Twitter will work with two university professors to understand the Internet “echo chamber”. A UK parliamentary committee calls for action to “build resilience against misinformation and disinformation into our democratic system”. How do we go about “fixing” the internet and ensure that misinformation is NOT passed along as objective fact?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Lamarr Wilson.
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Show Notes
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- Quick Hits
- (00:50) YouTube’s website now supports vertical videos without black bars | the verge
- (01:15) SoftBank taps Paytm for mobile payments in Japan | livemint
- (01:30) This is the leaked DJI Mavic 2 drone | tech crunch
- More Top Stories
- (02:20) Australian bank used blockchain to ship 17,000 kilos of almonds to Germany | the next web
- (04:30) Taxi strike targeting Uber brings chaos to Spanish cities | reuters
- (07:40) He’s challenging Starbucks with a robot-powered cafe chain across China | tech in asia
- (10:45) EA launches Origin Access Premier subscriptions for hot PC games | venture beat
- (13:25) Chinese “hackers” are sending malware via snail mail | tech crunch
- Discussion Story (16:00)
- Twitter turns to academics to improve conversational health on the platform | tech crunch
- Fake news inquiry calls for social media levy to defend democracy | tech crunch
- Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Interim Report | parliament.uk
- Sen. Mark Warner floats major tech company regulations that don’t include breakups | the verge
- Scoop: 20 ways Democrats could crack down on Big Tech | axios
- Thing of the Day
- Messages of the Day
- (26:05) Hutch – law enforcement use of facial recognition
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