Author: Kalev Leetaru

Today's Disinformation Research Could Learn Much From Last Century's Propaganda Research

History Tells Us Social Media Regulation Is Inevitable

Movies And The News Media Were Once The Root Of All Evil – Today It Is Social Media

We See Social Media As All-Powerful Because We Can Measure It

Social Media Has Become The Scapegoat For All Society's Ills Just Like TV And Movies Before

Fox News Can’t Stop Talking About Bernie Sanders

Why Are We Still Using Century-Old Discredited Theories To Explain The Power Of Social Media?

Why Do We Blame Social Media For Being Addictive Instead Of Ourselves?

Are Facebook's Privacy And Security Scandals Actually Helping It?

Governments Can't Regulate Social Media Because They Are Too Dependent On It

Does Facebook Survive Because Of Its Size Or Because We Gave Up On Privacy And Security?

Facebook Demands Email Passwords Then Quietly Uploads Contact Lists But Once Again We Don't Care

Scientific Visualizations For Teaching Used To Mean Plaster Models

Big Data Can Help Us See Through Government Redactions

We Are Voluntarily Surrendering The Data We Long Fought To Protect

Our Entire AI Revolution Is Built On A Correlation House Of Cards

Cameras Construct Reality Rather Than Capture Truth

Once Upon A Time We Had To Convince People To Share Their Thoughts

WashPost: Actually, The Mueller Report Showed That Russia Did Affect The Vote

Social Media Is Reverting Society From Adults Back Into Children

Facebook's Terrible Automatic Video Captions Are No Laughing Matter

AI Package Delivery Drones Are Just Killer Robots In Waiting

Instagram's Seizure Of Sussexroyal And Our Lack Of Digital Property Rights

Facebook's Password Breach Is Even Worse But It Won't Matter Because We Don't Care

Why Do We Believe What We Read On The Internet?

We're Increasingly Experiencing Events Through Live Streaming

Deep Learning And The Limits Of Learning By Correlation Rather Than Causation

Waymo Reminds Us: Successful Complex AI Combines Deep Learning And Traditional Code

500 Forbes Columns And Counting

As The Cloud Courts The Enterprise It Goes Big Memory