Recent discussion in the public sphere about algorithmic classification has involved tension between competing notions of what it means for a probabilistic classification to be fair to different…

Word embeddings are widely used in NLP for a vast range of tasks. It was shown that word embeddings derived from text corpora reflect gender biases in society. This phenomenon is pervasive and…

Facebook's disclosure of new information about the Christchurch video prompts four initial thoughts, by Georgetown's Joshua Geltzer.

The 100th anniversary of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity reminds us that creativity is based on imagination — and that we should let kids daydream.

Research on copycats suggests that the often sensationalistic media attention given to perpetrators is central to why massacres are happening more.

Struggling to cover terror in the media age.

Turkey’s military dictatorship made uncensored information hard to find. Then came the Internet.

The Massachusetts senator, who is running for president, is set to announce a regulatory plan aimed at breaking up large tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

‘Suppose all the information stored on computers everywhere were linked. Suppose I could program my computer to create a space in which everything could be linked to everything.’ Sir Tim Berners-Lee,…

Privacy International (PI) has written Facebook to express our concern and request urgent answers regarding its policy on the sharing of mobile phone numbers of its users. Alarmingly, recent reports…

Facebook is happy to protect user data when doing so decreases the company’s civic responsibilities — but not when it threatens advertising revenue.

We're working to tackle vaccine misinformation by reducing its distribution and providing people with authoritative information on the topic.

Switching music providers made inmates’ old music useless

Googling yourself has become a rite of passage.

While the totality of the National Academy of Sciences report on voting technology is sobering, a country with the resources and technical expertise of the United States can make great progress, and quickly, if it has sufficient political will and ...

The top 10 biggest Instagram accounts generate 5x more engagement than Facebook's.

Download a PDF of "Securing the Vote" by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for free.

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It used to make sense to believe something until it was debunked; now, it makes sense to assume certain claims are fake—unless they are verified.

This is the second year in a row the trillion dollar company won't pay