Viral Polls Are Not Representative Polls(kevinreuning.com)

34 points by m-hodges 2 days ago | 34 comments

Blog post by political scientist Kevin Reuning analyzing Bluesky poll posts, finding polls more favorable to Democrats than average get reposted more, with R and Python code.

Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections(blog.citp.princeton.edu)

357 points by WaitWaitWha 9 months ago | 340 comments

CITP Blog post by Andrew Appel presenting a statement signed by 21 computer scientists arguing internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections.

An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot(blog.citp.princeton.edu)

97 points by leecoursey 26 days ago | 73 comments

A CITP Blog post by Max Springer examining an algorithmic flaw that can undermine secret ballot privacy in Georgia elections.

NSA and IETF, Part 2(blog.cr.yp.to)

15 points by zdw 11 months ago | 4 comments

New AI diffusion model approach solves the aspect ratio problem(news.rice.edu)

41 points by gmays 2 years ago | 17 comments

NPR won’t tweet from NPR until Twitter removes false “state-affiliated” label(niemanlab.org)

26 points by Amorymeltzer 3 years ago | 37 comments

Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely(covertactionmagazine.com)

826 points by onewheeltom 3 years ago | 368 comments

CovertAction Magazine opinion article by Ashley Gjøvik arguing that whistleblowers act as society's conscience but face severe retaliation for exposing the powerful.

A lot of population numbers are fake(davidoks.blog)

362 points by bookofjoe 9 months ago | 295 comments

A blog post by David Oks arguing that many national population figures are unreliable or fabricated, questioning how well we know the world's population.

Fake reviews are illegal and subject to big fines under new FTC rules(washingtonpost.com)

534 points by rrauenza 3 years ago | 223 comments

Washington Post Help Desk article on proposed FTC rules that would make fake online reviews illegal and subject to large fines.

Killing Community(marginalia.nu)

495 points by dasil003 3 years ago | 350 comments

A Marginalia weblog post arguing that venture-capital-funded social media inevitably degrades online communities, citing the 2023 Reddit controversy.

We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)

355 points by Georgelemental 3 years ago | 848 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.

I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'(blog.daviddodda.com)

829 points by DavidDodda 1 year ago | 427 comments

A blog post by David Dodda recounting how a fake job interview attempted to get him to run malicious code on his machine.