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• Project Veritas 'exposes' CNN's bias against Trump

  I don't know how to tell you this, but at least some of the people who work at CNN have a personal bias against President Donald Trump. According to performance art group Project Veritas, CNN employee Cary Poarch came forward earlier this year with hundreds of hours of video ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Pinterest says AI reduced self-harm content on its platform by 88%

  Pinterest announced that for the past year, it’s been using machine learning to identify and hide content that displays ...

  • Cara Curtis

• How researchers are making memes more accessible for visually impaired people

  Memes are changing the way we communicate. For the 1.3 billion people living with some form of visual impairment, some of ...

  • Cara Curtis

• NBA stands to lose billions as China lashes out over tweet supporting Hong Kong

  The NBA boasts some 600 million fans in China and rakes in billions of dollars from lucrative TV and merchandising contracts ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Instagram spins out Threads, its version of Messenger

  Instagram is launching Threads, the dedicated chat app specifically for sending photos and videos with your close friends. ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Zuck says he’s ready for a fight if Elizabeth Warren is elected

  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is getting his employees ready for what could turn out to be the biggest threat his company's ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Report: TikTok censored posts about Trump, Christianity, and LGBTQ relationships

  TikTok's 500 million users aren't there to fight about politics, troll their enemies, or shitpost for lolz. They're mostly a community of inclusive, fun-loving content creators who support one another. You can thank the Chinese government's commitment to exporting censorship for that. A ...

  • Tristan Greene

• What reading r/The_Donald every day for a month taught me

  I tried to get 'red pilled' by r/The_Donald and I didn't even get a T-shirt. What I did get though, was a deep enough understanding of the bigots, racists, ableists, homophobes, and other 'forgotten' people huddling in this safe space to develop some empathy for them. I've come ...

  • Tristan Greene

• This game shows you how bots and trolls spread fake news on social media

  Troll Factory taps into the power of gamification to bring about awareness and "illustrate how fake news, emotive content ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Studying brains can explain why tech affects men and women differently

  Results found that when men see pictures of video games, the part of the brain that causes addiction showed higher levels ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Study: Weaponized misinformation from political parties is now a global problem

  A study found that since 2017, organized social media manipulation has more than doubled with at least 70 countries using ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Reddit and Gab's most toxic communities inadvertently train AI to combat hate speech

  A team of researchers from UC Santa Barbara and Intel took thousands of conversations from the scummiest communities on Reddit ...

  • Tristan Greene