New cybersecurity tools will ‘Protect Your Election’
The rise of cheap digital attacks like phishing and DDoS endangers democratic elections around the world, in which a well-timed data breach or site outage can meaningfully impact –… Read more »
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How Google plans to fight toxic trolls
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, says it plans to apply machine learning technology to promote more civil discourse on the internet and make comment sections on sites a little less awful,… Read more »
‘Countering violent extremism’ – challenges and responses
Violent extremism is caused primarily by religious ideology more than racism, poverty, military interventions by foreign governments and human rights abuses, according to a new global poll published this week… Read more »
Inside Google’s AI-powered war on trolls
Mass harassment online has proved so effective that it’s emerging as a weapon of repressive governments, notes analyst Andy Greenberg. In late 2014, Finnish journalist Jessikka Aro reported on Russia’s… Read more »
Vice News, Jigsaw partner to empower free expression
The global struggle for free expression is the focus of a new partnership between Vice News and Jigsaw (formerly Google Ideas, the firm’s think tank and technology incubator). A new… Read more »