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Obama Advisor Ben Rhodes Slammed for Tweet Joking About GOP Leaders’ ‘Obits’…

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Obama adviser Ben Rhodes woke up Thursday to a wave of social media condemnation after a wee-hours tweet joking about the “obits” for top Republican leaders. The tweet was in reference to a photo posted on President Trump’s Instagram account showing him, Vice President Pence, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell […]

Incredible Story: How One Woman’s Digital Life Was Weaponized Against Her…

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The first time the police arrived on her doorstep, in March of 2015, Courtney Allen was elated. She rushed to the door alongside her dogs, a pair of eager Norwegian elkhounds, to greet them. “Is this about our case?” she asked. The police looked at her in confusion. They didn’t know what case she was […]

Facebook Rolls Out AI to Detect Suicidal Posts Before They’re Reported…

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This is software to save lives. Facebook’s new “proactive detection” artificial intelligence technology will scan all posts for patterns of suicidal thoughts, and when necessary send mental health resources to the user at risk or their friends, or contact local first-responders. By using AI to flag worrisome posts to human moderators instead of waiting for […]

How a Half-Educated Tech Elite Delivered Us Into Chaos…

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One of the biggest puzzles about our current predicament with fake news and the weaponisation of social media is why the folks who built this technology are so taken aback by what has happened. Exhibit A is the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, whose political education I recently chronicled. But he’s not alone. In fact […]

World’s Top Tech Giants Amass $1.7 Trillion in Monster Year…

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Between the FAANG quintet and China’s rivaling BAT companies, gains in the world’s top technology shares are nearing a whopping $1.7 trillion in market value this year. That’s more than Canada’s entire economy, and exceeds the worth of Germany’s biggest 30 companies put together. The eight tech giants — Facebook Inc., Amazon Inc., Apple Inc., […]

Forcing Internet Platforms To Police Content Will Never Work

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For many years now, we’ve pointed out that whenever people — generally legacy content companies and politicians — started pushing for internet platforms like Google, Facebook and Twitter to “police” content, that no matter what those platforms did, it was never going to be enough. For example, after years of resisting, Google finally caved to […]

How Facebook’s Master Algorithm Powers the Social Network…

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Instagram engineers faced a Herculean task in early 2016. Fearing that people would miss the most important posts, Instagram’s leadership asked the engineers to transform the chronological photo feed into a curated list of posts based on users’ individual preferences. Development of a similar algorithm for Facebook ’s News Feed, which determines what 2 billion […]

8 Crazy Ways Social Media Could Be Raising Your Insurance Rates…

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We all love social media. The constant “Which F.R.I.E.N.D.S Character Are You Quizzes?”. The spirited debates about whether quinoa is actually worth eating. The quotes by Mother Theresa that are actually by Britney Spears. The videos of elderly people wiping out while riding scooters. It’s all good fun ….until it causes your insurance rates to […]

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