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Hitting the Books: America needs a new public data system

Post author By Randall
Post date July 25, 2020
Categories In democratizing our data, demographics, feature, hitting the books, hittingthebooks, julia lane, mit press, nyu, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] MIT Press Excerpted from Democratizing Our Data: A Manifesto by Julia Lane. Reprinted with permission from The MIT PRESS. Copyright 2020. On sale as an ebook now. On sale in print 9/1/2020. Nowadays when people have an appointment to go to across town, their calendar app obligingly predicts how long it’s going to take […]

NYU report lists likely social media disinformation tactics for 2020

Post author By Randall
Post date September 5, 2019
Categories In China, disinformation, Entertainment, Facebook, fake news, Instagram, iran, nyu, Politics, propaganda, Russia, Security, Tech

[ad_1] The report largely rehashes how fake news has evolved in the aftermath of 2016, to something as likely to spread on Instagram or Whatsapp as on Facebook, or as likely to come from domestic actors as from Russia. “Disinformation poses a major threat to the U.S. presidential election in 2020, with the potential to […]