Bad Data. Bad!
Many angry over false viewership numbers from Facebook video ads; NYC Mayors Office sent 400,000 mailers to ‘inactive voters’, many of whom were active; and more
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Bad Data. Bad!
Many angry over false viewership numbers from Facebook video ads; NYC Mayors Office sent 400,000 mailers to ‘inactive voters’, many of whom were active; and more
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UnCivil Times
Blockchain company Civil falls short in coin offering goal for Civil Media; #MeToo now has one year of digital data available; and more
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Big Hacks
Tiny chips from China found in devices used by nearly 30 U.S. companies; a record 800,000 people registered to vote on National Voter Registration Day; and more.
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Learning from the Civic Tech Graveyard
Ever wonder what happened to civic tech startups like Vote.com, Voter.com, Hotsoup.com, Speakout.com, Ruck.us, Jumo, ChangeByUs, VoteIQ, or Votizen? Or maybe you’re thinking of starting something new in civic tech and want to learn from past efforts that didn’t succeed? As part of the work on the Civic Tech Field Guide, we’ve...
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How to Resist the ResistBot
Imagine that you are a person who wants to do something useful about climate change, particularly by getting your Members of Congress to pay attention to the issue. Along come some techies, and they give you ClimateBot, a tool that makes it “insanely easy” to convert your text messages into...
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vTaiwan: Public Participation Methods on the Cyberpunk Frontier of Democracy
In the midst of the signal failure known as the US electoral season, here’s something to be inspired about: a true story about rational deliberation on a national scale.