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Facebook's 1984-Themed Effort To Decide What News Is 'Trustworthy' Goes Live
Facebook quietly announced this week that its secret news outlet ranking is now live and being actively used to “boost”…
RealClearPolitics: Seeding a Fact-Checking Conversation: Claims & Ratings
Kalev's latest RealClearPolitics piece explores the Washington Post's take on fact checking claims and ratings. Read The Full Article.
Axios: How The Health Care Debate Faded
Axios charts how television news coverage of the health care debate faded over 2017 and early 2018. Read The Full…
Axios: Stormy Daniels wins TV war: overshadows taxes, health care
Axios' Caitlin Owens uses the Television Explorer to chart how much attention Stormy Daniels got compared with health care reform…
New York Times: No One’s Talking About the New Tax Law
The New York Times' Jim Tankersley and Karl Russel used the Television Explorer to chart news coverage of "tax" versus…
Is Facebook's New Academic Initiative Even More Frightening Than Its Own Research?
It was bad enough being Facebook’s lab rats, but now all two billion of us will be lab rats for…
Vox: Why Fox News Limited Coverage Of The Raid Of Trump's Lawyer's Office
Vox's Alvin Chang explores how the networks covered the Cohen raid. Read The Full Article.
Would Ad-Free Facebook Really Mean Surveillance-Free Facebook?
Would an "ad-free" Facebook really mean "surveillance free," does it really matter when the data brokers will continue buying and…
WashPost: Guess Which Cable News Network Covered The Cohen Raid The Least
The Washington Post's Philip Bump reports on how the major networks covered the Cohen raid. Read The Full Article.
US House Of Representatives Energy And Commerce Committee Facebook Hearing Memo Cites Article
The U.S. House Of Representatives Committee On Energy And Commerce's April 9, 2018 memo titled "Hearing on “Facebook: Transparency and…
RealClearPolitics: Introducing RealClearPolitics' Fact Check Review
Kalev's piece introducing the new RealClearPolitics Fact Check Review and surveying some of its first findings. Read The Full Article.
RealClearPolitics Fact Check Review Launches
The new RealClearPolitics Fact Check Review officially launched this morning. See The Fact Check Review. Learn About It.
MediaBuzz's Howard Kurtz and Mollie Hemingway Discuss RCP's New 'Fact Check Review'
Howard Kurtz previewed the new Real Clear Politics Fact Check Review on his show today. See The Video.
OECD: Latin American Economic Outlook 2018
The OECD's Latin American Economic Outlook 2018 report includes a chart of global trade support created by BBVA using GDELT. Learn…
Estonia's Bright Vision For A Digital-First Future
Estonia's model of innovation, proactive legislation facilitating public discourse and absolute enshrinement of personal control, consent and transparency over data…
It's Time For Facebook To Stop Talking And Start Listening
Perhaps in a world where social media platforms actually listened to the voices they were designed to empower, they could…
Zuckerberg Silently Deletes His Past Into The Orwellian Memory Hole
Zuckerberg is secretly airbrushing away his past, silently reaching into other peoples' private Messenger inboxes to selectively delete any imperfect…
Interview About Facebook On South Korea's "This Morning" on eFM 101.3
Kalev was interviewed this morning on South Korea's tbs eFM This Morning about the Facebook story. Listen to The Show….
Facebook's Medical Research Project Shows It Just Doesn't Understand Consent
To Facebook we are all just data points to be secretly exploited, rather than human individuals whose informed consent must…
The Data Brokers So Powerful Even Facebook Bought Their Data – But They Got Me Wildly Wrong
If we are to have a societal reckoning about privacy, we need to stop talking just about Facebook and start…
Why Are We Just Finding Out Now That All Two Billion Facebook Users May Have Been Harvested?
The real story is not Facebook's revelation of two billion harvested profiles – it's why it took until now to…
The Algorithms Take Over: Will Facebook's Private Message Scanning Lead To Autonomous Censorship?
With Zuckerberg’s acknowledgement this past Monday that Facebook secretly scans all of our private messages, a key unanswered question is…
The Cloud Is Rising To The Cybersecurity Challenge
In a world of seemingly hourly data breaches, can the transition to the cloud help businesses reimagine how they manage…
How Google Earth And Google Maps Taught Us To See The World From Above
Looking back at how one university reacted 15 years ago to the rise of high resolution aerial imagery and a…