In the News

• Social media algorithms ‘amplifying misogynistic content’
  2/5/2024 – The Guardian
• US announces new restrictions to curb global spyware industry
  2/5/2024 – The Guardian
• Meta Oversight Board Warns Rules on Fake Posts Are ‘Incoherent’
  2/5/2024 – Bloomberg
• When Amazon's new AI tool answers shoppers' queries, who benefits?
  2/5/2024 – Reuters
• Fake Biden video prompts call for Meta to label posts
  2/5/2024 – BBC News
• World’s Longest Serving Central Bank Chief Targeted by Deepfake
  2/5/2024 – Bloomberg
• Shared Spotify Accounts Are Wreaking Havoc Among Couples and Families
  2/4/2024 – The Wall Street Journal
• How A.I. Is Remodeling the Fantasy Home
  2/4/2024 – The New York Times
• ‘They thought they were doing good but it made people worse’: why mental health apps are under scrutiny
  2/4/2024 – The Guardian
• Why You Keep Getting Useless Alerts on Your Phone
  2/4/2024 – The Wall Street Journal
• Should we fear an attack of the voice clones?
  2/2/2024 – BBC News
• Misinformation spreads in China on ‘civil war’ in Texas
  2/2/2024 – BBC News
• ‘If Instagram didn’t exist, it wouldn’t have happened’: a mother’s search for her trafficked daughter
  2/2/2024 – Guardian
• Journalists, lawyers and activists hacked with Pegasus spyware in Jordan, forensic probe finds
  2/1/2024 – AP News
• Big Tech move into finance to come under closer EU scrutiny
  2/1/2024 – Reuters
• Generative A.I.’s Biggest Impact Will Be in Banking and Tech, Report Says
  2/1/2024 – The New York Times
• I'm Singaporean! TikTok CEO denies China Communist Party ties
  2/1/2024 – BBC News
• A.I. Fuels a New Era of Product Placement
  2/1/2024 – The New York Times
• Can This A.I.-Powered Search Engine Replace Google? It Has for Me.
  2/1/2024 – The New York Times
• US Bitcoin Miners Use as Much Electricity as Everyone in Utah
  2/1/2024 – Bloomberg
• Ex-CIA software engineer sentenced to 40 years for giving secrets to WikiLeaks
  2/1/2024 – The Guardian
• Norman Jewison’s ‘Rollerball’ depicted a world in which corporations controlled all information – is this dystopian vision becoming reality?
  2/1/2024 – The Conversation
• Are social media apps ‘dangerous products’? 2 scholars explain how the companies rely on young users but fail to protect them
  2/1/2024 – The Conversation
• FBI director warns that Chinese hackers are preparing to ‘wreak havoc’ on US critical infrastructure
  1/31/2024 – CNN
• Grave peril of digital conspiracy theories: ‘What happens when no one believes anything anymore?’
  1/31/2024 – AP News