Vox

JANUARY 12, 2021

Its newfound popularity is due to a convergence of reasons, including WhatsApp’s changing policies, violence at the Capitol that led many tech companies to deplatform Trump, and a viral tweet from the world’s wealthiest man. Signal’s software is open sourced, so others can download or copy it.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

“We’re not surprised scammers are taking advantage of this opportunity because each of the states are rolling out the vaccine a little bit differently,” Sandra Guile of the Better Business Bureau, a nonprofit that focuses on consumer and marketplace trust, told Recode. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Vox

MARCH 9, 2021

After years of allowing anti-vaccine groups and pages to rack up followers on its social network, Facebook announced last month that it wants to lead the world’s largest Covid-19 inoculation information campaign and encourage its users to get vaccinated. Facebook has acknowledged the murky lines the company’s vaccine policies can raise. “[I]f

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Vox

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Ultimately, the platform is facing the same challenges of polarization and misinformation as other social networks like Facebook and Twitter. The company has long aspired to be a social network where civility and neighborliness prevail; there’s even a guide to being respectful to your neighbors in the Nextdoor help center.

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Vox

JANUARY 20, 2021

While Facebook has now banned even referencing “stop the steal,” groups related to the movement that have thousands of members are still active, and have simply changed their names to avoid takedowns, according to preliminary research from the nonprofit Avaaz, which researches mis- and disinformation.

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Vox

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Over the coming weeks and months, the nonprofit is laying the groundwork for a $50 million campaign to encourage Covid-19 vaccination, which the organization thinks could be one of the largest public education efforts ever run in the US. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. Kennedy Jr.,

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Vox

JUNE 10, 2020

Big companies] heavily influence the public discussion on it, and they heavily influence the policy discussions on it,” Raji said of facial recognition technology. “If Still, Mutale Nkonde, a research fellow at Harvard and Stanford who leads the nonprofit AI for the People, told the AP that “the symbolic nature of this is important.”.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Tracking all those contracts “is an entire project that, in a just world, a team of people would be summarizing in real time,” says Jack Poulson, founder of the nonprofit watchdog Tech Inquiry. We fought networked wars for some time, but always in the narrowband sense,” he told me.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

We believe all companies should disclose their algorithms, moderation policies, and data flows to regulators,” then-TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer said at the time. “We Do social networks pull us into self-reinforcing echo chambers, or don’t they? We will not wait for regulation to come.”. Regulation came a few hours later. Governing. ?

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. Her work focuses on the intersection of technology, economic policy, and regulatory policy.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Wikipedia is hosted by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which covers its associated costs, including servers, software, and legal fees. So that includes the security team, trust and safety, legal policy, communications, our partnerships group that works with the other platforms that engage with Wikimedia content.”.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

More and more criminals are identified through open source intelligence (OSINT). Find out what Daniel looks for and how he does digital forensics using social media and other open source resources. And they did, relatively quickly, using something known as Open Source Intelligence, or OSINT. You find clues.

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