Can #Twitter be used to detect barriers to #voting at polling places? This study uses #machinelearning to create a model that can identify voting barriers. Read: spkl.io/60124wchM Subscribe: spkl.io/60144wchO @Floridi Prathm Juneja @cdigitalethics Oxford Internet Institute #LawTwitter

‼️ ‼️ 🎙️🎙️new episode with Oxford Internet Institute colleague and Rhodes Trust scholar Prathm Juneja this week on political campaigning, technology in US elections and improving access to voting. Such a great chat drawing on Prathm’s political campaign experience and research! Link below 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

“It's a sad day for our country and our democracy when dominant industries, with assistance from unlimited dark money, get to choose their regulators..with the help of their friends in the Senate, the powerful cable and media companies have done just that" theverge.com/2023/3/7/23629…

Deeply disappointing news from @TwitterDev - academics currently have free access to 10mil tweets/month, soon to be downgraded to 10k for $100/month. If Twitter is a "public sphere", shouldn't the public have access to its data? Lots of important research will suffer from this

"We ask Twitter to reinstall the old API and to facilitate and expand, not restrict or limit, the quantity of data accessible through it." Here's a petition from myself, @jessRmorley and @Floridi to twitter - sign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/ne…

New blog from Keegan McBride and myself: AI is going to transform our elections, making them more personal and less human. And more importantly, AI is going to change what we prioritize in politics, and who gets a say in what that looks like. Read more here:

🎮 Players needed! 🎮 For my Oxford Internet Institute PhD, I'm researching how playing Tears of the Kingdom, Skyrim, & Stardew Valley shapes how we think and make meaning. Take a quick survey to share your experiences and indicate if you want to further participate! tinyurl.com/oii-games

The Computer Says Maybe podcast, hosted by @alixtrot is live! Loved co-hosting the first episode on: AI, our information ecosystem, and the 2024 elections. Surprise, this topic is a lot more nuanced than we're led to believe. Check it out here: saysmaybe.com/podcast

Have we got AI news for you! 🤖🗞️Join us at our Roundtable on AI & Elections, 22 May 2-3:30pm BST, where we will discuss the transformative power of AI in shaping electoral processes, focusing on its positive potential & necessary regulatory frameworks! 👉 tickettailor.com/events/technol…

The great problem with LLMs for tons of important public & private sector use cases is hallucination. We won’t solve that anytime soon, but this work from Neil Band and others is exactly where we need to go first. Check it out!

🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 Prathm Juneja and @Floridi analyze whether Twitter can be used to detect relative reports of polling place issues on U.S. election days. Available at: doi.org/10.1177/089443…

🚨 Just published in Minds and Machines (Open Access): Artificial Intelligence for the Internal Democracy of Political Parties , with @Floridi , Claudio Novelli, Prathm Juneja & Giuliano Formisano we discuss #AI potential to enhance democracy PSA Technology, Internet, and Policy (TIP) link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🚨New Pre-Print🚨 Counter-Misinformation Dynamics: The Case of Wikipedia Editing Communities during the 2024 US Presidential Elections. Available: papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=49… #Wikimedia #2024USElection #misinformation