Tag: transparency
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Should there be a better accounting of the algorithms that choose our news for us?
7 December 2016
Authors: Brent Mittelstadt
The Facebook Wall, by René C. Nielsen (Flickr). A central ideal of democracy is that political discourse should allow a fair and critical exchange of ideas and values. But ...
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The MPs whose Wikipedia pages have been edited from inside parliament
21 April 2015
Authors: Josh Cowls
Grant Shapps is in the headlines after being accused of self-serving edits made to his own entry on Wikipedia, as well as unflattering changes made to rivals’ pages. But he may ...
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A Brief History of Political Wikipedia
16 April 2015
Authors: Eve Ahearn
Wikipedia places among the top Google results for almost all topics, including political parties and politicians. Wikipedia places among the top Google results for almost all topics – including ...
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Monitoring Internet openness and rights: report from the Citizen Lab Summer Institute 2014
12 August 2014
Authors: Ben Zevenbergen
The control of information flows on the Internet is becoming more commonplace, in authoritarian regimes as well as in liberal democracies. Ben Zevenbergen and Jon Penney discuss their presentations ...
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