Issie Lapowsky, Wired; Shadow Politics: Meet the Digital Sleuth Exposing Fake News
"After about 36 hours of work, during which
his software crashed dozens of times under the weight of all that data,
he was able to map out these links, transforming the list into an
impossibly intricate data visualization. “It was a picture of the entire
ecosystem of misinformation a few days after the election,” Albright
says, still in awe of his discovery. “I saw these insights I’d never
thought of.”
And smack in the center of the monstrous web, was a giant node labeled YouTube."
Ethically-tangled aspects of 21st century societies and cultures. In the vein of Charles Darwin’s 1859 “entangled bank” metaphor—a complex and evolving digital ecosystem of difference and dependence, where humans, technologies, ethics, law, policy, data, and information converge and diverge. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Thursday, July 19, 2018
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