External Press
(Occasionally pasted here as discovered.)
Time — Meet the researchers working to make sure artificial intelligence is a force for good
Decipher — Supreme Court to Review CFAA for the First Time
The Register — Relax, breaking a website’s fine-print doesn’t make you a criminal hacker
Government Technology — University of Michigan Showcases New AI Ethics Center
Columbia Journalism Review — Building a More Honest Internet
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences — The Data Driving Democracy
MLive — Artificial intelligence researchers create ethics center at University of Michigan
Michigan Radio — Attorneys in unemployment fraud cases join forces, call for review of AI in state government
Michigan Lawyers Weekly — Legal teams representing falsely accused unite, call for task force
FOX 2 News Detroit — Call for state review of AI in government
The Michigan Daily — Escaping inequality in technology
Quartz — Why am I seeing this ad? explanations on Facebook are incomplete and misleading, a study says
The Michigan Daily — Stamps speaker series lecturer discusses misogyny, video games
The Economist — Facebook’s ad system seems to discriminate by race and gender
Motherboard — We Need Bug Bounties For Bad Algorithms
NPR — Google Tweaks E-mail Program That Assumed An Investor Was Male
Politico — Russia Gave Bots a Bad Name. Here’s Why We Need Them More Than Ever
Nature — Bias detectives: The researchers striving to make algorithms fair
The American Bar Association Journal — Good data, bad data: Algorithms fall short in predicting litigation outcomes
Learning Solutions Magazine — Bias in AI Algorithms and Platforms Can Affect eLearning
Material World — Living On Screen
Boston Globe — Facebook’s Mentality: Anything For a Buck
The Guardian — Most of what you do online is illegal. Let’s end the absurdity
The New Yorker — How an Old Hacking Law Hampers the Fight Against Online Discrimination
InternetActu — Comment nous passer de la personnalisation?
CBC — Tech-savvy investigators are ready to put algorithms under the microscope — if companies let them
National Law Review — Such Scraping “Plausibly Falls within the Ambit of the First Amendment”
Bloomberg — This Court Case is Bad News for Social Media Privacy
TechDirt — Court Says Scraping Websites And Creating Fake Profiles Can Be Protected By The First Amendment
Privacy SOS — We Just Got One Step Closer to Understanding Black Box Algorithms
Technology Law Dispatch — D.C. federal court rules that web scraping does not violate the CFAA
Axios — Suit to let researchers break website rules wins a round
Technology & Marketing Law — Researchers’ Challenge to CFAA Moves Forward
Michigan Daily — Privacy@Michigan panels present interdisciplinary take on future of internet privacy
JOLT digest+ — Terms of Service 0 – Researchers 1: Judge Rules in Favor of the Plaintiffs in Sandvig v. Sessions
Law 360 — Researchers’ Challenge To Anti-Hacking Law Kept Alive
JD Supra — Constitutional Challenge To CFAA Survives Motion To Dismiss As D.C. Court Weighs In On Circuit Split
Jewish World Review — Rogue professor’s case has potentially significant implications for the First Amendment and online privacy
openDemocracy — Pokéwalking while black
Slate — The Corrupt Personalization of Netflix
Time — The Latest Victim of Uber’s Disruption May Be Itself
Internet Actu — Uber, les gouvernances fantômes
Vox — How the Internet Keeps Poor People in Poor Neighborhoods
Poképlanet — How Pokémon Go Changes the Geography of Cities
The Christian Science Monitor — Will Facebook’s ‘trending’ kerfuffle alter the way we read news?
The Atlantic — When Should Hacking Be Legal?
USA Today — ‘Three Black Teenagers’ Google Search Sparks Outrage
Forbes — ACLU Files Lawsuit On Behalf of Researchers And Journalists Seeking To Uncover Discrimination Online
Fusion — Testing whether the web is discriminating against you shouldn’t be a crime
ColorLines — ACLU, Researchers and Journalists Sue to Legally Investigate Algorithm-Based Discrimination
The Verge — New ACLU lawsuit takes on the internet’s most hated hacking law
The Intercept — Facebook Outreach Tool Ignores Black Lives Matter
Ars Technica — To Study Possibly Racist Algorithms, Researchers Have to Sue the US
TechCrunch — ACLU challenges federal hacking law hampering research into online discrimination
Data Skeptic — Detecting Terrorists With Facial Recognition (podcast)
Wired — Researchers Sue Government Over Hacking Law
The Guardian — Angry About Facebook Censorship?
The Boston Globe — When Software Doesn’t Play Fair
Computerworld — Algorithms and Experiments Make Strange Bedfellows at SXSW
The New York Times — Facebook Use Polarizing? Site Begs to Differ
The Washington Post — If you use Facebook to get your news, please — for the love of democracy — read this first
NPR (All Things Considered) — Can Computers Be Racist?
