Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) The Dunning-Kruger effect is perhaps both one of the the most famous biases in human behavior—and the most predictable. It posits that people who don’t understand a topic also lack sufficient knowledge to recognize that they don’t understand it. Instead, they know just enough to convince themselves they’re […]
Big Tech CEOs head to Congress … again. But experts say this time could be different. Read More
Big Tech heads to Washington…again. But experts say this time could be different. Read More
Big Tech heads to Washington…again. But experts say this time could be different. Read More
Enlarge (credit: Lewis Ogden / Flickr) We don’t need a study to know that misinformation is rampant on social media; we just need to do a search for “vaccines” or “climate change” to confirm that. A more compelling question is why. It’s clear that, at a minimum, there are contributions from organized disinformation campaigns, rampant […]
Enlarge / Robert Kennedy Jr. heads up to a meeting at Trump Tower on January 10, 2017 in New York City. (credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Instagram has permanently banned the account of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an infamous and prolific peddler of dangerous anti-vaccine and COVID-19 misinformation. The move will likely be cheered by public […]
TikTok is well aware it’s no longer a service used solely by bubbly teens doing dance challenges, lip-synching, or creating comic skits. It’s also a place where people spread harmful misinformation—a problem that has proliferated on its more mature rivals. The service said on Wednesday that it’s taking new steps to crack down on the […]
Expand / Facebook’s Menlo Park, California, headquarters as observed in 2017. Facebook’s applications methods have better at discovering and blocking hate address on either Facebook and Instagram platforms, so the business improved today–but the toughest work still must be accomplished by men and women, and lots of these folks warn the planet’s largest social networking […]
Our assignment to generate business better would be fueled by viewers just like you. Facebook additional warning labels to over 180 million articles that comprised election emission involving March and Nov. 3, also supplying the initial accounting of the enormous issue faced by the business in devoting lies on its own support regarding the democratic […]
Our assignment to generate business better would be fueled by viewers just like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our own journalism, subscribe now . Senators devised the CEOs of both Facebook along with Twitter on Tuesday over the way their solutions managed election misinformation. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee whined that warnings that the […]