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Data & Society"Data Voids" demonstrates how manipulators expose people to problematic content by exploiting search-engine results. Read moreOctober 2019 -
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Data & SocietyThis report traces decades of AV manipulation to demonstrate how evolving technologies aid consolidations of power in society. Read moreSeptember 2019 -
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Data & SocietySource Hacking details the techniques used by media manipulators to target journalists and other influential public figures to pick up falsehoods and unknowingly amplify them to the public. Read moreSeptember 2019 -
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Data & Society“Digital Identity in the Migration & Refugee Context” analyzes the challenges of continually collecting identity data from migrants & refugees. Read moreApril 2019 -
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Data & Society"AI in Context" shows how automated and AI technologies are reconfiguring work in small family-owned farms and grocery stores. Read moreJanuary 2019 -
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Data & SocietyNew report by Robyn Caplan illustrates the organizational contexts of three types of content moderation strategies by drawing from interviews with 10 major digital platforms. Read moreNovember 2018 -
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Data & SocietyData Craft analyzes how bad actors manipulate metadata to create effective disinformation campaigns and provides tips for researchers and technology companies trying to spot this “data craft.” Read moreNovember 2018 -
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Data & SocietyWeaponizing the Digital Influence Machine: The Political Perils of Online Ad Tech identifies the technologies, conditions, and tactics that enable today’s digital advertising infrastructure to be weaponized by political and anti-democratic actors. Read moreOctober 2018 -
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Data & SocietyIn the new Data & Society report “Governing Artificial Intelligence,” Mark Latonero assesses how human rights can be applied in the governance of AI and offers initial recommendations for stakeholders. Read moreOctober 2018 -
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Data & Society"Alternative Influence" by Rebecca Lewis identifies an alternative media system on YouTube that adopts the techniques of brand influencers to build audiences and “sell” them political ideology. Read moreSeptember 2018