by Merdan Rozyyev | Jan 5, 2023 | Sabanci University
Turkey has recently enacted a new law on media disinformation, which has sparked widespread concern and criticism from human rights organizations, media freedom advocates, and international bodies such as the United Nations. This is because its definitions of...
by Bengisu Gulsen Kosarhan | Jan 5, 2023 | Sabanci University
Kate Crawford in her book Atlas of AI argues that AI “grew on the battlefield where it was used to detect enemies, strange objects and maintain strategic control”. [1]The technology to which we created for military usage therefore inherently used for...
by Ali Cevat Ulubas | Dec 27, 2022 | Sabanci University
Blog Post The Case of Hunter Biden’s Laptop Elon Musk recently bought Twitter, a social media platform that has over 200 million users worldwide. After his purchase Musk announced a couple of new measures such as “relaxing content restrictions, combating fake and...
by Declan Busche | Dec 20, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton
Democratic Erosion and a Coup in Myanmar Myanmar, or Burma, is a Southeast Asian country that neighbors Thailand. It is a nation now-controlled by its military. Prior to February 2021, Myanmar was a newly democratic government, one that was developing relationships...
by Kevin Liao | Dec 8, 2022 | Boston University
Context On December 2nd, Elon Musk retweeted a thread which was posted at Musk’s behest by Matt Taibbi, called The “Twitter Files.” The thread details the censorship Twitter executives engaged in during the 2020 election. The censorship is concerned with a New York...