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Human Nature Spreads Fake News Faster Than the Truth

Published on March 12, 2018

Who’s to blame for the spread of fake news? Common suspected culprits are Russian bots…

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Is Tech Trying to Take Over Local News?

Published on February 7, 2018

At its core, social media functions as a modern avenue for information exchange. This is…

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Facebook Will Likely Have to Testify About Those Russian Ads

Published on September 19, 2017

Any banking app developer online during last year’s contentious U.S. presidential election knows that the…

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Tech Companies Stamp Out Neo-Nazis After Charlottesville

Published on August 17, 2017

The events this weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, shocked the nation, and Trump’s equivocating response threw…

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Airbnb Kicks Alt-Right Extremists to the Curb Before Protest

Published on August 11, 2017

One of the recurring themes in the tech world during the Trump era so far…

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Zuckerberg Listens to America (But Isn’t Running for Office)

Published on July 13, 2017

Before he was elected president, Donald Trump was just a businessman (by many accounts, a…

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Leak Reveals Facebook’s Content Moderation Policies

Published on May 23, 2017

Tasked with monitoring content generated from 2 billion users from a wide range of cultural…

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French Election Hacks Underline the Need for Cybersecurity

Published on May 8, 2017

When Dogtown Media was in Washington, D.C. a couple weeks ago for AppCon 2017, cybersecurity…

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Google Spotlights Fact-Checkers to Manage Misinformation

Published on April 11, 2017

Last week, Facebook announced its News Integrity Initiative, another gesture toward fixing the internet’s misinformation…

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Facebook Looks for New Approaches to the Fake News Problem

Published on April 4, 2017

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2016 was “surreal.” The Oxford English Dictionary went with…

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