Facebook's exclusionary research initiative; Bannon's back, and he's hawking cryptocurrency; & more in Micah Sifry 1st post. civichall.org/civicist/infor…

Who uses Google Plus? Online racists, apparently; India's first civic tech conference; & more in Micah Sifry 1st post. civichall.org/civicist/haven…

Tim Cook's tricky balancing act; doctors speak out against family separation; & more in Micah Sifry's 1st post. civichall.org/civicist/stand…

Horror after horror at the US-Mexico border; reflecting on #PDF18; & more in Micah Sifry's 1st post. civichall.org/?post_type=ch_…

Why government websites are always such a mess; Microsoft responds to employees' concerns; & more in Micah Sifry 1st post. civichall.org/civicist/slips…

Using machine learning to shut down Facebook hoaxes; abusing statistics to justify family separation; & more in Micah Sifry 1st post. civichall.org/civicist/what-…

#NEW: Micah Sifry's latest for Civicist: What #vTaiwan Teaches Us About #DigitalDemocracy | "We can actually make a new kind of self-government flourish, one that blends old democratic forms...w new digital forms like...radical transparency to engender trust." bit.ly/vTaiwan62018

Fake news, real mob violence; how to mobilize millennials; & more in Micah Sifry's 1st post civichall.org/civicist/monet…

#NEW Micah Sifry: #CivicTech Gleanings from New Media Ventures New Innovation Round | "It’s interesting...that only two of the orgs being funded make a big deal of some of the latest buzz-words in tech, like #bigdata, #machinelearning & #artificialintelligence" bit.ly/MSC7518

Fitness trackers as national security risks; facial recognition for good; & more in Micah Sifry 1st post. civichall.org/civicist/facia…

Tech workers making their voices heard; weaponizing misspelled hashtags; & more in Micah Sifry 1st post. civichall.org/civicist/cripp…

A sweetheart deal for Amazon that could put communities across America at risk; Facebook's Wild West early days; & more in Micah Sifry 1st post. civichall.org/civicist/domin…

How Americans are using social media; trolling Trump via UK music charts; & more in Micah Sifry 1st post. civichall.org/civicist/fresh…

Amazon's commitment to dodging sales tax collection; why outrage over Facebook's Mail.ru scandal should match the Cambridge Analytica furor; & more in Micah Sifry 1st post. civichall.org/civicist/purge…

Why Silicon Valley should learn to move slowly and not break things; which came first: the stress or the smartphones; & more in Micah Sifry 1st post. civichall.org/civicist/collu…

Trump's presser with Putin prompts GOP sound and fury; the problem with PDFs; & more in Micah Sifry 1st post. civichall.org/civicist/gotta…

Specialized social networking sites see growth; Facebook continues to tip the scales for the far-right; & more. civichall.org/civicist/vulne…

The mastermind behind Macedonian teen troll farms; the quest to make political advertising on Facebook more transparent; & more in Micah Sifry 1st post. civichall.org/civicist/best-…

Unwitting stars of an online reality show; a historian's case for not listening to Holocaust deniers; & more in Micah Sifry 1st post. civichall.org/civicist/buzze…

How Facebook helps hoaxers of all sorts; Julian Assange overstays his welcome; & more in Micah Sifry 1st post. civichall.org/civicist/asymm…