, threat
Summary | Facebook and other social media have a huge problem with inappropriate or criminal content being posted to their platforms. Recently, a man in Ohio posted a video to Facebook of him shooting and killing a man. It took Facebook two hours to take it down. So far, artificial intelligence algorithms have been very successful in detecting nudity/pornography and blocking it but finding violent content is still very much dependent on user action.
Image Description | Getty image of Mark Zuckerberg biting his lips.
Image Tags | Facebook, male(s)
The 'empowered consumer' doesn't get much say
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 16.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | marketing, privacy, social media, threat
Summary | The perceived multiplication of choices in consumer culture, for example when buying a plane ticket (optional luggage fees, insurance fees, prioritized boarding fees, etc.), just looks like an advantage for the consumer on the surface. In the end, we end up paying more and giving away our data. The data will in turn be used to milk consumers even further by knowing to which advertisements they are particularly susceptible.
Image Description | Airport check-in area.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
We tried Google's new fact-check filter on the Internet's favorite hoaxes
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 10.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | fake news, Google
Summary | Google has been working towards fact-checking the stories on Google News and enabling users to fact-check critical information quickly. Unfortunately, it does not always work. Oftentimes finding the correct information depends on which particular words are typed in the search bar.
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Where Non-Techies Can Get With the Programming
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 4.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | computer programming, digitized education, research/study
Summary | Computer programming is the new lingua franca of modern economy. Introductory classes are increasingly popular at universities with 90% of Standford students taking an introductory computer programming class. Coding can be useful for lawyers, doctors, historians, and even students from the humanities because learning to code entails learning computational thinking.
Image Description | Illustration with a diverse group of faces connexted to written computer code.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), text
Taking a break from the news
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 13.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | smartphone, technology-free, texting, youth
Summary | The author describes his vacation in Europe and notices a table of four Dutch teenagers in a café just talking to each other face to face like people used to do in the United States. No one was holding a smartphone, checking their messages, texting, posting something on social media or similar.
Image Description | Lake with hourses and boats.
How can women build better friendships? Start with the right words.
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 11.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | research/study, social media, texting, threat
Summary | Linguist Deborah Tannen has just published her latest book about how women build their friendships through language. Communicating with friends and negotiating the terms of the friendship is fraught with risks especially now that social media lets one know exactly when one is being exluded from group activities. Texting also complicates our friendships.
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