- Targeted ads are one of the world's most destructive trends. Here's why: They have led to a proliferation of fake news and clickbait, fuelled surveillance capitalism and normalised pervasive tracking and data-mining. Then there’s their effect on democracy ... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/05/targeted-ads-fake-news-clickbait-surveillance-capitalism-data-mining-democracy 20 comments technology
- An analysis of data from 30 survey projects spanning 137 countries found that 75% of people in liberal democracies hold a negative view of China, and 87% hold a negative view of Russia. However, for the rest of the world, 70% feel positively towards China, and 66% feel positively towards Russia. https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/publications/a-world-divided/ 190 comments science
- [Rant] I find it hypocritical that at various occasions we chest thump about being the "World's Largest Democracy" but don't have any Data protections laws or an Independent office dealing with Privacy matters. https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/6s3mwq/rant_i_find_it_hypocritical_that_at_various/ 26 comments india
- How statistics lost their power and why we should fear what comes next: The ability of statistics to accurately represent the world is declining. In its wake, a new age of big data controlled by private companies is taking over – and putting democracy in peril https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/19/crisis-of-statistics-big-data-democracy 22 comments statistics
- A Data Map of Every Global Index Ever (well, most of them). See the annual progression of conflict, corruption, democracy, gender discrimination, human rights, happiness, terrorism, technology, and peace in states across the world. http://theglobalobservatory.org/2015/04/catalogue-indices-maps 29 comments geopolitics