Inside 4chan's Top-Secret Moderation Machine
[photo1]Justin LingOn May 14, 2022, 18-year-old Payton Gendron sent out a link to a select group of online friends. It was an invite to a private Twitch stream, access to his running online diary, and...
[photo1]Justin LingOn May 14, 2022, 18-year-old Payton Gendron sent out a link to a select group of online friends. It was an invite to a private Twitch stream, access to his running online diary, and...
Chris Stokel-WalkerSocial media algorithms can do wonderful things. They have the power to make or break careers, amplify political polarization (Facebook, Twitter), make people do dumb stuff for clic...
[photo1]Steven LevyThe invasion of chatbots has disrupted the plans of countless businesses, including some that had been working on that very technology for years (looking at you, Google). But not Ar...
[photo1]Graduation at CUNY Law earned a little more coverage than usual this year. Graduate speaker Fatima Mohammed covered a lot of the usual ground, reminiscing about major events over the last thre...
Apple makes great products, but it's hard to get around the fact that they also tend to cost more than the competition. But there's a way around the so-called "Apple tax." You just need to buy refurbi...
[photo1]Our Supreme Court justices are on the side of big business. The takeaway from Sackett, besides Clarence Thomas being A-OK with child labor law rollbacks, is that the justices will prioritize p...
Not so fast...Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.I think it's that they see their strength and they're recruiting for areas that do have growth, and they just haven't red...
In an effort to put more onus on crowdsourced moderation, Twitter has launched Community Notes for images in posts. The company is aiming to address scenarios of morphed images or AI-generated images ...
There's a macabre adage in journalism: If it bleeds, it leads. That means, in essence, that the more violence or conflict a story contains, the more prominent it will appear, whether in print or on t...
The great lit of cord-cutting: Streaming TV is still expensive. One or two subscriptions seems manageable, but by the time you're paying for all the services necessary to watch every show currently in...
How would they know? They'll never know.You know what's great about legal writing? I'll give you a moment. Had enough and went to ChatGPT to give you a skeleton outline for why legal writing is res ip...
When you made the first version of your resume, you probably aligned it with the advice of whoever was helping you at the time: your college professor, your parents, a friend, or the wisdom of the int...
[photo1]Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Trivia Question of the Day!According to the latest LexisNexis CounselLink report, Biglaw partner billing rates are surging in certain practice a...
[photo1]"Is this your client?" Those four words in conjunction with an easily swayed jury are the stuff of nightmares for a trial attorney. As often as it may be the case that some dude off the street...
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Saturday morning. Something really scary is happening. It's an internet-powered horror story unfolding in front of us in three in...
Ars Frontiers kicked off Monday with a panel called "TikTok--Banned or Not, It's Probably Here to Stay," featuring experts on TikTok, data privacy, and cybersecurity.It just so happened that the week ...
(Photo by Staci Zaretsky)An interesting path in the long trail of gifts and monies that changed hands from Harlan Crow to Clarence Thomas was, once you look past the illegality of it, kind of heartfel...
Early-stage startup founders, listen up! We're on the Startup Battlefield 200 (SB 200) homestretch. You have just one week left to hunker down and show us why we should pick you to join our elite coho...
[photo1]So what now? As the Robed Ones prepare to make Bakke go the way of the dodo, schools are preemptively scrambling to determine how to reap the benefits of a diverse student body without running...
Image via YouTube/ Christian CooperDon't you just love when judges give a little bit of pushback? It is interesting to get a record of in opinions like the spat between Justices Kagan and Sotomayor, b...