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ProPublicaJulia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr., and D&S affiliate Surya Mattu explore what Facebook knows about its users. We built a tool that works with the Chrome Web browser that lets you see what Facebook says it knows about you — yo... Read on ProPublicaSeptember 2016 -
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The New York TimesD&S fellow Natasha Singer co-wrote a piece discussing Facebook's new partnership with Summit Public Schools to 'introduce a free student-directed learning system'. The Facebook-Summit partnership, by contrast, is more of a... Read on The New York TimesAugust 2016 -
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The New York TimesD&S Fellow Natasha Singer reports on Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, and Dr. Priscilla Chan, a pediatrician who is his wife, and their recent hire of James H. Shelton III, a former deputy secretary of the ... Read on The New York TimesMay 2016 -
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The AtlanticThe grand finale of D&S artist-in-residence Ingrid Burrington's gonzo series of essays on Internet infrastructures, this piece explores northern Virginia in search of Amazon Web Services data centers — and explores the ge... Read on The AtlanticJanuary 2016 -
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BrightAt what age should children be allowed to access the internet without parental oversight? This is a hairy question that raises all sorts of issues about rights, freedoms, morality, skills, and cognitive capability. Cultural val... Read on BrightDecember 2015 -
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The New York TimesCan’t stop watching that new show on Netflix? Or perhaps the advent and marketing of T-Mobile’s “BingeOn” option has made you reflect on your Friday night rituals. D&S fellow Natasha Singer reports on the phenomenon known a... Read on The New York TimesDecember 2015 -
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The AtlanticD&S artist in residence Ingrid Burrington shares impressions from a tour of Facebook's massive Altoona data center, and wonders about the extent to which Facebook might be creating an infrastructure to rival the internet it... Read on The AtlanticDecember 2015 -
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The Atlantic"It turns out driving directly toward huge, looming storm clouds is a great rhetorical device to employ on a road trip to see cloud infrastructure—and also a great way to be faced with the cruel truth of your own mortality." D... Read on The AtlanticNovember 2015 -
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Vice“Just as the software and hardware of the internet has been militarized by the imperatives of a mostly secret 'cyberwar,' so too are online social spaces being weaponized in new and mostly hidden ways.” D&S researcher Tim Hw... Read on ViceSeptember 2015 -
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The AtlanticData & Society affiliate Kate Crawford comments on a court case in which a law firm is using data from a plaintiff's Fitbit in support of her personal injury claim and explores the implications of elective self-tracking tec... Read on The AtlanticNovember 2014