By
Author: Anti-Defamation League,
Author: Avaaz,
Author: Decode Democracy,
Author: Mozilla,
Author: New America's Open Technology Institute
Sep. 8, 2021
Social media algorithms and machine learning are contributing to the rise of online disinformation and pose a growing threat to our democracy, according to this report authored by the Anti-Defamation League, Avaaz, Decode Democracy, Mozilla Foundation, and New America’s Open Technology Institute as part of a collaboration through the Coalition to Fight Digital Deception.
Read economist Karl Muth, who invented the concept of dwell time, on why prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are yet another attention economy. Their mechanisms also might bring us closer to the worst problem online today—of the Internet eating real life, where crowd wisdom prospectively defines reality, rather than predicting it.
