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In @Vice's "Surveillance Pandemic," @Snowden, @NaomiAKlein , Jacinta González and @bigblackjacobin discuss the use of surveillance technology to neutralize the #BlackLivesMatter uprising. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLTX

Media scholars say that the way the US press covered protests changed in the summer of 1968, when Chicago cops turned the same violence on reporters that had previously been

The iron law of computing is GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out. Machine learning does not repealit. do statistical analysis of skewed data, get skewed conclusions. This is totally obvious to

EARN IT is a bill that takes away online service providers' "safe harbor" (a rule that says that the company that provides your messenger app isn't liable if you use

Writing in @techreview, @samuelwoolley and Jacob Gursky take a deep dive into the data-gathering in the apps from the Trump and Biden campaigns. It's quite a study in contrasts!https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/21/1004228/trumps-

There was a period at the start of the uprising where I changed my screen name to #BlackLivesMatter and Twitter's algorithm glitched and made me the #3 result for

The politicization of online fandoms is always weird. Most fandoms (usually) have no intrinsic political valence, and indeed, a common strong affinity for an apolitical genre can make strange allies,

Thanks for another thought-provoking, fascinating episode, @onthemedia! @Bobosphere, I listened especially carefully to the segment on Twitter, free speech, censorship, etc (it's always a treat when @karaswisher is on).https://www.wnycs

The Australian government used an automated system to detect "welfare overpayments" from the Centrelink Agency. The system tormented Australia's poorest, most vulnerable people for years by insisting that they had

US police brutality stories raise a lot of important structural questions about how policing works here. How can a law-enforcement system repeatedly produce so many spectacularly lethal outcomes? What kind

Private equity was always a catastrophically destructive grift. Just ask employees of the Olive Garden, Toys R Us or Sears. And PE's expansion into health care was terrible even before

Big Tech companies have a lot to answer for, so it's only natural that they get a lot of the blame for problems in our world, including the way that