Technology Articles Related to Social Media Harms
- Ryan-Mosley, T. (2023, May 15), Catching bad content in the age of AI, MIT Technology Review, https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/15/1073019/catching-bad-content-in-the-age-of-ai/?ref=everythinginmoderation.co
- Harbath, K. (2022, Dec 21), Opinion: The terrible options that face social media companies, CNN, https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/21/opinions/twitter-files-content-moderation-harbath/
- Verma, P. (2022, Dec 1), Meta’s new AI is skilled at a ruthless, power-seeking game, The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/01/meta-diplomacy-ai-cicero/
- Cross, K. (2022, Dec 1), Virality! What Is It Good For?, Wired, https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-virality-politics-change/
- Levy, S. (2022, Nov 8), Inside Meta’s Oversight Board: 2 Years of Pushing Limits, Wired, https://www.wired.com/story/inside-metas-oversight-board-two-years-of-pushing-limits/
- Stern, J. (2022, May 3), Please Ignore My Last 577 Tweets, I’m not selling NFTs, The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/05/moonbirds-nft-scam-twitter-hack/629745/
- Keller, D. (2022, April 25), What Does the DSA Say?, The Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2022/04/what-does-dsa-say-0#comment-899511
- Tiffany, K. (2022, March 31), TikTok Has a Problem, The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/03/west-elm-caleb-tiktok-mob-villain/629423/
- Satariano, A. (2022, March 24), E.U. Takes Aim at Big Tech’s Power With Landmark Digital Act, The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/technology/eu-regulation-apple-meta-google.html
- Cross, K (2022, Feb 3) It's Not Your Fault You're a Jerk on Twitter, Wired, https://www.wired.com/story/social-media-harassment-platforms/
- Zeitchik, S. (2022, Jan 17), Former Google scientist says the computers that run our lives exploit us — and he has a way to stop them, The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/17/artificial-intelligence-ai-empathy-emotions/
- Merrill, J., Oremus, W. (2021, Oct 26), How Facebook shapes your feed, The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2021/how-facebook-algorithm-works/?itid=hp-top-table-main
- Levy, S. (2021, Oct 25), Facebook Failed the People Who Tried to Improve It, Wired, https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-papers-badge-posts-former-employees/
- Edelman, G., (2021, Oct 25), How to Fix Facebook, According to Facebook Employees, Wired, https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-fix-facebook-according-to-facebook-employees/
- Horowitz, J. (2021, Sep 13), Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt.,The Wall Street Journal, https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-files-xcheck-zuckerberg-elite-rules-11631541353?mod=article_inline
- Albergotti, R. (2021, Aug 12), He predicted the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen?, The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/12/philip-agre-ai-disappeared/
- Zittrain, J. (2021, June 30), The Internet Is Rotting, The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/
- Knight, W. (2021, May 24), AI Can Write Disinformation Now—and Dupe Human Readers, Wired, https://www.wired.com/story/ai-write-disinformation-dupe-human-readers/
- Douek, E. (2021, April 21), What Facebook Did for Chauvin’s Trial Should Happen All the Time, The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/facebook-should-dial-down-toxicity-much-more-often/618653/
- Knight, W. (2021, March 31), The Foundations of AI are Riddled with Errors, Wired, https://www.wired.com/story/foundations-ai-riddled-errors/?bxid=5d2384bf24c17c5bdcf07341&cndid=38143441&esrc=WIRED_CRMSeries&hasha=37780322ce90f6873bd32f4e22c50bf1&hashb=6811fd881807f048ba31bd7eb600b5a069a4a2df&hashc=61378574f98679f31823aa9569610ddc56ba3ba30746d11143f6bc58a4d8e692&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=WIR_PaywallSub_040621_EditorsLetter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=WIR_PaywallSubs_Active
- Hill, K. Your Face is not Your Own (2021, March), New York Times Magazine https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/18/magazine/facial-recognition-clearview-ai.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
- Levy, S. (2015, Feb 05) This is Your Brain on Twitter, Wired, L https://www.wired.com/2015/02/this-is-your-brain-on-twitter/
- LaFrance, A. (2020, Dec 15), Facebook is a Doomsday Machine, The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/facebook-doomsday-machine/617384/
- Statt, N. (2020, May 26) Facebook reportedly ignored its own research showing algorithms divided users, The Verge, https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/26/21270659/facebook-division-news-feed-algorithms
- Levy, S. (2021, Jan 15) Facebook Can't Fix What it Won't Admit To, Wired, https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-facebook-cant-fix-what-it-wont-admit-to/
- Facebook Algorithms and Personal Data-The Pew Research Center https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/01/16/facebook-algorithms-and-personal-data/
- Simonite, N. (2021, Feb 04) AI and the List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words, Wired, https://www.wired.com/story/ai-list-dirty-naughty-obscene-bad-words/
- Edelman, G. (2019, Dec 13) How Facebook's Political Ad System Is Designed to Polarize, Wired, https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-political-ad-system-designed-polarize/