Venture Beast

OCTOBER 30, 2020

I think that games and politics can elevate each other as they get into an inspiration cycle, where games can inspire political change. Read More.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Those probes led to at least 12 additional charges against the cryptopreneur for wire, bank, and commodity fraud, additional money laundering charges, illegal political contributions, and "operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.". Read Entire Article

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Information Week

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Successful IT Leaders collect and spend political capital through three main sources: their position, borrowing it from others and their personal power base.

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 19, 2020

Ahead of the 2020 election, Pew Research found that a majority of American adults believe social media platforms censor political speech. Read More.

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 31, 2024

Sixty-five countries across the globe will hold elections to select their leaders at a time when geo-political interests, regional conflicts, and tribal behaviors stoke division. political ad spend […] Advertising heavily influences public sentiment during election season. GroupM estimates U.S.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 24, 2023

Even so, the “carbon aware” update on Xbox began to draw fire from the political sector on Jan. 24 from “Fox & Friends,” which accused Microsoft of “trying to recruit your kids into climate politics at an earlier age,” and a tweet from Sen. Further commentary came on Jan.24

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 25, 2023

B2C marketing CMOs will need to navigate AI and prioritize the practical amid a tense political atmosphere. Get an overview of our B2C marketing predictions for 2024.

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GeekWire

JUNE 17, 2021

Without conceding it broke state law, Google paid the Washington attorney general’s office $423,659 to settle a lawsuit over the company’s paid political advertising in the state. . The settlement marks the second time Google has paid the state after being accused of stepping outside the law’s boundaries.

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IT Toolbox

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Anytime politics are involved with deploying new technology, it becomes more about popularity than about the needs and requirements of the individuals involved.

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Venture Beast

JANUARY 11, 2021

A controversial study from Stanford-affiliated researchers claims to find links between facial features and political affiliation. Read More.

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Venture Beast

JANUARY 4, 2021

In a paper, Uber and Carnegie Mellon researchers propose a language model that can vary the positivity and politeness of its responses. Read More.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Facebook plans to test how people respond to seeing fewer posts about politics in the News Feed. Starting this week, Facebook will “temporarily reduce” political posts for a “small percentage” of people in Canada, Brazil, and Indonesia, with a test in the US following some weeks later. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 22, 2021

It’s a good day to be a mainstream politically conservative party or a right-leaning news outlet on Twitter. The company has released the results of a study analyzing algorithmic amplification of political content on the platform, which affirms what had already been suspected by some: The political right does really… Read more.

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Information Week

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In the early days, IT was called “data processing” and was under finance. IT has evolved, but in too many cases IT is still viewed as a back-office cost center.

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TechSpot

MAY 20, 2022

The Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at The University of Toronto, analyzed Microsoft Bing's autosuggestion system and found that the names of Chinese party leaders, dissidents, and other persons considered politically sensitive in China were censored from appearing in the search engine's autosuggestions—i.e.,

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 16, 2021

Road 96 debuts today as a test of your own border politics. It also tests how well a narrative story works within a procedural game. Read More.

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Computer Weekly

JULY 11, 2017

UK businesses are investing in IT to help them deal with changes that could be around the corner amid geo-political uncertainty

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IT Toolbox

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

According to researchers, Russian state-backed hackers are exploiting a flaw in Roundcube email servers to collect military and political intelligence from organizations, especially the information associated with the Ukraine conflict. Learn more about the attack.

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The Verge

APRIL 22, 2021

At the end of March, Facebook began introducing filters to allow users to customize their feed , and now, the company is hoping to learn more about what users like and dislike, with what seems like a special focus on moving away from political content and toward “inspirational posts.”. Image: Facebook.

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A new Danish political party called The Synthetic Party, with an artificially intelligent representative and AI-based policies, is campaigning for a parliamentary seat and intends to participate in the country’s general election in November.

