Computer Sciences
A developing technology called "blockchain" has gotten attention from election officials, startups and even Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang as a potential way to boost voter turnout and public trust in election ...
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It could be a manipulated video embarrassing a candidate. Or a computer voting system locked by ransomware. Or doubts about electronic voting machines with no paper backups.
Sep 22, 2019
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Software
Microsoft said Friday it will offer free security updates through the 2020 election in the United States—and in other interested democratic countries with national elections next year—for federally certified voting systems ...
Sep 20, 2019
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Internet
Indiana University's Observatory on Social Media has launched a new tool in the fight against online disinformation: BotSlayer.
Sep 12, 2019
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Dumbfakes and deepfakes are edited or altered videos. In just the past few years, the capability to produce and share these videos has increased exponentially due, in part, to artificial intelligence.
Sep 12, 2019
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Computer Sciences
USC Information Sciences Institute (USC ISI) computer scientist, Emilio Ferrara, has new research indicating that bots or fake accounts enabled by artificial intelligence on social media have evolved and are now better able ...
Sep 05, 2019
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Internet
Facebook said technology firms and US officials met at its Silicon Valley headquarters on Wednesday to collaborate on protecting next year's presidential election from cyber threats.
Sep 05, 2019
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Facebook said Wednesday it would tighten its rules for political ad spending ahead of the 2020 US elections, notably by requiring more information about who is paying for campaign messages.
Aug 28, 2019
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Hundreds of local clerks are using outdated computer systems and aren't installing security patches on their current systems, leaving Wisconsin's election system vulnerable to potentially devastating cyberattacks, state elections ...
Aug 09, 2019
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Internet
The upcoming Canadian federal election once again raises the spectre of interference and disruption through the misuse and abuse of personal data.
Aug 06, 2019
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Internet
Facebook's News Feed algorithm determines what users see on its platform—from funny memes to comments from friends. The company regularly updates this algorithm, which can dramatically change what information people consume.
Jul 24, 2019
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Computer Sciences
MIT researchers are hoping to advance the democratization of data science with a new tool for nonstatisticians that automatically generates models for analyzing raw data.
Jan 16, 2019
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Kamala Harris has been the target of social media misinformation campaigns since she became a U.S. senator.
Aug 03, 2018
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An election is a decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold formal office. This is the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy fills offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government. This process is also used in many other private and business organizations, from clubs to voluntary associations and corporations.
The universal use of elections as a tool for selecting representatives in modern democracies is in contrast with the practice in the democratic archetype, ancient Athens. Elections were considered an oligarchic institution and most political offices were filled using sortition, also known as allotment, by which officeholders were chosen by lot.
Electoral reform describes the process of introducing fair electoral systems where they are not in place, or improving the fairness or effectiveness of existing systems. Psephology is the study of results and other statistics relating to elections (especially with a view to predicting future results).
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