Zeynep Tufekci
Media & Entertainment
Study of YouTube comments finds evidence of radicalization effect
2:21 pm PST • January 28, 2020
Research presented at the ACM FAT 2020 conference in Barcelona today supports the notion that YouTube’s platform is playing a role in radicalizing users via exposure to far-right ideologies. The…
Security researchers call for Guardian to retract false WhatsApp “backdoor” story
2:56 am PST • January 20, 2017
A thirty-strong group of security researchers have co-signed an open letter calling for the Guardian to retract a story it published last week that had claimed mobile messaging app WhatsApp…