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Human Nature Spreads Fake News Faster Than the Truth
Published on March 12, 2018Who’s to blame for the spread of fake news? Common suspected culprits are Russian bots…
Read MoreIs Tech Trying to Take Over Local News?
Published on February 7, 2018At its core, social media functions as a modern avenue for information exchange. This is…
Read MoreFacebook Will Likely Have to Testify About Those Russian Ads
Published on September 19, 2017Any banking app developer online during last year’s contentious U.S. presidential election knows that the…
Read MoreTech Companies Stamp Out Neo-Nazis After Charlottesville
Published on August 17, 2017The events this weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, shocked the nation, and Trump’s equivocating response threw…
Read MoreAirbnb Kicks Alt-Right Extremists to the Curb Before Protest
Published on August 11, 2017One of the recurring themes in the tech world during the Trump era so far…
Read MoreZuckerberg Listens to America (But Isn’t Running for Office)
Published on July 13, 2017Before he was elected president, Donald Trump was just a businessman (by many accounts, a…
Read MoreLeak Reveals Facebook’s Content Moderation Policies
Published on May 23, 2017Tasked with monitoring content generated from 2 billion users from a wide range of cultural…
Read MoreFrench Election Hacks Underline the Need for Cybersecurity
Published on May 8, 2017When Dogtown Media was in Washington, D.C. a couple weeks ago for AppCon 2017, cybersecurity…
Read MoreGoogle Spotlights Fact-Checkers to Manage Misinformation
Published on April 11, 2017Last week, Facebook announced its News Integrity Initiative, another gesture toward fixing the internet’s misinformation…
Read MoreFacebook Looks for New Approaches to the Fake News Problem
Published on April 4, 2017Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2016 was “surreal.” The Oxford English Dictionary went with…
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