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The Download: fixing social media, and US monkeypox vaccines
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
Social media is polluting society. Moderation alone won’t fix the problem
We all want to be able to speak our minds online—to be heard by our friends and talk (back) to our opponents. At the same time, we don’t want to be exposed to speech that is inappropriate or crosses a line. Technology companies address this conundrum by setting standards for free speech, a practice protected under federal law, hiring in-house moderators to examine individual …
Social media is polluting society. Moderation alone won’t fix the problem
We all want to be able to speak our minds online—to be heard by our friends and talk (back) to our opponents. At the same time, we don’t want to be exposed to speech that is inappropriate or crosses a line. Technology companies address this conundrum by setting standards for free speech, a practice protected under federal law. They hire in-house moderators to examine individual pieces of content and remove them if posts violate predefined rules set by the platforms.
The approach clearly has problems: harassment, misinformation about topics like public health, and false descriptions of legitimate elections run …
Market Targeted Software Program Solutions And Services
In the transaction, Encore acquires the Technology and Cloud business that focuses on the sale and distribution of computers, community and communications hardware, and interactive collaborative classroom applied sciences. The time period technology sector is frequently shortened to tech sector and is used interchangeably with the time period know-how trade. The data processing, hosting and associated providers trade generated $7.9 billion in working income in 2019, up 22.0% from 2018. This is due to rising demand for knowledge processing, cloud storage and artificial intelligence applied sciences, and the continued expansion of data internet hosting in Quebec and Ontario. Students will …
The cognitive dissonance of watching the end of Roe unfold online
I learned on a liveblog that I had lost the right to have an abortion.
When the United States Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade on the morning of June 24, 2022, I was one of the nearly 16,000 people reading SCOTUSblog, a news site launched 20 years ago, which has no official relationship with the Supreme Court, which has never been granted press credentials to the court, and which won a Peabody Award in 2013, the first blog to do so. On opinion days, its writers offer rapid-fire analysis and field reader questions on the liveblog, a space where …