Author: Kalev Leetaru

Editorialized Language Imperils Trust in Fact-Checking

Targeted Ads Reinforce Bias By Seeing Only A Slice Of Our Lives

As Deep Learning Comes For Medicine How Do We Work Around Its Brittleness?

Is It Time To Regulate Biased And Harmful Stereotypes In Social Media Ads?

Facebook's Content Moderators As Modern Coal Miners

Is Social Media Simply Too Sick And Depraved To Continue?

Ransomware Highlights The Vulnerabilities Of Aging City IT

Could Web Archives Serve As Canonical Online Imagery Archives To Combat Deep Fakes?

The Right To Unplug And Silence The World

Are Smartphone Dashboards Misleading Us?

Our Smart Devices Should Warn Us About Cyberattacks And Data Reuse

Fighting Deep Fakes Through Cellular Verification

Do Instagram's Ads Reinforce Harmful Stereotypes?

App And Device Development Today Is About Data Collection

Is Social Media's Toxicity Because Of The Web's Shift From Enlightenment To Entertainment?

Are Behaviorally Targeted And Interest-Based Ads Really As Powerful As We Claim?

Much Of Our Government Digital Surveillance Is Outsourced To Private Companies

The Importance Of Canary Ads For Social Media Analytics

Sometimes Data Science Is Not About Giving Answers Its About Asking Better Questions

Data Scientists Need To Get Better About Communicating Uncertainty And Risk In Their Results

Our Smart Technologies Will Increasingly Report Us To Law Enforcement

Why Is Addictive Social Media Bad While Addictive Streaming Movie Platforms Are Good?

Social Media Is Not A Replacement For Professional Polling

Diverging Patterns Of Interaction Around News On Social Media: Insularity And Partisanship During The 2018 Italian Election Campaign

WashPost: Democrats Fret Over The Never-Ending Trump Show

Is 'Big Data' About What We Do With Our Data Not How Much Of It We Have?

The Web At 30 And Its Invisible And Omnipresent Future

Will Future Robocallers Spoof The Voices Of Our Friends And Family?

Is 'Governance By Twitter' Destroying Cooperation?

Could AI Enable The Idea Of 'Reverse Fact Checking'?