11.7. Bibliography#

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Zack Whittaker. Facebook won't let you opt out of its phone number 'look up' setting. TechCrunch, March 2019. URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/03/facebook-phone-number-look-up/ (visited on 2023-12-07).

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Systemic bias. November 2023. Page Version ID: 1185361788. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Systemic_bias&oldid=1185361788 (visited on 2023-12-07).

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Fair Sentencing Act. May 2023. Page Version ID: 1153436887. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fair_Sentencing_Act&oldid=1153436887 (visited on 2023-12-07).

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Kelsey D. Atherton [@AthertonKD]. Oh, you're experiencing a structural problem? Have you ever considered trying different personal choices instead? April 2019. URL: https://twitter.com/AthertonKD/status/1120376944061583360 (visited on 2023-12-07).

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Elon Musk [@elonmusk]. Trashing accounts that you hate will cause our algorithm to show you more of those accounts, as it is keying off of your interactions. Basically saying if you love trashing *that* account, then you will probably also love trashing *this* account. Not actually wrong lol. January 2023. URL: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1615194151737520128 (visited on 2023-12-07).

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Kurt Wagner. Inside Twitter’s ambitious plan to clean up its platform. Vox, March 2019. URL: https://www.vox.com/2019/3/8/18245536/exclusive-twitter-healthy-conversations-dunking-research-product-incentives (visited on 2023-12-07).

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Fiona Tapp. Digital Reminders of a Lost Pregnancy. The Atlantic, November 2018. URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/11/digital-reminders-miscarriages/575050/ (visited on 2023-12-07).

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Lauren Goode. I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget. Wired, 2021. URL: https://www.wired.com/story/weddings-social-media-apps-photos-memories-miscarriage-problem/ (visited on 2023-12-07).

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Lauren Feiner. DOJ settles lawsuit with Facebook over allegedly discriminatory housing advertising. CNBC, June 2022. URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/21/doj-settles-with-facebook-over-allegedly-discriminatory-housing-ads.html (visited on 2023-12-07).

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Kashmir Hill. How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did. Forbes, February 2012. URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/ (visited on 2023-12-07).

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Arvind Narayanan. TikTok’s Secret Sauce. Knight First Amendment Institute, December 2022. URL: http://knightcolumbia.org/blog/tiktoks-secret-sauce (visited on 2023-12-07).

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Daisuke Wakabayashi and Sapna Maheshwari. Advertisers Boycott YouTube After Pedophiles Swarm Comments on Videos of Children. The New York Times, February 2019. URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/technology/youtube-pedophiles.html (visited on 2023-12-07).

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Joe Hernandez. A parents' lawsuit accuses Amazon of selling suicide kits to teenagers. NPR, October 2022. URL: https://www.npr.org/2022/10/09/1127686507/amazon-suicide-teenagers-poison (visited on 2023-12-07).

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Echo chamber (media). December 2023. Page Version ID: 1188142141. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Echo_chamber_(media)&oldid=1188142141#Echo_chambers_vs_epistemic_bubbles (visited on 2023-12-07).

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Safe space. November 2023. Page Version ID: 1186055672. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Safe_space&oldid=1186055672 (visited on 2023-12-07).

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Petter Törnberg. How digital media drive affective polarization through partisan sorting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(42):e2207159119, October 2022. URL: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2207159119 (visited on 2023-12-07), doi:10.1073/pnas.2207159119.

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Jeremy B. Merrill and Will Oremus. Five points for anger, one for a ‘like’: How Facebook’s formula fostered rage and misinformation. Washington Post, October 2021. URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/26/facebook-angry-emoji-algorithm/ (visited on 2023-12-07).

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The Economist. According to Twitter, Twitter’s algorithm favours conservatives. The Economist, November 2021. URL: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/11/13/according-to-twitter-twitters-algorithm-favours-conservatives (visited on 2023-12-07).

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Zeeshan Aleem. Opinion: Dunking on Twitter feels incredibly good. Turns out it could be backfiring. MSNBC, November 2021. URL: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/twitter-s-algorithm-might-amplify-ratioed-conservatives-time-rethink-dunking-n1283364 (visited on 2023-12-07).

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Homa Hosseinmardi. Cable news has a much bigger effect on America’s polarization than social media, study finds. Nieman Journalism Lab, August 2022. URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/08/cable-news-has-a-much-bigger-effect-on-americas-polarization-than-social-media-study-finds/ (visited on 2023-12-07).

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Noah Berlatsky. Opinion: The Civil War has a valuable lesson for Democrats looking to beat Trump. NBC News, July 2020. URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-american-civil-war-lesson-democrats-value-partisanship-ncna1234374 (visited on 2023-12-07).

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Rohingya genocide. December 2023. Page Version ID: 1188560046. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rohingya_genocide&oldid=1188560046 (visited on 2023-12-07).

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BBC. Facebook admits it was used to 'incite offline violence' in Myanmar. BBC, November 2018. URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46105934 (visited on 2023-12-07).

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Dan Milmo. Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide. The Guardian, December 2021. URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence (visited on 2023-12-07).

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Erin Kissane. Meta in Myanmar (full series) - Erin Kissane's small internet website. October 2023. URL: https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series (visited on 2023-12-26).

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Erin Kissane. Meta in Myanmar, Part IV: Only Connect - Erin Kissane's small internet website. October 2023. URL: https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-part-iv-only-connect (visited on 2023-12-26).

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Folding Ideas. In Search Of A Flat Earth. September 2020. URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44 (visited on 2023-12-07).

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QAnon. October 2022. URL: https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/qanon (visited on 2023-12-07).

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BBC. YouTube aids flat earth conspiracy theorists, research suggests. BBC, February 2019. URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47279253 (visited on 2023-12-07).