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Washington Post human covering AI and the algorithms changing your life. Open DMs / drew.harwell@washpost.com

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    30 Dec 2018

    New: How AI-generated fake-porn videos are being weaponized to harass and humiliate women. We talked to targeted women in and out of the spotlight, including Scarlett Johansson, who called the Internet "a vast wormhole of darkness that eats itself”

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    NEW: White House officials are scrambling to deal with major fallout from the shutdown that begins next month, when $140 billion+ in tax refunds could freeze and 38 million Americans face see major food stamp cuts.

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  3. Five children died in a fiery crash on the way to Disney World, and the federal safety agency that's supposed to investigate isn't going because of the government shutdown

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    Face recognition algorithms have been shown to rate poorly when identifying dark skinned women. A new study shows so-called "emotion detection" software rates Black men as angrier and more contemptuous than white men, even when they are all smiling.

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  5. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    Hmmm. I cringe at this newsletter’s description of our coverage as “adversarial.” It’s a dangerous idea. We are not the opposition and do not view our mandate that way. We hold the powerful to account. Through reporting. Pretty simple.

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    Jan 4
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    Jan 4

    A hacker exposed personal data of dozens of German lawmakers – except those in the far-right party: Exfiltration of PII & weaponized disclosure is a growing risk to politicians & parties; paramount for govt to harden networks, social media & mobile devices

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  8. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    This is an amazing piece. To censor China's internet, the censors have to be taught the real version of Chinese history so that they know what to block.

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  9. Jan 4

    “We don’t view this delay as a totally negative experience,” the Trumps' partner said.

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    Jan 4

    Surprising finding: Housing vouchers mostly move black, Hispanic families into impoverished, segregated neighborhoods, even tho affordable apartments ARE AVAILABLE in more affluent communities with better schools, job opportunities

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  11. Jan 3

    Searching for images of CEOs or managers? The results almost always show men. Smart breakdown on the subtle way the Web shapes perceptions of women in the workplace

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  12. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    NEW: The Justice Department is investigating whether Ryan Zinke lied to Interior's inspector general. W/ and

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  13. Jan 3

    “Computing is too important to be left to men.”

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  14. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    Do you or your friends/family constantly get texts/calls from people who are pissed you keep calling them -- except it's not you? It's probably a robocaller, and I want to hear your stories. Slide into my DMs.

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  15. Retweeted
    Dec 31

    Bookmark this Tweet. will define the 2020 election. The 4chan/Reddit fringe right will cook up scandals with falsified video. It will get promoted in right wing media, the legitimate media will try to fact-check it, amplifying the scandal.

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  16. Jan 3

    Update: Spoke with a Google rep, who said it's been fixed. The search algorithm looks for pages that seem good for snippets, like listicles - but it doesn't understand language like we do, so it makes these kinds of mistakes. tl;dr: Context is AI's kryptonite. cc

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    Jan 3

    Slowly, fancy hipster cafes are arriving in Italy to take on the caffeine god, the Italian espresso. “The Italians don’t know they are drinking such bad coffee,” one barista told me.

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  18. Jan 2

    Trump's Festivus today had it all, from an airing of grievances to feats of strength

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    Jan 2

    Read 's latest on the irony of a government shutdown over the border wall: it's paralyzed the U.S. immigration system, from courts already struggling with backlogged cases to employers' ability to check the legal status of new hires

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  20. Jan 2

    This is what search-engine algorithm bias really looks like. Members of Congress could've asked Google's CEO about it, but chose instead to ask about the mean things in their search results

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    Jan 2

    Today on : is Congress more dysfunctional than ever? (yep.) Is fake porn as creepy as it sounds? (yes.) And, as put it - is the only happy thing happening 4 billion miles away? This show features the brilliant + - Listen!

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