Tech News update How Google’s resistance to employee organizing endangers our democracy Dec 29, 2019 In October, I wrote an op-ed for Newsweek about big tech’s gradual destruction of our democracy. Specifically, I argued that big tech continues to…
Tech and Gadget See the Translation Tech Lawmakers Say “Threatens Democracy” in Action | Tech Top Nov 16, 2018 Loaded Language On Thursday, a U.K.-based tech firm released a remarkable demo video of its flagship software. “I’d like to demonstrate how…
Tech and Gadget Russia may have been behind a fresh plot to contaminate US democracy | Social Nov 7, 2018 Facebook says the 115 accounts it pulled down this week for meddling in the midterms may have been linked to notorious troll farm, the Internet…
Tech and Gadget In State Tectonics, an explosive ending for the future of democracy | Tech Top Oct 21, 2018 An omnipotent data infrastructure and knowledge-sharing tech organization has spread across the planet. Global conspiracies to disseminate propaganda…
Artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence is transforming social media. Can American democracy survive? AI|… Sep 6, 2018 Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, left, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey arrive to a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol…
Tech and Gadget Theresa May says a 2nd Brexit referendum would be a ‘gross betrayal’ of democracy and trust |… Sep 2, 2018 caption British Prime Minister Theresa May. source Getty British Prime Minister Theresa May has categorically ruled out a second Brexit…
Computing Experts Discuss Blockchain and Democracy and The ‘Freedom of Money’ at BlockShow Americas | Crypto Aug 21, 2018 BlockShow Americas 2018 kicked off this morning in Las Vegas, gathering over 1,500 attendees and 80 speakers from the blockchain industry from more…
Social Media Twitter was supposed to spread democracy, not Trump’s ravings | John Naughton | Social Aug 20, 2018 Here’s the $64,000 question for our time: how did digital technologies go from being instruments for spreading democracy to tools for undermining it?…
Tech News update Fake news inquiry calls for social media levy to defend democracy | AI Aug 12, 2018 A UK parliamentary committee which has been running a multi-month investigation into the impact of online disinformation on political campaigning —…
Artificial intelligence Fake news inquiry calls for social media levy to defend democracy – Info AI Jul 31, 2018 A UK parliamentary committee which has been running a multi-month investigation into the impact of online disinformation on political campaigning…