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Call for papers is live for the Inclusive Gaming Conference! Submit your proposals and/or prototypes and participate in a day full of conversations around inclusivity, play, and the future of gaming.
The CfP deadline is 4th March 2024! oxford.games/ @JesusOxford
#ICA22 fantastic poster from @monaelswah on Russian-affiliated TikTok media as ‘soft power entrepreneurs’
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So fun recording our latest episode of @skeptechs with @HubertDAu (with @JoshCowls online) and getting to talk about our favourite new TV show, #Severance 📺
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I have been struggling for years to accept myself in the way I am as I don’t have a large breast. To me, it feels weird that FIDE picked #Breast Implants as a Sponsor for Women's #Chess.
I wonder when @FIDE_chess will have a sponsor for penis enlargement 🤔
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Please consider donating to this fundraiser from two Indian gig worker unions (@TGPWU & @Connect_IFAT).
I've been working with them to set up this fundraiser over the past couple of months -- they're doing amazing work to support ridehail drivers who caught COVID...(1/)
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New #misinformation briefing from @polbots @oiioxford finds top fifteen mainstream news outlets achieve greater distribution on social media than state-backed and junk news sources. 1/3 bit.ly/2G49xEP
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I spoke to @SophiaIgnatidou for @EP_ScienceTech about the @polbots team Covid-19 data memo series, including @HubertDAu and I’s content analysis of YouTube video results w/ some shout-outs to @beccalew & @alicetiara pathbreaking work on this.
New #ESMH interview:
@nahema_marchal from @oiioxford in about the work and findings of the Oxford Internet Institute on the spread of #coronavirus information across multiple platforms @SophiaIgnatidou @EvaKaili @woelken ⬇⬇⬇
sciencemediahub.eu/2020/07/1…
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A certain prestigious research group is getting some airtime for a claim that a sizable percentage of #BlackLivesMatter tweets are from bots. As a computational social scientist who has studied BLM tweets from #OscarGrant to #PhilandoCastile and in between, here's my take:
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I'm less concerned with a US Senator's views being unfit for the New York Times than I am with those views being completely unfit for a US Senator.
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Hiding privacy settings behind a "learn more" link is blatantly deceptive. The wording suggests a link to a privacy policy instead of controls, and is designed to minimize people clicking on it. The fact that it's so common says a lot about the sorry state of consumer protection.
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Oh, BTW, @NCSC claim that the server doesn't see the IP address of the client because the load balancer hides it.
This is a flat out lie.
Cloudflare pass on the IP address in a header - see support.cloudflare.com/hc/en….
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Our first weekly briefing on misinformation and #COVID19 is now live at: comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/researc…
Last week, articles produced by #junknews sources received over nine million engagements on Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook. @HubertDAu @jonmbright @pnhoward
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New research: The second data memo in our #COVID19 series looks at the information surfaced by YouTube based on popular search queries. Co-authors @nahema_marchal @HubertDAu @pnhoward. Read the full memo here: comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/researc…
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New Research: The first memo in our series on #COVID19 looks at coronavirus coverage by state-backed news outlets from China, Iran, Russia, and Turkey.
Read it here: comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/researc…
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The "dip" people are talking about in pneumonia cases is caused by the lag in reporting of deaths through the CDC.
Here is a chart of every CDC pneumonia report over time.
There is always a dip.
@ScottAdamsSays @balajis @DellAnnaLuca @chambersallan