How Artificial Intelligence Can Detect – and Create – Fake News Anjana Susarla, The Conversation News, Politics & Economics, Science & Medicine When Mark Zuckerberg told Congress Facebook would use artificial intelligence to detect fake news posted on the social media site, he wasn’t particularly specific about what that meant. Given my own...
With Teen Mental Health Deteriorating Over Five Years, There’s a Likely Culprit Jean Twenge Arts & Culture Around 2012, something started going wrong in the lives of teens. In just the five years between 2010 and 2015, the number of U.S. teens who felt useless and joyless – classic symptoms of depression –...
When Should You Unfriend Someone on Facebook? Alexis Elder Arts & Culture The nature and ethics of “fake news” has become a subject of widespread concern. But, for many of us, the issue is much more personal: What are we to do when a cranky uncle or an otherwise pleasant old...
Attention Economics and Fake News Vincent F. Hendricks Arts & Culture, Politics & Economics The author presented the following lecture at the recent the annual celebration of The University of Copenhagen. World Economic Forum recently declared misinformation and digital wildfires as some of the...
Of Zombies and Trump: Changing the World with Microtargeting Morgan Saletta Politics & Economics, Society & Culture Zombies helped Trump get elected. Zombies? That's right. "It's Official: the Walking Dead Helped Elect Trump," proclaims The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw. And no, I'm not talking massive undead voter...
Setting the Record Straight on Post-factual Democracy Vincent F. Hendricks and David Budtz Pedersen Politics & Economics BuzzFeed just published a piece demonstrating that post-factual tendencies in politics are alarming on the rise on hyperpartisan Facebook pages. Indeed, everybody is talking about post-truth democracy these...
What Does it Mean to Be a Kid in the Digital Age? Paula Lee and Yalda T. Uhls Arts & Culture, Psychology Is social media ruining our kids? How much internet activity is too much? What do FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), sexting, and selfies mean for teens? To answer these and other questions, Yalda T. Uhls wrote Media...