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The Verge

JANUARY 15, 2021

Dating app Bumble has temporarily disabled a feature which allowed users to filter potential matches based on their political leanings, the service has announced. As of January 14th, users were reporting that the politics filter had disappeared as an option from the app. We've temporarily removed our politics filter to prevent misuse.

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Vox

MARCH 27, 2021

But a liberal lawmaker has temporarily derailed the initiative to raise questions about the involvement of a volunteer group that she worries is pushing a political agenda. She is concerned, for instance, that the group could seek to use the volunteers it recruits for future political campaigns in support of anti-union candidates.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Facebook’s trying to muzzle a group of academic researchers working to shine a light on the company’s notoriously opaque political-ad targeting practices. It’s threatened the team with “enforcement action” if they don’t pull the plug on the project and wipe all data gathered so far, according to a Wall Street Journal… Read more.

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The Verge

AUGUST 11, 2020

On Tuesday, Facebook announced that it would start banning US news publishers with connections to political groups from using its news exemption within the platform’s political ads authorization system. There are a growing number of news publications that are connected with different types of political entities”. “As

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 3, 2019

Andrew Yang is a long shot to make the next round of debates but deserves credit for bringing the conversation about automation and the future of work to the debate stage. To be fair, the impact of automation on work is a difficult conversation. Conservatives speak to the unemployed at factory gates, coal mines, […].

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Facebook reportedly fielded complaints from political parties saying a major News Feed change pushed them toward negative, polarizing posts. A report flagged concerns by unnamed political parties in the European Union, including one in Poland. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 12, 2021

Territory design and the subsequent application and management of those plans is fraught with opportunities for distortion by human intervention. In her latest blog post, Anne Slough discusses the critical role that sales operations plays to maintain equity in the territory design process.

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Computer Weekly

JANUARY 12, 2017

Some organisations are likely to adopt a wait-and-see approach to IT investments in 2017, but others will use political uncertainty as a driver for business change

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Gizmodo

JUNE 24, 2020

An unusually powerful volcanic eruption in 43 BCE has been linked to political upheaval on the other side of the globe, including the fall of the Roman Republic and the Ptolemaic Kingdom. Read more.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Facebook will stop taking new political advertising in the United States in the seven days leading up to the election, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today as part of a series of steps the company is taking to protect against election interference. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. We’ve voted during global pandemics before. We can do this.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2021

Nearly a month after distancing itself from political statements, the publisher of the controversial military shooter Six Days in Fallujah has backtracked and now says the events in the game are “inseparable from politics.” We understand the events recreated in Six Days in Fallujah are inseparable from politics. Image: Victura.

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IT Toolbox

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Senators from New York and Minnesota have expressed concerns over the impact of AI-generated political ads on the upcoming elections in 2024. The post X and Meta Pulled Up Over Need for Deepfake Regulation appeared first on Spiceworks.

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The Verge

AUGUST 31, 2021

Facebook is expanding an experiment in reducing political content in the News Feed. Based on that feedback, we’re gradually expanding some tests to put less emphasis on signals such as how likely someone is to comment on or share political content.”. Illustration by Alex Castro / Th.

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IT Toolbox

APRIL 28, 2017

We have witnessed a number of political decisions being made around the world these last twelve months and all of them will influence IT communities in those countries. This article provides an overview of these decisions and the expected effects.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Snapchat is launching a new tool aimed at guiding its young user base to consider running for political office. The company says it wants to help potential future candidates deal with common barriers to launching political campaigns by providing information, resources, and encouragement.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 5, 2021

After temporarily pausing its nationwide ban on political advertisements to allow campaign messages about the Georgia senate runoffs, Facebook abruptly reversed course on Tuesday, announcing in a blog post that the ban would resume following the election’s conclusion on Wednesday. Read more.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2021

political reform, and to permanently stop giving money to legislators who sought to overturn the presidential election, after the leak of a partial transcript of internal comments in which Microsoft President Brad Smith spoke candidly about the company’s use of campaign contributions to build beneficial relationships with politicians.

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