Author: Kalev Leetaru
Are Smartphones Making "Fake News" And Disinformation Worse?
Smartphones’ tiny screens and on-the-go usage promotes the very behaviors that help “fake news,” misinformation, disinformation and foreign influence spread,…
Public Crowdsourcing Vs Researchers In Libraries: Image Searching Lessons From World War II
Will the nascent world of deep learning image recognition help codify the vast knowledge of our professional image researchers and…
FiveThirtyEight: Biden Was All Over Cable News Last Week – And So Was Anita Hill
Dhrumil Mehta examines the week in review of the major Democratic presidential candidates. Read The Full Article.
Towards a Geographically Enriched Wikipedia: High Resolution Figures
In 2012 we explored the geography of the world through the eyes of Wikipedia and the broader field of fulltext…
Global Twitter Heartbeat: High Resolution Figures
When it debuted in 2013, the Global Twitter Heartbeat was the first in-depth look at the geography of social media,…
Culturomics 2.0: High Resolution Figures
When it debuted in 2011, Culturomics 2.0 profoundly reshaped how we think of conflict analysis and forecasting, garnering international fame,…
The GDELT Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) At 1 Year: 100 Billion URLs
GDELT's Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) launched in March of last year, accumulating more than 35 billion URLs in just its first five…
Twitter Sees Democracy Through The Lens Of 'Fake News' And That's Troubling
Twitter’s view of content moderation is both fascinating in how it reveals the company’s view of free speech in 2019…
As The Government And Emergency Agencies Shift To Twitter What Happens To Those Left Behind?
It shouldn’t be up to a private for-profit company to decide who has the right to call for help as…
From Savior To Suppressor: Can Democracy Survive Social Media?
Social media has gone from being the great savoir of democracy to its ultimate suppressor, deciding who has a voice…
Stopping Disinformation Requires Measuring And Understanding It Not Just Monitoring And Debunking It
Mitigating misinformation requires measuring and understanding it, not merely monitoring and debunking it. Read The Full Article.
Does Biden's Candidacy Suggest #MeToo Impact Is Waning?
As Joe Biden enters the 2020 presidential race, his pattern of intimate physical greetings linger as a potential early liability,…
As The Privacy Regulators Circle Facebook Is It Already Unstoppable?
To prevent regulation, Facebook could intervene in elections across the world to elect anti-regulation candidates, block elected officials from talking…
SCMP: How China Is Looking Beyond Borders
The South China Morning Post republishes data from Brussels-based think tank Bruegel mapping global media sentiment towards China's Belt and…
American Mathematical Society Covers Math Models
The American Mathematical Society's Public Awareness Officer Mike Breen writes about Kalev's Forbes article from earlier this month titled "Scientific…
Twitter's Changing User Metrics Remind Us How Powerful The Reality Distortion Field Is
Twitter reminds us that perhaps Silicon Valley’s greatest invention has not been any technological invention, but rather its perfection of…
Will We Really Need Humans To Fix The Robots?
The accepted wisdom that the coming automation revolution will require an army of new human jobs to design, install and…
A Reminder Than Social Media Platforms Are Now The Greatest Threat To Democracy
It is not foreign interference that is the greatest threat to our digital democracy, it is the social platforms themselves…
What Is Democracy When Twitter Decides Who Speaks To The President?
One of the most overlooked elements of this brave new world of digital democracy and digital diplomacy is the degree…
Could AI Help Us Write Better Laws?
While most of the focus of AI bias has been on algorithmic and training data modifications to mitigate these biases,…
Is It Time To Give Up On One Set Of Social Media Rules For All?
As social media platforms grapple with the globalization of their creations, they are increasingly coming into conflict with the vast…
What Happens When Social Media Weighs The Monetary 'Value' Of Our Posts?
As social platforms move ever more aggressively towards AI content filtering, it is critical that as a society we come…
Algorithmic Moderation: The Algorithms That Decide What We See Now Delete Us Too
Social platforms are increasingly turning to the same silent algorithmic hand that once merely shaped our experience to cull the…
Musk's Criticism Of Lidar And Simulation Training Belie The Correlative Nature Of Modern AI
Criticism of Lidar and simulation training belie the correlative nature of modern deep learning that lacks the causation models required…