The Big Ten is winning when it comes to football and basketball, but failing basic economics.
An overwhelming majority of large research institutions in the Big Ten and other schools in the geographic region are falling behind their peers in other regions and it’s hurting all of us.
During the last decade, Michigan held its own as the country’s second-largest academic research institution, according to data released in January by the National Science Foundation. But consider the declines.
Wisconsin fell five spots to eighth; Pittsburgh and Minnesota fell four each to 15th and 17th; Penn State and Ohio State fell nine each to 23th and 25th; Washington University, St. Louis fell 10 to 28th; Northwestern fell three to 29th; Illinois fell four to 38th; Purdue fell eight to 40th; and the University of Chicago fell 16 to 56th.
While people around the country grapple with the implications, consequences and events that led up to the attack on the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, a group of notable experts are coming to the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law to discuss the attack, the events that preceded it and what it means for the current state of American democracy and governance.
26 Jan 2021
Social media giant Twitter has announced a new feature called “Birdwatch” which aims to encourage users to police and flag each other’s tweets if they believe they spread misinformation. The company claims it wants to “broaden the range of voices” fighting against misinformation, but the feature has the potential to devolve into flagging wars between different factions of users.
In a recent blog post, Twitter announced a new feature on its site called “Birdwatch,” which allows users to add notes with “helpful context” to tweets that they believe are misleading. To participate, users must have certain information on file with Twitter such as their phone number, ostensibly to prove the account belongs to a real person.
Twitter s Birdwatch pilot will allow users to flag content as misinformation
If the last few years of online life have taught us anything, it s that misinformation has become one of the defining issues of our time. This was abundantly clear during the 2020 US election, and we all saw Twitter s attempts to combat the problem by adding notes to Tweets warning of false claims and untruths. Doing that kind of moderation on a large scale is much more difficult, so Twitter plans to trial a community-driven approach that leverages the hive mind of its millions of uses.
Through Birdwatch, participants will be able to flag content they believe to be misleading. They will do this by writing notes that other users will rate the usefulness of, a system that hopefully won t be too easy to manipulate. Participants must keep the Birdwatch values in mind at all times it s all about building misunderstanding, acting in good faith, and being helpful to everyone, whether you agree with their opinio
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Twitter on Monday unveiled a new community-driven approach to misleading information on its platform, allowing users to add notes to tweets they believe are false in an attempt to add context for other users.
It’s called Birdwatch, and Twitter launched its pilot program Monday. Fox News was given an early look at the program.
On Birdwatch, no account and no tweet is exempt from annotation, meaning users can add context to tweets posted by news outlets, reporters and elected officials.
Birdwatch will allow users to identify information in tweets that they believe are misleading or false, and write notes or notations to those tweets in a way they feel is providing informative context.