Journal: AI Facial Recognition, Troll Shock Troops, and Online Polarization

Singapore: "Changi (airport) will be using facial recognition technology to offer self-service options at check-in, bag drop, immigration and boarding" What happens over the long term?

Oxford University: Where are the social media trolls and bots? A new working paper from Oxford (Troops, Trolls and Troublemakers: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation) assembled a global inventory of cyber shock troops used by governments, militaries, and political parties to manipulate social media.

Princeton University: What led to the US political factionalization? One of the big reasons is that the US news media lost its ability to set the context for the news (the facts). Traditionally, this context was set through the emotional and moral conjugation of the facts.

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