Fake News Is Not the Only Problem

Bias, propaganda, and deliberately misleading information are much more prevalent and do more damage.

Be Careful What You Code For

Most people who don’t code don’t appreciate how hard it is to do right. Plenty of developers are perfectly…

What World Are We Building?

It’s easy to love or hate technology, to blame it for social ills or to…

Go to The Glass Room. If Black Mirror Had a Showroom, This Would Be It

Facebook Must Be Accountable to the Public

A pair of Gizmodo stories have prompted journalists to ask questions about Facebook’s…

Reality check: I blame the media.

For months I have been concerned about how what I was seeing on the ground and in various networks was not at all aligned with what pundits were saying. I knew the polling infrastructure had broken, but whenever I told people about the problems with the sampling…

The Point of Collection

The conceptual, practical, and ethical issues surrounding “big data” and data in general begin at the very moment of data collection. Particularly when the data concern people, not enough attention is paid to the realities entangled within that significant moment and spreading out from…

OKCupid data release fiasco

It’s time to rethink ethics education.

Does data-driven learning improve equity?

Student data matters. But it’s not all that matters.