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Multi-task learning model enhances hate speech identification

Researchers have developed a new way to automatically detect hate speech on social media platforms more accurately and consistently using a new multi-task learning (MTL) model; a type of machine learning model that works ...

How Google allegedly monopolized the ad technology market

Google has monopolized the technology used to buy and sell online display ads by restricting or eliminating the choices of its customers—both website publishers and advertisers—the U.S. Justice Department alleged at a ...

Algorithmic insight could combat clickbait and fake news

The media landscape is increasingly complicated. It is also plagued by sensationalism and a disconnection between media literacy and management practices. Many observers worry about the proliferation of "click bait" and "fake ...

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Rise of the web's 'pay for privacy' model

Users of Facebook and Instagram in Europe can now pay to opt out of the onerous data sharing obligations imposed by parent company Meta, which sells the data to advertising clients.

Polarized world threatens open internet: ICANN

After 25 years of keeping the internet strong and stable, the nonprofit ICANN—responsible for its technical infrastructure—is warning that increasingly polarized geopolitics could start cracking the foundations of the ...