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Facebook's Continued Growth Reminds Us: It's Now Too Big To #DeleteFacebook
Facebook has become so integrated into our lives, so intertwined with how we keep in touch, follow the news, get…
Could AI-Powered Traffic Cameras Finally Stop Distracted Driving?
While driverless cars may eventually free us to spend our commutes entirely on our phones, in the meantime, could AI-powered…
Sunday Times: Confucius Institutes Sway News Coverage On China, Says UCD Analysis
The Sunday Times covered an analysis by researchers at the University College Dublin that used GDELT to explore how Confucius…
Could Apple Ban Unethical Facial Recognition And Become The Patron Saint Of Privacy?
Apple’s sharp rebuke of Facebook’s data practices this week has shown us the power of the device companies like Apple…
What Does It Mean To "Consent" To The Use Of Our Data In The Facebook Era?
Facebook's response to nearly every one of its privacy stories over the past year has been to argue that its…
Apple's Facebook Rebuke: Could Apple Save Privacy Where Government Won't?
Looking to the future, could Apple perhaps become our defacto privacy guardian, protecting its users from unethical data harvesting as…
Why Are We For Globalization But Against The AI Revolution?
Why do we speak of AI’s potential to cause mass job displacement as an existential danger that must be addressed…
Visualizing The GKG Outlink Graph: A Range Of Perspectives
The series of visualizations we've created of the GKG Outlink Graph remind us how much of an impact our data filtering…
Visualizing The GKG Outlink Graph: Google News
For this visualization of our GKG 2016-2018 Outlink Dataset, we filter to only news outlets and inlink domains present in Google…
Visualizing The GKG Outlink Graph: Google News + US Only + Top 5 Reciprocal + 10K Strongest With Edge Weights
For this visualization of our GKG 2016-2018 Outlink Dataset, we filter to only US-based news outlets and inlink domains present in…
Visualizing The GKG Outlink Graph: Google News + Top 5 Reciprocal + 10K Strongest With Edge Weights
For this visualization of our GKG 2016-2018 Outlink Dataset, we filter to only news outlets and inlink domains present in Google…
Visualizing The GKG Outlink Graph: US Outlets + Top 10 Reciprocal + 30K Strongest With Edge Weights
For this visualization of our GKG 2016-2018 Outlink Dataset, we filter to only news outlets and inlink domains that were based…
Visualizing The GKG Outlink Graph: Google News + Top 5 By Outlet + 10K Strongest
For this visualization of our GKG 2016-2018 Outlink Dataset, we filter to only news outlets and inlink domains that were present…
Visualizing The GKG Outlink Graph: Google News + Top 5 By Outlet + 50K Strongest
For this visualization of our GKG 2016-2018 Outlink Dataset, we filter to only news outlets and inlink domains that were present…
Visualizing The GKG Outlink Graph: Top 5 By Outlet + 50K Strongest
For this visualization of our GKG 2016-2018 Outlink Dataset, we compute the top 5 inlink domains by news outlet and display…
Visualizing The GKG Outlink Graph: Reciprocal 30K Graph
Following in the footsteps of 10K random graph visualization of the GKG 2016-2018 Outlink Dataset, we've created another version that…
Visualizing The GKG Outlink Graph: Random 10K Graph
Since our new 2016-2018 GKG outlink dataset is a graph, we thought we'd visualize it using Gephi. There are many…
A Summarized Lookup Version Of Our GKG Outlink Domain Graph
Yesterday we released a massive new dataset comprising the 1.78 billion URL outlink graph over GDELT's Global Knowledge Graph 2016-2018….
Who Links To Whom? The 30M Edge GKG Outlink Domain Graph April 2016 To Jan 2019
In April 2016 we began recording the list of all hyperlinks included in the body text of each article in…
Trump Finally Brings the Media Together: All Agree He Caved
In a rare moment of unity in today’s polarized politics, media outlets set aside their usual differences on Saturday and…
416 Forbes Columns And Counting
In the just over three years and four months since his debut Forbes column on September 15, 2015 announcing "Reimagining…
What If We Treated AI Bias Testing Like Clinical Drug Trials?
Centralizing and systematizing our approach to evaluating AI bias would force companies to disclose their target demographics and offer the…
Does 'Name And Shame' Really Work For Fighting AI Bias Or Is It All Economics?
Name and shame campaigns work where companies see economic value in gaining valuable new customer bases or where fixes are…
If The Government Doesn't Care About Accessibility Why Should It Care About AI Bias?
The quarter century of indifference towards accessibility issues on the web should give pause to those who hope AI bias…