The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Social sites more often give users the ability to add alt text or captions to their content, and more people are learning to use them. Indie studios and developers are also upping the ante, with games like Severed Steel and HyperDot being influenced by research about and feedback from disabled players. But there’s still work to do.

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Vox

JULY 3, 2023

In contrast, AI covers a vast field ranging from social media algorithms to national security to advanced medical diagnostics. Many people have called for large-scale governmental research projects targeting potential existential risks resulting from an alignment problem. And AI is no exception.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

These moves, part of a broader push by the company, are significant because with nearly 3 billion users, Facebook is one of the most influential social media networks in the world. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. All Open Sourced content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Hackers in the 60s were mostly computer science students and researchers who wanted to explore the limits of computer technology. 1970s & 1980s: First Laws and Guidelines Created Around Computer Security During the early 1970s, hacking was still mostly a form of exploration and experimentation.

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Vox

MARCH 26, 2021

At Thursday’s hearing on misinformation and social media, several members of Congress took aim at the company’s engagement algorithms, saying they spread misinformation in order to maximize profits. At least one member of Congress is suggesting that social media companies might need a special regulatory agency.

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Hacker Earth

MARCH 6, 2019

From hackathons to automated evaluation tools, semantic analysis to personality tests, social hiring to web scraping, recruiting is being reinvented and how. Research shows that context-dependent skills and passion for the job will continue to drive hiring more than ever. Read about FB ad types, costs/pricing, and guidelines here.

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Hacker Earth

MARCH 6, 2019

From hackathons to automated evaluation tools, semantic analysis to personality tests, social hiring to web scraping, recruiting is being reinvented and how. Research shows that context-dependent skills and passion for the job will continue to drive hiring more than ever. Read about FB ad types, costs/pricing, and guidelines here.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 7, 2020

SSI has similar needs and meeting them won't happen just because we define nice protocols and write some open source code. Social systems that are enduring, scalable, and generative require coherence among participants. Developer communities, like any other social system need coherence.

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Vox

JANUARY 7, 2021

The largely unmoderated and right-wing social network was also involved in the planning of the insurrection , leading some to worry that Parler is a new hotbed of misinformation and extremist activity. If Parler is looking to become a real competitor to the social media giants it criticizes, the company still has a very long way to go.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It’s social media — minus the curation algorithms and content moderation. Open the app, there are profiles pushing doubt about the 2020 election’s results and declarations that the mainstream tech platforms are targeting free speech. Parler, which has been around since 2018, looks at first glance a lot like Twitter and Facebook.

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Vox

DECEMBER 14, 2020

But over the coming weeks and months, she’ll be far from the only person showing up in social media feeds getting inoculated. At the dawn of the pandemic, celebrities and influencers flooded our feeds with content urging us to take preventive measures, like hand-washing, social distancing, and mask-wearing.

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