Sameer Borwankar

Meta’s Community Notes program is promising, but needs to prioritize transparency Meta’s Community Notes program relies on crowdsourcing to counteract the dissemination of misinformation.

My article in The Conversation:

Meta’s Community Notes program is promising, but needs to prioritize transparency

theconversation.com/metas-commun...

Meta begins testing Community Notes in the US this week, and it’s exciting to see @mcgilldelve.bsky.social bringing attention to my ongoing research in this area (still going through journal review).

My work highlights the potential of Community Notes, while also pointing out some challenges.

"Like many others during the pandemic, I found myself drawn into TikTok’s highly engaging, algorithm-driven content recommendation system."

sameerb.substack.com/p/there-goes...

Fact-Checking, DEI Rollbacks, and TikTok: What Caught My Eye This Week What better week to launch my newsletter than the one where Meta (owners of Instagram and Facebook, for those who don't keep up) announced significant changes to their fact-checking programs?

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Fact-Checking, DEI Rollbacks, and TikTok: What Caught My Eye This Week

sameerb.substack.com/p/fact-check...

Fact-Checking, DEI Rollbacks, and TikTok: What Caught My Eye This Week What better week to launch my newsletter than the one where Meta (owners of Instagram and Facebook, for those who don't keep up) announced significant changes to their fact-checking programs?

Please subscribe to my newsletter

Fact-Checking, DEI Rollbacks, and TikTok: What Caught My Eye This Week

sameerb.substack.com/p/fact-check...

#ICIS2024 is going to be packed with two presentations (including one by a McGill PhD candidate), followed by another presentation at #WISE2024. Somehow, I still need to squeeze in time to submit a revision and complete a couple of reviews!

Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede

@science.org has an article about the academic exodus from X to this place:
www.science.org/content/arti...

(But they don't have a button to share the article on BlueSky, only one to share it on X.)

bsky.app/profile/did:...

#InformationSystems

“Gautam Adani, the billionaire founder of one of India’s biggest business conglomerates, was charged by the Justice Department with orchestrating a massive bribery scheme to pay off Indian government officials to secure lucrative solar-energy supply contracts.”

Privileged to be in this job. Looking forward to Winter 2024 at @mcgillu.bsky.social