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Do Algorithms Really Control Society?
For all its vaunted technological might and all its claims that its behavioral engineering algorithms can readily nudge its users…
How Facebook Changed From Utopian To Orwellian
As the curtain is gradually pulled back on the workings of Silicon Valley’s social behemoths we are increasingly seeing that…
Acosta and the Intern: A Media Double Standard?
A look at how media coverage of the interaction between CNN's Jim Acosta and the young female White House intern…
Today's Deep Learning "AI" Is Machine Learning Not Magic
Even the best AI tools are more artistry than science, require reams of carefully curated data from which they inherit…
We Need Software That Doesn't Panic When Sensors Malfunction
Software systems ultimately hinge on their ability to accurately observe the outside world through sensors, but when they fail, algorithms…
Google Developers Experts Summit 2018
Kalev was in Sunnyvale this past weekend at the Google Developers Experts Summit 2018. It is amazing to see just…
WashPost: The Caravan Has All But Vanished From Cable News
The Washington Post's Philip Bump shows how "the caravan" has largely faded from television news coverage. Read The Full Article.
Estonia's Online Voting Would Solve A Lot Of Our Election Problems
Just imagine the American government of the future if the engineers that brought us the modern web spent a little…
The Truth Is That We Really Don't Know If There Was Social Media Election Interference
The gatekeepers that silently and opaquely control everything we see and say online, now control our understanding of just how…
Chicago Tribune Summarizes RealClearPolitics Media Bias Analysis
Page 10 of today's print edition of the Chicago Tribune includes an excerpted summary of the RealClearPolitics analysis of Trump's…
Three Years And 363 Forbes Columns And Counting
In the just over three years since his debut Forbes column on September 15, 2015 announcing "Reimagining Our World Through…
WashPost: Trump's Concern About Loss Of 'Momentum' Seems As If It Mostly Means 'TV Coverage'
The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores how Trump's concerns about "loss of momentum" on key topics seems to translate more…
Rod Arquette Show Radio Interview On Trump's Mail Bomber Coverage Claims
Kalev joined the Rod Arquette show today to discuss his RealClearPolitics analysis of Trump's claims of biased media coverage of…
GDELT Analysis Site Back Up
As we noted last week, the previous vendor we were using to send out the notification emails for the GDELT…
Accuracy In Media: RealClearPolitics Analysis: Media Tried to Tie Trump to Mail Bomb Scare
Accuracy In Media (AIM) examines the RealClearPolitics analysis of Trump's claims of media bias in news coverage of the mail…
Investor's Business Daily Editorial Discusses RealClearPolitics Media Bias Analysis
Investor's Business Daily ran an editorial piece today exploring in more detail the RealClearPolitics analysis of Trump's claims of media…
Techfugees World And How It Turned Mine
Saud Aldarra wrote this fascinating article both about her own journey and how she's using GDELT to catalog global narratives…
RealClearPolitics: Data Show Trump Is Right About Mail Bomber Coverage
It turns out the president was right when he claimed the media covered the mail bombing suspect very differently than…
Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign And The Battle For The Meaning Of America
This book by John Sides, Michael Tesler and Lynn Vavreck uses the TV Explore in several graphs to chart media…
WashPost: Trump Is Mad That The Mail Bombs Are Distracting People From His Campaign Rhetoric
The Washington Post's Philip Bump uses the Television Explorer to examine whether President Trump's claims about the mail bomb campaign…
GDELT Analysis Site Upgrade Coming Next Month
As the GDELT Analysis site has grown from its origins as a small testbed for quick data extracts and experimental…
Social Media Companies Collect So Much Data Even They Can't Remember All The Ways They Surveil Us
When companies collect so much data in so many ways that the companies themselves lose track of all the ways…
Social Media Companies Need To Own Up To The Dark Side Of Their Impact On Society
As governments across the world exploit social platforms to tear societies apart, undermine democracy, spread misinformation, encourage chaos, dehumanize minority…
Even The Data Ethics Initiatives Don't Want To Talk About Data Ethics
In a world in which data ethics has taken on such a role in the public discourse, when even the…