It will be impossible to defeat all perpetrators of disinformation, or successfully anticipate where all the threats might emerge from. Communities must anticipate that the worst will happen and develop processes to nimbly manage the harm. We should spend more time thinking about how to organize the “first responders” to disinformation and misinformation disasters, rather […]
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Deconstructing the Disinformation War – MediaWell
Perhaps the most important contribution a climate paradigm might make to thinking about the problems of “information disorder” is to change the nature of our responses to these issues. The conflict narrative suggests a future moment of triumph, when the perpetrators of disinformation and the spread of misinformation are finally vanquished—the climate frame strikes the […]
Deconstructing the Disinformation War – MediaWell
The conflict narrative performs a neat intellectual sleight of hand. Disinformation and misinformation are after all not actual “things” that can be defeated or destroyed. As a result, the “war on disinformation” is as ambiguous as the “war on terror” or the “war on drugs.” The specifics are simply left for another day. This is […]
How the “OK” Symbol Became a Popular Trolling Gesture | Anti-Defamation League
The “OK” hand gesture originated as one of these hoaxes in February 2017 when an anonymous 4channer announced “Operation O-KKK,” telling other members that “we must flood Twitter and other social media websites…claiming that the OK hand sign is a symbol of white supremacy.” Source: How the “OK” Symbol Became a Popular Trolling Gesture | […]
The Great Principles of Computing | American Scientist
My colleagues and I have developed the Great Principles of Computing framework to accomplish this goal. These principles fall into seven categories: computation, communication, coordination, recollection, automation, evaluation and design Source: The Great Principles of Computing | American Scientist
The Great Principles of Computing | American Scientist
All this leads us to the modern catchphrase: “Computing is the study of information processes, natural and artificial.” The computer is a tool in these studies but is not the object of study. As Dijkstra once said, “Computing is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.” Source: The Great Principles of Computing | […]
Abstraction
“Complex virtual worlds such as these are made possible by computer scientists’ ability to distance themselves from the mundane and tedious level of bits and processors through tools of abstraction. To abstract is to describe something at a more general level than the level of detail seen from another point of view.”
Formal Program Verification
Sharing learnings about our image cropping algorithm
Over the last several months, our teams have accelerated improvements for how we assess algorithms for potential bias and improve our understanding of whether ML is always the best solution to the problem at hand. Source: Sharing learnings about our image cropping algorithm
Introducing Twitter’s first algorithmic bias bounty challenge
Finding bias in machine learning (ML) models is difficult, and sometimes, companies find out about unintended ethical harms once they’ve already reached the public. Source: Introducing Twitter’s first algorithmic bias bounty challenge
