In our era of “fake news” and foreign influence, we are likely to see the rise of “falsified newscasts” in…

Web archives preserve the only record of our ephemeral digital evolution. It is imperative that they get that record right…

Data science will fail to achieve its full potential until it lets go of this idea of “cheap and fast”…

As data science matures it must become far more like the hard sciences, especially a willingness to expend the resources…

If we truly hope to understand misinformation, disinformation, “fake news” and foreign influence, we must let go of the idea…

GDPR has been merely public posturing rather than privacy protection, offering the public empty promises that their governments have yet…

As we rush towards an ever more Orwellian world of surveillance and censorship, perhaps we might all take the time…

Algorithmic moderation might at first glance seem like the ultimate solution to all of the online world’s evils, but in…

Facebook’s move to the edge will create a useful public relations story for it but do little to constrain the…

FiveThiryEight's Dhrumil Mehta graphs the state of the 2020 Democratic field. Read The Full Article.

Could Facebook’s move towards shifting its content moderation algorithms from its centralized datacenters out to users’ phones help it transition…

One of the greatest challenges confronting social media companies as they push towards their “privacy first” visions of our digital…

Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of Facebook’s new initiative to move content moderation to the edge, running their algorithms directly…

Could Facebook realize the vision of Batman's The Dark Knight in turning the world's smartphone microphones into a global surveillance…

Could Facebook’s efforts to scan users’ decrypted messages directly on their phones offer a potential solution that would enable governments…

Will the future be Facebook-produced AI algorithms running directly on our phones, monitoring every second of our lives, eliminating encryption,…

As governments become accustomed to turning to Facebook to map their citizens and understand their spatial patterns of life, troubling…

As the Mueller report and its aftermath dominated the headlines once again this week, it can seem at times like…

How might technologists help the library and journalism worlds reimagine how they preserve online news? Read The Full Article

FiveThiryEight's Laura Bronner examines how polls and media coverage responded to the Democratic 2020 campaign announcements. Read The Full Article.

Could the era of crowdsourcing finally be coming to a close through the confluence of an increasingly sensor-drenched world with…

Smartphones’ tiny screens and on-the-go usage promotes the very behaviors that help “fake news,” misinformation, disinformation and foreign influence spread,…

Will the nascent world of deep learning image recognition help codify the vast knowledge of our professional image researchers and…

Dhrumil Mehta examines the week in review of the major Democratic presidential candidates. Read The Full Article.