Algorithms shape our beliefs

How does privacy impact the design of recommender systems?

Democratizing this subscription-based future will enable more writers to earn more money by writing about what truly matters. It puts the media’s destiny into the right hands.

Without independent public interest research and rigorous controls from regulators, it is impossible to know whether Instagram’s algorithms favors specific political opinions over others.

The time for mourning the loss of the old media model is over. Now is the time to look ahead to the next two centuries.

the indifference of social media to democracy increasingly clashes with the fact that social media have a growing impact on democracy.

Thirdly, algorithms not only contribute to creating and spreading fake news, but are also able to influence users, who tend to believe it, because it is truthful, but above all because it is in line with their ideas. Moreover, the average user tends not to verify the truthfulness of the news but believes it also due to a growing mistrust towards... See more

Privacy: AI can access enormous amounts of data about individuals and process it with incredible speed. AI can make predictions about a person’s behaviour, state of mind, and identity by sensing information that is not necessarily considered personal or private, such as facial expressions, heart rate, physical location, and other seemingly mundane... See more

His theory of political liberalism explores the legitimate use of political power in a democracy, and envisions how civic unity might endure despite the diversity of worldviews that free institutions allow.

There is not yet a shared understanding of digital privacy’s implications for democracy, particularly across varying political and legal contexts.