On Biases in Tech: Facebook’s Evolving Safety Check
Safety Check—the crisis response tool that allows users to check in as 'safe' on Facebook—has some of its critics still wanting more.
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Defined by the Filter Bubble
Zuckerberg, Dorsey, and other social media giants will be remembered, not by their business successes, but by how well they tackle the problem of the filter bubble.
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Who Killed the Hyperlink?
There is a story in the Quran about a group of Christians who escaped persecution by taking refuge in a cave. There they fell into a very long sleep which they thought only lasted a day or two. But it actually had lasted for centuries. When they woke they were...
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Cathy O’Neil on Weapons of Math Destruction
Weapons of math destruction are characterized by their opacity, their power, their widespread use, their poor definitions of success, and their engendering of pernicious feedback loops.