Little-Known Surveillance Program Captures Money Transfers Between U.S. and More Than 20 Countries WSJ
Websites Selling Abortion Pills Are Sharing Sensitive Data With Google ProPublica
“Misinformation exposure scores measure how much the politicians and public organizations you follow tend to lie (based on fact-checking their claims by PolitiFact). These scores go from 0 (none of the fact-checked claims by politicians and public figures you follow are false) to 1 (all of the fact-checked claims by politicians and public organizations you follow are false). Partisanship scores measure how much you tend to follow politicians from the left versus right side of the political spectrum. These scores go from -1 (follow only left-leaning accounts) to 1 (follow only right-leaning accounts).
- You can also use our API to get the scores. Source code for this app is available here.
- Citation: Measuring exposure to misinformation from political elites on Twitter. Mosleh, M. & Rand, D.G., Nature Communications, 2022. See Tweet thread.
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Database States – No database is neutral The Baffler -Sanjana Varghese: The UK, as it turns out, is not particularly adept at securing its data. In 2009, a group of British academics released a report calling the UK a “database state,” citing the existence of forty-six leaky databases that were poorly constructed and badly maintained.
Databases that they examined ranged from one on childhood obesity rates (which recorded the height and weight measurements of every school pupil in the UK between the ages of five and eleven) to IDENT, a police database containing the fingerprints of all known offenders. “In too many cases,” the researchers wrote, “the public are neither served nor protected by the increasingly complex and intrusive holdings of personal information, invading every aspect of our lives.”
In the years since, databases in the UK—and elsewhere—have only proliferated; increasingly manufactured and maintained by a nexus of private actors and state agencies, they are generated by and produce more and more information streams that inevitably have a material effect on the populations they’re used by and against.
More than just a neutral method of storing information, databases shape and reshape the world around us; they aid and abet the state and private industry in matters of surveillance, police violence, environmental destruction, border enforcement, and more…”
1. Claims about Indian start-ups.
2. Matt Gentzkow is new lead editor of AER Insights(good news, in my view).
3. Josh Barro on why not mint the coin.
4. Retrospective on Richard Posner.
5. Scholar migration and per capita income.
6. Image editing.
