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The BJP’s fake news (fake?) meeting
Reuters published a very interesting report on February 2, entitled ‘Exclusive-In heated meeting, India seeks tougher action from U.S. tech giants on fake news’. Excerpt: Indian officials have held heated discussions with Google, Twitter and Facebook for not proactively removing what they described … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis
Tagged Bharatiya Janata Party, Big Tech, Facebook, fake news, Google, social media, takedown requests, Twitter
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IBT’s ice-nine effect on Newsweek
In his 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut describes a fictitious substance called ice-nine: a crystalline form of water that converts all the liquid water it comes into contact with into more ice-nine. This is the sort of effect the International Business … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed model, Cat's Cradle, Columbia Journalism Review, CPM model, Daniel Tovrov, Facebook, Google, Google Pagerank, ice-nine, International Business Times, Kurt Vonnegut, late capitalism, Newsweek, search engine
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A for-publishers stack and the symmetry of globalisation
Journalism as the fourth estate has been noticeably empowered in the Information Age, with technologies like the WWW, broadband connectivity and smartphones in (almost) everyone’s pockets. However, the opportunities to responsibly exercise the resulting power have been coming at a … Continue reading
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Tagged apps, blogging, Chrome, discoverability, Google, infrastructure, online journalism, Pocket, tech stack, WordPress, WWW
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Gravitational lensing and facial recognition
The galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 shows an example of strong gravitational lensing – and an optical illusion called pareidolia. Continue reading
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Tagged algorithmic pareidolia, DeepDream, facial recognition, fusiform face area, Google, image processing, LSD, neural networks, pareidolia, SDSS J1038+4849, social threat perception, strong gravitational lensing, visual cortex
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Alibaba IPO – A vindication of China’s Internet?
If China wants Alibaba to go international, it will find it tough to take refuge behind its current Internet governance policies. Anuj Srivas explains. Continue reading
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Tagged Alibaba IPO, China, Google, Great Firewall, Internet censorship, Internet governance, Microsoft, privacy, transparency, Yahoo!
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