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• President Donald Trump blames video games (again) for mass shooting

  The weekend was a particularly hellish one, as mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio occurred in less than 24 ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Why US public schools' creepy use of surveillance AI should frighten you

  Public schools across the US continue to spend millions implementing AI-powered surveillance solutions alleged to prevent ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Secret US Border Patrol hate group exposed on Facebook

  Investigative journalist A.C. Thompson from ProPublica today exposed a secret Facebook group for US Border Patrol agents full of racist and misogynistic comments and memes, including calls for violent action against immigrants and Democrats. The group, called “I'm 10-15,” a ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Deepnudes developer shuts it down, but the damage is done

  There's no positive use case for developing an app with the sole purpose of using AI to predict what a clothed woman, in ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Neuroscientists scanned radicals' brains to determine what makes them turn violent

  The young man sitting in the waiting room of our neuroimaging facility wearing skinny jeans and trainers looked like a typical ...

  • The Conversation

• You can't offer to murder cops on Reddit unless you're on r/TheDonald

  Reddit has a very specific policy prohibiting people from threatening bodily harm or attempting to incite violence. It uses ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Unwanted sexting linked to anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem

  A new study shows early evidence that receiving unsolicited sexual imagery through text, or being coerced into sending it ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Reddit operates exactly as it was designed -- and that’s a problem

  After carefully selecting a semi-automatic weapon from the trunk of his car, one of at least three, a 28-year-old gunman ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Women were fighting against sexual harassment online long before #MeToo

  Just two months after allegations of sexual abuse against Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein came to light in a 2017 New ...

  • The Conversation

• African women have their own versions of #MeToo to address local issues

  Nearly one and a half years ago when Alyssa Milano asked women to click MeToo on their social media platforms, the #MeToo ...

  • The Conversation

• Gillette triggers Twitter's right-wing elite with 'toxic masculinity' ad

  Who would have predicted that these fire-brand personalities would be shocked and offended over an ad asking men to be kind? ...

  • Tristan Greene