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Freedom to troll?
Should we be able to say what we want online? Politics, cyber-bullying and hate speech. The balance between free speech and online abuse is getting harder to define and police. What can and should be done to tackle it? In this Data Debate we will discuss trolling: the practice of...Ali, Nimco ; Kelley, Brittany ; Procter, Rob ; Wood, Roisin
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Social Media Data – What’s the use?
With over 2.72 billion users, social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook generate vast quantities of data every day. Analysis of this data can help us try to understand how people think and act. Social media analysis played a key role in guiding Obama’s 2012 election campaign and some...Margetts, Helen ; Bailey, Jefferson ; Vincent, David
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Data and Inequality
Data is a powerful tool that could help reduce inequality, enabling us to better understand and quantify key global issues. But machines are inheriting the same biases that exist in the offline world and faulty algorithms, when applied at scale, risk making things less fair than ever. A recording of...Berkeley, Robert ; Mayer, Catherine ; Salt, Karen ; Wachter, Sandra ; Shah, Hetan