Computational social science has been distorted by commercial forces, and AI is making it worse.

AI imagery is no longer a hypothetical factor, but at the same time, we've been able to use AI in new ways ourselves to confront the challenge.

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The election of rapper-turned politician Balen Shah was shaped by platforms and algorithms built on the other side of the world, writes Aaradhyaa Gyawali.

A blog about how our ability make sense of everything is profoundly distorted by digital and social media.

How to find interesting and potentially confidential documents sitting on a publicly-accessible server or website

X is piloting a new feature that will help to identify the platform's best posts. The system is similar to how Community Notes fact-checking works.

Discover how digital decay and disappearing archives weaken public scrutiny and fuel misinformation.

Christopher Pelkey was killed in a road rage incident in Chandler in 2021, but last month, artificial intelligence brought him back to life during his killer’s sentencing hearing.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long claimed a secret database holds the truth about vaccines and autism. Now that he's in charge, his anti-vaccine supporters wonder — can he deliver?

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Ivan Sigal writes that many of us, caught in the amnesia of our endless scrolling, seem to have forgotten that we control our attention.

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As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

Cash Jordan made a name for himself showing off New York apartments. Now his YouTube channel is all crime and conspiracy. What happened?

On 10 March the Columbia Journalism Dean delivered the 2025 Reuters Memorial Lecture. Here's the transcript of his talk.

Social scientists need to understand how. As do we all.

A conversation about fascism as Europe faces the darkness in the west

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Three months ago, I warned we were entering the age of technoauthoritarianism. It's now here. We can and must fight back.

DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.

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The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Meta is going to “get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with Community Notes similar…

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