Category: waddell

Social media bots are damaging our democracy

Post author By Randall
Post date August 15, 2019
Categories In bot, botometer, bots, democracy, eliza, Facebook, Internet, irc, mass shootings, Politics, Social Media, Tech, tomorrow, twitch, Twitter, waddell

[ad_1] One need only look at the recently reported suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, who had been implicated in an international child sex-trafficking ring investigation, to see the effects of social media bots. Within moments of the announcement, Twitter flooded with conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein’s suspicious death. Unsourced assertions and hypotheses spread throughout the network faster […]

Killing comments won’t cure our toxic internet culture

Post author By Randall
Post date May 3, 2019
Categories In chen, comments, Internet, Tech, tomorrow, university of florida, university of texas at austin, waddell

[ad_1] “If I was painting a picture of a site we were gonna have, and then at the end I said, ‘Oh, by the way, at the bottom of all our articles we’re going to prominently let any pseudonymous avatar do and say whatever they want with no moderation’ — if there was no convention […]