Facebook’s rush to make our data available to academics around the world to mine reminds us that all its talk…

What might happen if social media enforced a minimum length on posts rather than a maximum and required us to…

Are social algorithms ensuring we are deluged with hate and our deepest and darkest fears in order to maintain us…

FiveThirtyEight's Dhrumil Mehta offers his weekly update on the 2020 Democratic race. Read The Full Article.

Could Facebook’s pivot to fostering community through Groups actually help it reinvent its advertising business for this new regulatory climate?…

A closer look at both media coverage and search interest shows the phrase "fake news" has steadily faded from interest…

After a quarter century of ceaseless efforts to minimize and even eradicate the very concept of togetherness, the web is…

Would it be feasible to force the electric ride sharing scooters that are increasingly deluging our cities to integrate technological…

Rather than governments demanding encryption backdoors, it will likely be technology companies themselves building in those bypasses to ensure the…

A White House citing executive privilege in refusing to hand over subpoenaed documents to Congress. An attorney general held in…

Facebook reminds us how little we actually know about the success or failure of Silicon Valley’s counter-terrorism efforts. Read The…

As Facebook provides additional details of its Disaster Maps’ inner workings, it reminds us how it sees our personal data…

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…