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Jonathan Albright in Tow Center

Oct 13, 2017

Cambridge Analytica: the Geotargeting and Emotional Data Mining Scripts

Last year, Michael Phillips, a data science intern at Cambridge Analytica, posted the following scripts to a set of “work samples” on his personal GitHub account.

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Jonathan Albright in Tow Center

Jul 30, 2017

Who Hacked the Election? Ad Tech did. Through “Fake News,” Identity Resolution and Hyper-Personalization

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Jonathan Stray in Tow Center

Feb 27, 2017

Defense Against the Dark Arts: Networked Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda

In honor of MisinfoCon this weekend, it’s time for a brain dump on propaganda — that is, getting large numbers of people to believe something for political gain. Many of my journalist and technologist…

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Tow Center in Tow Center

Apr 13, 2017

A final, data-driven look at Trump v. Clinton on social media

By Jennifer Stromer-Galley

After the surprise win by Donald J. Trump, several postmortems have contemplated how Trump elevated Twitter to drive attention to his candidacy. A scholarly forum in the…

Jacob L. Nelson in Tow Center

Nov 3, 2017

What We Learned, and What We’re Doing, after Our Workshop on News, Polarization, and Public Spheres in Kentucky

By: Sam Ford and Andrea Wenzel

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Francesco Marconi in Tow Center

Oct 18, 2017

Why journalism schools are teaching students artificial intelligence

The Tow Center for Digital…

Aviv Ovadya in Tow Center

Oct 20, 2017

Even in September of 2015, hyperpartisan news sites had massive engagement on Facebook

I just confirmed this by analyzing the top 150,000 articles for the month

These were the top 10 stories published by Tow Center in 2017. You can also dive into monthly archives for 2017 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

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Cambridge Analytica: the Geotargeting and Emotional Data Mining Scripts

Who Hacked the Election? Ad Tech did. Through “Fake News,” Identity Resolution and Hyper-Personalization

Defense Against the Dark Arts: Networked Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda

A final, data-driven look at Trump v. Clinton on social media

How Perceptions of the News Audience Shape Pursuits of the News Audience

Reality Jamming: The Future of Information Online

15 ways funders, J-Schools and researchers can better support local journalism

What We Learned, and What We’re Doing, after Our Workshop on News, Polarization, and Public Spheres in Kentucky

Why journalism schools are teaching students artificial intelligence

The Tow Center for Digital…

Even in September of 2015, hyperpartisan news sites had massive engagement on Facebook

I just confirmed this by analyzing the top 150,000 articles for the month