This study analyzes the classification consistency of Large Language Models (LLMs) using geopolitical texts collected from social media. Data gathered under the headings of the United States, Russia, ...

Communication research has long established the impact of the communicator's social identity on persuasion. However, few communication studies have applied an intersectional lens to examine identit...

Early this morning, Sharif University of Technology, Iran’s leading technical university, was bombed. As of the writing of this post, it was unclear whether the bombing was carried out by the United S...

Today’s collection is a set of Ottoman-era data visualizations from Cerîde-i Adliyye (The Journal of Justice), a Ministry of Justice publication printed in Turkey in the mid-1920s.

Line handily sums up people’s bewilderment at state of world, but it isn’t quite what the Marxist thinker wrote

The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Bilim Akademisi Genç Bilim İnsanları Ödül Programı (BAGEP) 2026 Son başvuru: 23 Ocak 2026 – 18.00 BAGEP yönergesi ve protokolünü buradan, BAGEP Etik Beyanı’nı buradan görebilirsiniz. Bilim Akademisi t...

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’ A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests. Robby Starbuck, 36, of Nashville, was appointed in August as an adviser by Meta – owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other tech platforms – in an August lawsuit settlement. Continue reading...

The German airport was forced to suspend operations, in the latest drone disruption to European aviation Drone sightings over Munich airport on Thursday evening forced air traffic control to suspend operations, leading to the cancellation of 17 flights and disrupting travel for nearly 3,000 passengers in the German city. Another 15 arriving flights were diverted to Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Vienna and Frankfurt, the airport said in a statement, marking the latest drone disruption to European aviation after sightings temporarily shut airports in Denmark and Norway last week. Continue reading...

Eliza Manningham-Buller points to extent of cyber-attacks and other hostile activity orchestrated by Moscow Britain may already be at war with Russia because of the depth and intensity of cyber-attacks, sabotage and other hostile activity orchestrated by Moscow against the UK, according to a former head of MI5. Eliza Manningham-Buller, who led the domestic spy agency two decades ago, said she agreed with comments made by the Russia expert Fiona Hill, who argued in a Guardian interview earlier this year that Moscow was at war with the west. Continue reading...

Ever wanted to “get into” data science but felt like the entry requirements included a PhD, three nervous breakdowns, and a minor in alchemic sorcery? You’ve sat through “introductory” R/Python lectu...

The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...

The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

Stewards of Japanese American history are calling out the use of Fort Bliss to detain immigrants.

Visualize information spreading and sharing patterns across multiple social media platforms

AI mimics empathy well, but does its empathy feel different? The authors show human empathy has unique value: human-attributed responses are rated as more empathic than AI-attributed ones, especially ...

An ongoing surge of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled false content has been spreading its way through the information ecosystem, including AI-generated images, which have been used as part of poli...