How Google quietly funds Europe’s leading tech policy institutes newstatesman.com/business/secto…

Valtioneuvosto on tänään asettanut uuden ministerityöryhmän ohjaamaan digitalisaation, datatalouden ja julkisen hallinnon kehittämistä. Lue lisää Valtiovarainministeriö | Finansministeriet ja LVM tiedotteesta 👇 lvm.fi/-/ministerityo…

Kirjoitin siitä, mikä tiedekeskustelussa helposti menee pieleen. Puhe tiedevastaisuudesta ei lisää luottamusta medykblog.wordpress.com/2021/09/08/puh… lähteestä WordPress.com #tiede #tiedesome #tiedeviestintä

Maailmamme on täynnä dataa ja algoritmeja – terveyssovelluksista asuntolainahakemuksiin. On aika opetella uusi kansalaistaito: datalukutaito. 👇🏻 Puhutko dataa? -ohjelma Tiedekulmassa 23.9. www2.helsinki.fi/fi/tiedekulma/… #tekoäly Meeri Haataja Antti Honkela @karoliina_snell University of Helsinki

So what does this mean? It means that "third-party experts" Facebook consulted, as stated here by VP Boz, and then put forth by the co to speak with reporters, were not independent. It also shows the breadth of Facebook's influence over nonprofits that rely on donations.

Piilaakso päättää missä rautaesiriput nousevat ja laskevat. Globaalit digijätit voivat luottaa siihen, ettemme välitä. Facebook Files -uutisetkaan eivät enää jaksa meitä käyttäjiä tai mediaa kiinnostaa. #dataistuminen #journalismi suomenkuvalehti.fi/jutut/kotimaa/…

I'll thread them, every analyst, academic, journalist and regulator covering Facebook needs to review them and SEC needs to launch full investigation: Facebook's role in the 2020 election and January 6 insurrection /2 drive.google.com/file/d/1WPOaPE…

1/ The intellectual context in which BrunoLatour was operating in the mid to late 1970s is crucial for an understanding of his later work.

If you're interested in learning about the antitrust issues referenced in The American Innovation and Choice Online Act, here are 2 empirical studies I worked on with Adrianne Jeffries... On Google Search: themarkup.org/google-the-gia… On Amazon Search: themarkup.org/amazons-advant…

The only original things about Facebook’s metaverse are its scale and irresponsibility, Ethan Zuckerman writes: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

#Metaverse and critical phenomenology: "'Experience' is both what platforms (claim to) deliver, and the resource they cultivate, extract and exploit for profitability purposes" - By Ludmila Lupinacci - @[email protected] LSE Media & Communications blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2021/…

Over the past few weeks, the Facebook Papers have reaffirmed that FB has fueled the spread of hate speech & misinfo around the world. But there’s a crucial piece missing from the story. FB isn’t just amplifying misinfo. The company is also funding it. technologyreview.com/2021/11/20/103…

Finally some #digitalcompetition action from Competition & Markets Authority! Time is long due for it. Everyone will be better off when #platforms cannot buy their rivals just before they become truly competitive. We don't need miracles, we need enforcement and competition gov.uk/government/new…

Less ‘prestigious’ journals can contain more diverse research, by citing them we can shape a more just politics of citation. #ScholComm wp.me/p4m9em-bdW

Your research results are not as (statistically) significant as you think they are -- Factorial design edition econweb.ucsd.edu/~kamurali/pape… "After including all interactions, over half their results lose significance."

Sometimes #fakenews are aspirational, but that doesn't make them any more true. 4-day work week or 6 hour days never been on the Finnish government agenda. If anything, domestic political pressure in 🇫🇮 has been to the opposite direction

A lot of machine learning research has detached itself from solving real problems, and created their own "benchmark-islands". How does this happen? And why are researchers not escaping this pattern? A thread 🧵

"The Victorians established a powerful paradigm that continues to haunt us: that the future is (or can be) a utopia, and inventors and entrepreneurs are the ones who know how to get there." noemamag.com/back-to-the-vi… Noema Magazine ht Vinod Rajasekaran