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Pew Report: Speaking Up or Staying Silent on Social Media

CTOvision

Hope has been placed on the Internet (particularly on social media) to expose users to more sources of information and diverse points of view. In the 1970s, an article in the Journal of Communication by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann coined the term “spiral of silence” to describe the observed phenomenon. By Shannon Perry.

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Supreme Court Punts Flimsy Laws Limiting Social Media Content Moderation

Forrester IT

What if the US Supreme Court supported a law in which the government could force the New York Times and Wall Street Journal to publish stories against their will? What if the editors at those news outlets no longer had the power to turn down stories that they found objectionable — ones containing hate speech […]

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Journalist Valentino-Devries Hosts Reddit Q&A on Big Data and Privacy

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Reddit , the user-run social media/news website, regularly hosts “IAmA” sessions (Q&A discussions beginning with “I am a. Last week, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries , a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, hosted such an IAmA. By Shannon Perry. Ask me anything.”)

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How Hackers Talk Their Way Into Getting Company Secrets

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Read Robert McMillan’s article about how hackers use social engineering to steal company secrets on Wall Street Journal: Often it begins with an innocuous-seeming email from an internet domain that closely resembles the victims. The message may appear to come from the company’s chief executive or another senior executive.

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In Controversial Study, Facebook Investigates Networks of Emotions

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Facebook recently conducted a somewhat similar study, Experimental Evidence of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion through Social Networks , to investigate whether changes in social news feeds can influence individuals’ moods and behaviors. Big Data Social Media Facebook National Academy of Science Social network'

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It's Time to Treat Social Media Like the Climate Crisis, Researchers Argue

Gizmodo

In a new paper published in the peer-reviewed journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), a diverse group makes the case that the social media problem rises to the level of urgency that… Read more. Mark Zuckerberg needs to hand over the keys, a team of researchers argues.

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Google Acquires Drone Maker Titan Aerospace

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The financial and social gains from providing Internet access to billions of Africans and Asians will be enormous, and Google’s acquisition puts the company in a good position to be that provider. Big Data CTO DoD and IC Amazon.com Artificial intelligence Earth Facebook Google Internet access New Mexico Wall Street Journal'

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