GDPR Reminds Us The Best Privacy Laws Were Written Before The Social Media Era
The few laws that have actually granted some degree of privacy all predate the social media era, reminding us of…
'Deep Fakes' Are Just An Updated War Of The Worlds For The Digital Era
Reflecting on Orson Welles’ infamous October 30, 1938 radio adaptation of The War of The Worlds reminds us that believable…
We Keep Forgetting That We Didn't Want Democratic Social Media
As rumblings grow for Facebook to turn back into a democracy, we would do well to reflect on the 2009-2012…
As EternalBlue Racks Up Damages It Reminds Us There Is No Such Thing As A Safe Cyber Weapon
The way in which EternalBlue has come back to wreak harm across the United States reminds us that there is…
The Web Brought Us Limitless Information But Not The Tools To Manage It
It is not book-laden shelves or digital publishing platforms that drive or destroy democracy, it is those curators that help…
The Pelosi Video: Should Social Media Ban Falsehoods Or Does Democracy Require Free Speech?
Facebook’s choice to limit the distribution of the video and warn users that it has been doctored presents the best…
WhatsApp's Massive Security Flaw Serves To Remind Us The Limits Of Consumer Encryption Apps
The existence of a now-fixed buffer overflow exploit in Facebook’s marquee encrypted communications application reminds us that despite all of…
GDPR's Massive 'Research' Exemption: Facebook And Social Science One
The European Union’s GDPR was supposed to afford EU citizens unprecedented digital privacy rights. Instead, Social Science One reminds us…
The GDELT Global Frontpage Graph (GFG): 109 Billion URLs And Half A Trillion Datapoints
GDELT's Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) launched in March of last year, crossed the 100 billion URL threshold last month. As it…
Using Deep Learning To Measure The Facial Emotion Of Television
Using Google’s off-the-shelf cloud AI algorithms to “watch” a week of television news from the Internet Archive’s Television News Archive…
Using AI To Tally The Top Onscreen Television Topics Via OCR And NGrams
Using Google’s off-the-shelf cloud AI algorithms to “watch” a week of television news from the Internet Archive’s Television News Archive,…
WashPost: Are Americans As Interested In Impeachment As The Media Is?
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of impeachment against the backdrop of popular interest and congressional discourse. Read…
Impeachment Coverage Has Surged as Public Interest Wanes
The Democratic clamor for presidential impeachment seems to be growing by the day. The topic became front-page news again this…
AI Watching Television News: The Importance Of The Human Face To Television Journalism
Using Google’s off-the-shelf cloud AI algorithms to “watch” a week of television news from the Internet Archive’s Television News Archive,…
AI Watches Television News: A Tweet's Worth Of Onscreen Text Every Second
Using Google’s off-the-shelf cloud AI algorithms to “watch” a week of television news from the Internet Archive’s Television News Archive,…
What Does AI See When It Watches A Week Of Television News?
What might it look like to use Google’s off-the-shelf cloud AI algorithms to “watch” a week of television news from…
AI Watching Television News: Deep Learning Meets A Week Of Television
What would it look like to have a computer watch a week of television news from CNN, MSNBC and Fox…
FiveThirtyEight: Beto O'Rourke Ignored Cable News – And It Ignored Him
FiveThirtyEight's Dhrumil Mehta explores how Beto O'Rourke has fared on television news. Read The Full Article.
The Lessons of Poynter's Retracted 'Unreliable News' Blacklist
Last month, the Poynter Institute, home of PolitiFact, published through its International Fact-Checking Network a list of what it deemed…
Towards Data Science: Polls and Press
A look at media coverage of the 2020 race to date. Read The Full Article.
La Presse: La Reconnaissance Faciale Mise Au Ban à San Francisco
La Presse quotes Kalev in their coverage of the San Francisco city ban on facial recognition, following on his coverage…
Proppy: Organizing The News Based On Their Propagandistic Content
This paper uses GDELT to explore propaganda detection in the news. Propaganda is a mechanism to influence public opinion, which…
Sentiment Mining 500 Years Of History: Is The World Really Darkening?
Is the world really as dark as we believe or has increased access to information made us see a darkening…
Why San Francisco's Facial Recognition Ban Won't Actually Have Any Impact
San Francisco's facial recognition ban will have little impact, with the technology deployed widely throughout the city but will be…