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Adolescents treat ‘for you’ algorithms as a social mirror and are willing to give up privacy to use it.
Visually appealing and cheap to produce, AI-generated images allow scammers and spammers to post high volumes of engaging content − and Facebook’s algorithm may be promoting these posts.
A new change to Meta’s apps will see users no longer recommended political content by default. The ramifications of this will be far-reaching.
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Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Research Fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University
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Research Assistant at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University
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Research Manager of the Stanford Internet Observatory, Stanford University
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Assistant Professor of Information Technology, George Mason University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Senior Research Fellow, Food Studies Centre, SOAS University of London, SOAS, University of London
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS, University of London
