Digital Ethics

Breaking up social-media companies is one way to fix them. Shutting their users up is a better one.

Mark Zuckerberg wants to be the hero of the metaverse because he knows Facebook is boring.

Twitter's META team is made up of some of tech's most notorious critics, and two more will soon be joining them: Sarah Roberts and Kristian Lum.

good news pals! we're doing a live comb-thru of the hundreds (and hundreds) of facebook docs that were leaked to the press, and giving you guys open access to those docs when we can: https://t.co/PMiUhbn7zw— shoshana wodinsky (she/her) (@swodinsky) October 26, 2021

I heard that the Finnish Parliament had had a hearing where they had interviewed "an AI". Turned out it was a GPT-3 powered system called Project December by @jasonrohrer. Jason kindly allowed me to give the system a go, so I did. Here's what happened... #stochasticparrots pic.twitter.com/vJqc3Mjst5— Teemu Roos (@teemu_roos) April 10, 2021

Revelation comes as whistleblower Frances Haugen prepares to give evidence in parliament

Needed to define #codesign for a new youth culture project. This definition really exists to enable me to validate the feeling of uncertainty that people...

Home feed promotes rightwing tweets over those from the left, internal research finds

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Amazon delivery drivers say surveillance cameras installed in their vans have made them lose income for reasons beyond their control.

Facebook’s political problems stem directly from its size and drive for growth; they are societal issues, not antitrust ones.

This Person (Probably) Exists. Identity Membership Attacks Against GAN Generated Faces.

Options that manipulate consumers into spending more can also hurt you in the long run.

Opinion: Humans train the machine-learning and AI systems at Facebook, Google, and Twitter to filter out bias. The problem: they don't know what they're looking for.

Facebook outlines ambitions for augmented reality glasses

The social network, which has been under increased scrutiny after a former product manager turned into a whistle-blower, is trying to prevent leaks.

Apple has taken a public stand on privacy, curtailing data abuses by apps and declaring it doesn’t exploit its users’ information. But it has also created comprehensive new ways to track us

Whistleblower Frances Haugen says the software that decides what we see in our social feeds is hurting us all. But reforming it won’t be easy.

What happens to the stuff you order online after you send it back?

Here are two proposals for regulating the platform.

A new set of principles offers a vision that makes digital inclusion a natural outcome of an innovative and competitive financial system.

While the hearing touched on a wide swath of Facebook's problems, it focused on the platform's impact on children.

Facebook’s whistleblower, who leaked tens of thousands of documents about the company’s algorithms, could succeed where others failed.

Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way.

Russian authorities on Thursday warned social media giant Facebook it faces a fine of up to 10% of its annual turnover in the country unless it deletes content Moscow deems illegal.

After a day of criticism over his company’s role in spreading fake news about political candidates, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejected the idea that the News Feed had tilted the election in...

An Alabama medical center was in the midst of a hack when Teiranni Kidd arrived to have her baby. A lawsuit says the computer outages from the attack led staff to miss troubling signs, resulting in the baby’s death, allegations the hospital denies.

A new case study, co-authored by the World Economic Forum, delves into the lessons learned at IBM in the company's quest to develop ethical AI technology.