Newtonian indebtedness usually goes to Isaac. However, there’s another Newton to whom we owe a great deal: Newton Minow—a pioneer in the field of media crap det... Read More »
Partisan consultancies like Cambridge Analytica that use data analytics to sway the electorate rely on social network users’ participation in their own psycholo... Read More »
Instead of liberating us from the biases of the educated among us, the Internet has saddled us with the biases of the unreasoned among us.
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We need to bring serious study of misinformation and deception into the academy for analysis. A new discipline might be just the vehicle.
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The Equifax data breach has exposed nearly half of the US adult population to identity theft, but that’s not the real story.
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Science and scholarship are under attack from all sides. To a large degree the lack of appreciation is due to a fundamental misunderstanding about the nature of... Read More »
By Hal Berghel
The real story behind alleged foreign interference in our election isn’t that it occurred—any impact on the outcome from Russian hacking and tro... Read More »
Much has been made of the dark web’s dangers, but democracy has more to fear from Citizens United and the global surveillance industry than Silk Road or Tor.
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An informal analysis of changes in configuration options and default settings in recent Windows operating systems reveals how security concerns have changed ove... Read More »