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Stories from the Deep Internet

When a Bot is the Judge

We encounter algorithms all the time. There are algorithms that can guess within a fraction of a percentage point whether you’ll like a certain movie ...
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Fake News & How To Stop It

Even before Election Day, 2016, observers of technology & journalism were delivering warnings about the spread of fake news. Headlines like “Pope Fran...
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The Chilling Effect

The effects of surveillance on human behavior have long been discussed and documented in the real world. That nervous feeling you get when you notice ...
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Star Wars vs Copyright

"George Lucas built a whole new industry with Star Wars." says Peter S. Menell, devoted science fiction fan and a professor at the UC Berkeley School ...
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Digital Alter Egos

Are you really "you" online? We asked around for stories of digital alter egos — secret identities that people maintain on the web and try to keep sep...
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