(Anti)Trust

Issue Three • Apr 12, 2021

Technology depends on trust. People must trust their devices to respect their privacy, trust others online to engage honestly, and trust technology corporations to steward their products ethically.

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Here’s How to Build Trust in Algorithms

Data Ethics

The interdisciplinary proposal of explaining their decisions has galvanized philosophers, technologists, and policymakers alike

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Data EthicsPoliticsSurveillance

Is mass surveillance really protecting public safety?

Don’t Shoot the iMessenger

EditorialPsychologyScreen time

We must take a more integrative and compassionate approach to our loved ones’ screen time.

“Does Money Manipulate Art?”: How Today’s Crypto-Art Boom Revisits Questions Raised by 1960s Conceptual Art

ArtCrypto

The re-examination of the close ties between art and capital is not unique to the current crypto craze.

Extinguishing Misinformation

InterviewMisinformationStanford

The complexity of misinformation necessitates an interdisciplinary and cross-industry solution.

The Art of Online Friendships

Digital CulturePodcast

Maybe we can stop thinking of our online interactions as a poor-man’s-substitute.

Designing for Depolarization: Burner Accounts, Internet Anonymity and Stanford Missed Connections

PoliticsSocial Media

Anonymity may be capable of breaking echo chambers on digital platforms.

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