Governments, big tech and civil society organizations around the world are taking first steps to tackle disinformation and computational propaganda. We identify the weaknesses of the current measures and recommend ways forward from a digital technology point of view. A digital solutions perspective Last week’s terror attack in Hanau, Germany,…
Worldacquire at the United Nations IGF 2019
Worldacquire’s co-founders spoke at the UN Internet Governance Forum 2019 in Berlin to address two current issues in internet regulation and digital ethics. At a session about the effect of algorithms on elections, we pointed out that while most of the public’s attention is focused on the harms of “paid”…