Teach Global Impact in CSP | Resources and Strategies

Was New York’s Mass-Text Manhunt Really Unprecedented?

September 23, 2016December 18, 2017 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: The Verge, 9/20/2016 View the Article  Summary New York City police used the Wireless Emergency Alert system recently to send out a "Wanted" text message about a bombing suspect, and they plan to use…

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Facebook Backs Down From “Napalm Girl” Censorship and Reinstates Photo

September 19, 2016September 23, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: The Guardian, 9/9/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Facebook recently blocked a news article that reprinted a Vietnam War photo of a naked girl running from a napalm attack. The photo was flagged…

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A Beauty Contest Was Judged by AI and the Robots Didn’t Like Dark Skin

September 9, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: The Guardian, 9/8/2016 Summary: Beauty.AI developed a set of algorithms to judge photos according to five factors in human standards of beauty; it disproportionately chose photos of white people. The article discusses the potential…

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How an Algorithm Learned to Identify Depressed Individuals by Studying Their Instagram Photos

August 31, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: MIT Technology Review, 8/19/2016 Summary: Researchers have developed a machine-learning algorithm that achieves 70% recall in identifying depressed individuals by characteristics of their (pre-diagnosis) Instagram photo posts. This is a great example of a…

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Twitter Has Deleted 235,000 Terrorist-Related User Accounts in the Past Six Months

August 29, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: ReCode, 8/18/2016 Summary: Twitter announced that it has increased the rate at which it is suspending accounts the service identifies as promoting terrorism, and is working on ways to block the same users from…

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