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People's Daily Covers Twitter Analysis
The People's Daily explored the highlights and implications of Kalev's 2012-2018 Twitter analysis. Read The Full Article.
WashPost: Fox News May Be Driving Skepticism About The Mueller Investigation
The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores how Fox News has been minimizing the Mueller investigation. Read The Full Article.
MSN: We Didn’t Watch White Supremacists Closely Enough
MSN republished New Zealand's Newsroom article that referenced Kalev in its coverage of how social media companies have failed to…
Newsroom: We Didn’t Watch White Supremacists Closely Enough
New Zealand's Newsroom referenced Kalev in its coverage of how social media companies have failed to invest sufficiently in countering…
We Live In A Post-Gatekeeper World Not A Post-Truth World
In the end, in just three short decades, the web has taken us from governments as gatekeepers to absolute informational…
Misinformation And Fake News Are Genuine Threats Not Marketing Buzzwords
We are increasingly commercializing the study of misinformation into sham science based on false findings derived from bad data wrapped…
Combatting Fake News Requires Provenance And Information Literacy
As we are increasingly separated from the production process of the information we consume, what does this suggest about the…
DeepFakes: The Media Talks Politics While The Public Is Interested In Pornography
The public appears fixated on the application of AI-created imagery to create pornography with little interest in how it may…
MarketWatch: One Year After Zuckerberg's Testimony About Violent Content On Facebook, Has Anything Changed?
MarketWatch spoke with Kalev as part of their examination of how social platforms handled the New Zealand terror attack. Read…
How Deep Fakes Will Change Political Campaigning
As deep fakes and related fields like computer-generated artificial faces mature, political campaigns themselves will leverage these new tools to…
Al Jazeera English Interview On Social Media Livestream Moderation
Kalev was interviewed on Al Jazeera English this afternoon about how social media platforms could be doing much more to…
Google's Record-Setting Pi Calculation Showcases The Rise Of Cloud Scientific Computing
Scientific supercomputers of the future will increasingly be virtual, purpose-built for a single computation and span the globe for resiliency….
Are Our Intelligence Agencies Getting The Wrong Advice?
As even our most austere institutions buy into the hype and hyperbole of the “big data” era, it may simply…
Data Science Is Now Bigger Than 'Big Data'
In a world in which “big data” and “data science” seem to adorn every technology-related news article and social media…
What Will Replace The Fading Hashtag?
The hashtag appears to have emerged on Twitter as a response of the shift from conversation to sharing, but as…
Does Twitter's Decline Mean The End Of The Global Town Square?
Twitter has shrunk almost in half, shed its vaunted geotagged resolution, centralized around an ever-older set of elite accounts and…
Facebook's Deletion Of Warren's Ad Reminds Us It Can Silence Debate About Itself
We must confront the most existential question of the digital age: has Facebook grown so powerful that it is now…
Social Media Isn't Faster Or Better Than The News
In a world in which data is increasingly seen as a bulwark against misinformation, perhaps we should spend a bit…
Global Mass Surveillance And How Facebook's Private Army Is Militarizing Our Data
In our rush to livestream our lives into Facebook’s walled garden, we are signing away the rights to our privacy,…
It Turns Out We've Been Concerned About Facebook's Privacy Since The Beginning
Is our conversation about Facebook and privacy something new, born of the Cambridge Analytica scandal or did the events of…
Deep Learning-Powered 'Fake Faces' Will Transform Catfishing
As deep learning approaches increasingly allow the creation of entirely artificial faces and voices, we are fast approaching an era…
Our Digital Revolution Is Making Our Past Ever More Fragile And Destroying Our Trust In Information
The rise of the digital era has contradictorily both made it easier to preserve the past and easier to falsify…
Do We Even Care What Our Data Says Anymore?
If our data mattered, we would be spending the time to understand it and adjusting our methodologies and research agendas…
The Shift From Open Source To Commercial Data Analytics Is Placing Cost Over Accuracy
As data science matures, we need to carefully balance the convenient opacity of turnkey analytics platforms with the more complex…