Opinion: Practicing Factfulness based on data.
Watching the Twitter expert class during Covid ruined trust in science. Every day saw dueling experts saying inconsistent, contradictory, illogical and sometimes incoherent things about Covid. Many began name calling/bashing…
Covid-19 has a side effect causing people to post long threads on Twitter about Long Covid. The thread roughly describes my situation – but I have Long Hepatitis, I guess.
Trevor Jacob competed in the 2014 Winter Olympics on snowboard. Since then he appears to have made his living producing high risk “stunt” videos on Youtube, and possibly leading “adventure”…
Watch the video at the link. A Wall Street Journal investigation found that TikTok only needs one important piece of information to figure out what you want: the amount of…
Including this blog: Hundreds of projects launched since 2020 show that Chinese police, state media and the military are gathering data from sites including Twitter and Facebook to track perceived…
Source: Granny, 63, and granddaughter, 6, are kicked out of hotel by POLICE after she gave bad review | Daily Mail Online She checked in to her hotel (Baymont Inn…
Computer generated social media influencers: Sporting neon hair and flawless skin, Bangkok Naughty Boo is one of a new generation of influencers in Asia promising to stay forever young, on-trend,…
Source: Facebook wants to re-focus on younger users – Social Panic Facebook sees TikTok-like platforms as having a better strategy. The basic design of TikTok – with short form videos…
A new research paper written by a team of academics and computer scientists from Spain and Austria has demonstrated that it’s possible to use Facebook’s targeting tools to deliver an…
Some think the government should regulate “The algorithm”: Whistleblower Frances Haugen says the software that decides what we see in our social feeds is hurting us all. But reforming it…