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CrowdTangle helped researchers and journalists track viral online falsehoods. Its closure in a key election year is dangerous
Open-source AI models promise a more democratic and transparent future. They can also be open to misuse – and ethical concerns remain.
Gaming or watching sports in the metaverse might be fun, but these ‘immersive online environments’ are also enabling new kinds of crime. To tackle this problem, we must first understand it better.
Canadians have been engaging less with news on Facebook since Meta’s decision to block journalistic content on some of its platforms.
Google, Microsoft and Meta have all reported significant emissions increases due to AI.
The government has revived the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill, but the way AI may be skewing news results and visibility is off the table for now. My new research suggests it should be a priority.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has already switched news off in Canada. Australia could easily be next – here’s what that might lead to.
Science fiction and technological innovation feed off each other in an ongoing back-and-forth that can play out over decades.
A new report has found that 15 per cent of English-speaking Canadians are paying for news in 2024, compared to 11 per cent in 2023. But it is too early to rejoice.
In a statement on Wednesday the commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, said she had decided to discontinue the federal court proceedings and instead welcomed the opportunity for an independent review.
Social media platforms need to open up data to Africans and researchers in the global south.
The global trade in data means minor drug dealing by 16-year-olds on social media could hurt their ability to get a job, house or insurance in their 30s.
People participate in online communities to share experiences and sympathy. AI chatbots that join the conversation can only pretend to offer either.
A new parliamentary committee will look into how social media operates in Australia, including how children access it. Regulating the industry won’t be easy.
The upgraded AI systems may even be able to undertake a form of reasoning.
As wildfire season approaches, Canadians —especially northerners and Indigenous Peoples — are being let down by Meta and their government when they need them most.
In the court of public opinion, Anthony Albanese’s rejection of the up-yours attitude of the man he labels an arrogant egotistical billionaire is Likely to resonate with many Australians.
Unlike the risks from AI’s capabilities, the economic risks from new technologies are knowable and can be mitigated
Four Ontario school boards have filed a lawsuit against social media platforms to force them to change practices that harm schoolchildren.
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
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Professor, School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, University of British Columbia
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Senior research associate, University of Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for an Informed Public, University of Washington
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Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney
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Professor of Management, University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Omar H. Fares is a Friend of The Conversation.
Lecturer in the Ted Rogers School of Retail Management, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer, Co-Director Research Centre for Journalism, Media & Democracy, Auckland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
