President Donald Trump lashed out at social media Thursday accusing it of anti-conservative bias which he called one of the greatest threats to free speech in American history – and said he wished he could close down Twitter. He lambasted the platform as he signed an executive order in the Oval Office which is intended … Read more
President Donald Trump lashed out at social media Thursday accusing it of anti-conservative bias which he called one of the greatest threats to free speech in American history – and said he wished he could close down Twitter. He lambasted the platform as he signed an executive order in the Oval Office which is intended … Read more
Twitter has ‘fact-checked’ two tweets by China after it caused a political storm in the US by flagging two of Donald Trump’s tweets for accuracy – sparking fury from the president and accusations of bias. The social media giant added exclamation point warnings to tweets by China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman accusing the US of starting … Read more
President Trump is expected to sign an sign executive order on social media companies today that will expose them to government investigations into allegations of bias and more lawsuits. It comes after Twitter slapped two of the President’s tweets with a ‘fact check’ on Tuesday and Trump hit back by accusing tech giants of censoring … Read more
AI speech recognition systems from five major tech companies are biased toward people of color, as they make twice as many errors transcribing speech from black people than they do from whites, study reveals Study found systems from Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and IBM are biased Fed technologies some 2,000 speech samples from blacks and … Read more
Why a bath is more dangerous than a bomb: The Power Of Bad explores negativity bias and the ‘Crisis Crisis’ – the never-ending series of overhyped threats leading to actions that leave everyone worse off Authors’ message is that we are all wired to react more strongly to bad events They explore the negativity … Read more