Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Is this true? I don't know. Is is plausible? Well... yeah. "Dr. Joan Donovan, one of the world's leading experts on social media disinformation, says she ran into a wall of institutional resistance and eventual termination after she and her team at Harvard's Technology and Social Change Research Project (TASC) began analyzing thousands of documents exposing Facebook's knowledge of how the platform has caused significant public harm." Via Ben Werdmuller. More from The Hill, AP, Forbes, The Verge. Related: Harvard and MIT's Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative.

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