What Facebook's Security Double Standard Tells Us About How It Views User Privacy
In the aftermath of accusations a Facebook security employee was misusing his access to stalk women, it turns out the…
Google's New AI Assistant Shows Machines Can Now Ask For Information On Their Own
Google’s new Duplex AI assistant opens up an entirely new world of conversational systems that can interact autonomously with humans…
How Do We Know AI Is Making Social Media Safer Instead Of Helping Terrorists?
Social media platforms like Facebook are increasingly betting their futures on AI-powered moderation, but could those tools actually be making…
How Fox News Has Been Ignoring The Stormy Daniels Story, In 3 Charts
Vox's Alvin Chang explores how the networks have been covering the Stormy Daniels story. Read The Full Article.
Will The EU's Data Protection Act Actually Lead To Less Online Privacy?
GDPR's rollout is not only rolling back the prior protections its citizens enjoyed, but is firmly entrenching, under legal protection,…
Why Can't Facebook's Facial Recognition Stop Impersonation Accounts?
Last year Facebook tried reframing facial recognition from a privacy debate into a major security tool that would stop fraudulent…
RealClearPolitics: Fact-Checking: A Business or a Public Service?
Kalev's latest RealClearPolitics piece is an interview with PolitiFact Editor Angie Holan to explore her take on the fact checking…
Why Are Academics Upset With Facebook's New Privacy Rules?
Even as Cambridge University's ethics panel rejected Kogan’s Facebook research for lacking informed consent, the academic community condemns Facebook’s new…
What The Alleged Facebook Stalker Teaches Us About Our Online Privacy
The story of a Facebook security engineer fired for allegedly stalking women online and potentially exploiting his privileged access to…
Companies Need To Start Reporting What AI Gets Wrong, Not Just What It Does Right
As AI becomes the go-to tool of the online world, companies are reporting only their successes, while the public and…
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…