VERIFY: Will the National Weather Service lose the ability to auto-publish some tweets?
Several NWS accounts have tweeted that its urgent posts may not reach Twitter users because of a new policy related to automation on the social media platform.
IDDP in the News
Writer, Adviser, Poet, Bot: How ChatGPT Could Transform Politics
The AI bot ChatGPT has passed exams, written poetry, and deployed in newsrooms, and now politicians are seeking it out — but experts are warning against rapid uptake of a tool also famous for...
Iraq 20 years later – what was the media’s role?
Babak Bahador has analyzed American news coverage of armed conflicts from World War II through the 2003 Iraq War, and he’s noticed a pattern in the way politics, public opinion, and the media impact...
What’s Next for Dominion After Its $787.5 Million Settlement With Fox News?
The election technology company has several more defamation lawsuits pending against public figures and news outlets.
How to empower fathers in the fight for mothers’ lives
How is it possible that in the richest nation on earth, childbirth remains all too often a death sentence?
Failing banks and mass layoffs: Is the 15-year tech boom finally over? What went wrong?
The long boom has ended, not with an overnight crash but with a months-long decline, rounds of mass layoffs, and a recent series of high-profile bank collapses.
Exploring the "reverse Scooby-Doo" theory of tech innovation
IDDP explores the "reverse Scooby-Doo" theory of tech innovation with its creator, Dave Karpf, a professor at George Washington University.
Citizens' Climate Lobby: Are you a consumer citizen?
Ethan Porter's book "The Consumer Citizen" states that citizens are now being asked to focus on what to buy--goods of all sizes, all prices--nearly all the time.
How could ChatGPT and artificial intelligence change politics?
So much of political rhetoric and marketing copy is a potentially ripe industry to be disrupted by artificial intelligence. But should voters be worried?
Fact-checking works insofar as people who see the fact checks are more accurate for having seen it, says IDDP's Ethan Porter. But fact checks are still limited.