Preventing Aggressive Ignorance – The A.I. We Don’t Think About
When UNC professor Zeynep Tufekci began watching Donald Trump rallies on YouTube, she noticed something odd. [1] YouTube began recommending and auto-playing extremist content—white supremacist videos, Holocaust denials, etc. In 2015 Twitter began sorting its timeline by algorithmically-determined “relevance” rather
Zurquul Grug’Nam
“Zurquul Grug’Nam.” Cliff sounded out the unfamiliar syllables, stroking his short red beard. “Zurquul Grug’Nam. Wonder what it means.” “Ssh!” Howard was almost six inches taller than Cliff, clean-shaven, and muscular. “Don’t say that! You want to ask questions, be a
Voting by App
The greatest threat to our democracy is not foreign interference in elections, or political polarization, or fake news. It is our voter turnout. A democracy is supposed to be a system of government by the whole population, but the 2016
Week of 02/24/20
Welcome to the first newsletter from the HTR team :)We’re bringing to you the most interesting headlines related to technology from this past week alongside exciting upcoming events in the Harvard community. This Past Week Opiod Vending Machines Open. Instead of going to the streets, those addicted to opioids