
Facebook employs psychologist whose firm sold data to Cambridge Analytica
- Joseph Chancellor was co-director of GSR with Alexsandr Kogan
- Data harvesting scheme called ‘scam’ and ‘fraud’ by Facebook
The Hopi tribe is taking on an Arizona ski resort over its use of artificial snow: ‘People compare it to baptizing a baby with reclaimed water’
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Continue reading »The civil rights pioneer and scholar is most famous for his book The Souls of Black Folk, but his use of data to show inequality is still profound today
Continue reading »Arizona advocacy group says agents chase border crossers from Mexico into hostile terrain in a strategy that leaves many injured, dead or lost
Continue reading »It is crucial for a resilient democracy that we better understand how Google and Facebook are changing the way we think, interact and behave
Continue reading »Army Corps of Engineers will not grant the permit for the Dakota Access pipeline to drill under the Missouri river, handing a major win to environmental activists
Continue reading »A cadre of technologists, academics and media experts are thinking up solutions, from hiring human editors, to crowdsourcing or creating algorithms
Continue reading »Governor orders thousands of activists to leave the encampment, citing ‘harsh winter conditions’, but does not authorize police to carry out evacuation
Continue reading »Activists at the Malheur wildlife refuge were carrying guns – but ‘if native people were armed, we would be killed,’ says an activist at Standing Rock
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