The Atlantic — The Internet That Was (and Still Could Be)
BBC — The Future of Artificial Intelligence
ABC (Australia) — We’re All Data Now (also rebroadcast by RTE [Ireland], CBC [Canada])
Le Monde — Le big data des banques sous l’oeil des régulateurs européens
Time — Facebook Study Says Users Make Their News Feed Less Diverse
Slate — The Dangers of Letting Algorithms Enforce Policy
The Nation — 5 Ways to Take Back Tech
Fortune — Facebook “Filter Bubble” Study Raises More Questions Than It Answers
USA Today — Does Facebook Contribute to a Political Echo Chamber?
MIT Technology Review — Facebook’s Filter Study Raises Questions About Transparency
KREM — ‘Three black teenagers’ Google search sparks outrage
Wired — Humans Are Tech’s Next Big Thing, And That Could Be Risky
Wired — Facebook’s Echo Chamber Isn’t Facebook’s Fault, Says Facebook
Wired — 21 Must-Follow Feeds in the World of Business
Wired — What Facebook’s “It’s Not Our Fault” Study Really Means
Data Skeptic (podcast) — Auditing Algorithms
Huffington Post — Facebook Study Says Users Control What They See, But Critics Disagree
TechCrunch — Artificial Intelligence and Racism
Reuters — Algorithms: Based On Your Preferences, You May Also Enjoy This Column
The Theory of Everything (podcast) — Enchanting By Numbers (this 2014 story was revised and re-released due to high ratings)
IT World — Banks’ Use of Big Data To Be Scrutinized By EU
C&G Newspapers — U of M Presses Play On Video Games
Christian Science Monitor — Is Facebook Reinforcing Your Political Bias?
EnGadget — Facebook: If Your Feed Is An Echo Chamber, You Need More Friends
Stuff (New Zealand) — How algorithms are making our lives more boring
CIO Magazine — Why Legal Experts Are Up In Arms Over the Trade Secrets Bill Microsoft Loves
Ars Technica — Don’t (Just) Blame Facebook, We Build Our Own Filter Bubbles
Pennsylvania State University — Scholar To Address Threats Of Social Media Algorithms 
University of Michigan — Michigan Research Community Spring Symposium
UMSI News — Faculty Receive Promotions
The Michigan Daily — Op-Ed: An Anti-Intolerance Statement
Siol (Slovenia) Zakaj naj ne bo Facebook vaš prvi vir novic
Profil (Austria) Gefilterte Information: Wie Facebook widersprüchliche Meinungen aussortiert
der Freitag (Germany) Die Filterblase gibt es, aber wer ist schuld?
Il Foglio (Italy) L’algoritmo di Facebook non genera bolle ideologiche. Uno studio e alcuni dubbi
Nexo Jornal (Brazil) O que acontece quando você só vê opiniões parecidas com as suas
Zero Hora (Brazil) Algoritmo ou escolhas pessoais: o que constrói as timelines do Facebook?
Estadao (Brazil) ‘Algoritmo evita sobrecarga de informação’
Estadao (Brazil) Saiba como os algoritmos das redes sociais podem mudar a política
Exame (Brazil) Redes sociais ajudam a formar ‘bolhas políticas’
Canaltech (Brazil) Algoritmos de redes sociais formam “bolha política” em torno dos usuários
Entretanto Magazine (Spain) Twitter el chismoso: tres de cada cuatro tuits son mentiras
El Confidencial (Spain) No te creas todo lo que lees en Twitter: la cuarta parte es mentira
New Scientist (UK) — No One In Control: The Algorithms That Run Our Lives (cover story)
New Scientist (UK) — The Secret System Controlling The Facebook News Feed
Fortune — How Do You Govern A (Hidden, Fluid, Amoral) Algorithm?
Real Future — Algorithms From The Outside
Pando — These Researchers Are Studying Facebook’s News Feed To Make Algorithms More Accountable
Fusion — Most Facebook Users Still Don’t Know That Their News Feeds Are Filtered By An Algorithm
The Washington Post — What you don’t know about Internet algorithms is hurting you. (And you probably don’t know very much!)
The Washington Post — OkCupid Reveals It’s Been Lying To Some Of Its Users. Just To See What’ll Happen.
Quartz — Facebook’s “Proof” That It’s Not A Political Echo Chamber Should Be Taken With A Pinch Of Salt
Business Insider — Facebook conducted a study to see if people’s news feeds showed them opposing viewpoints — and the results are not encouraging
Pando — Facebook thinks you’re too dumb to realize its scientific papers are really just PR
Fast Company — Why Scientists Are Upset About The Facebook Filter Bubble Study
International Business Times — How Algorithms Subtly Control What We Read, Hear, Watch And (Ultimately) Think
The Chronicle of Higher Education — Big-Data Scientists Face Ethical Challenges After Facebook Study
The Theory of Everything (podcast) — Enchanting By Numbers
CBC (Spark) (Canada) — Algorithm Awareness
The Huffington Post — Facebook Faces UK Probe Over ‘Unethical’ Emotion Study
Computerworld — Mood Experiment Helps Facebook Innovate a New Way to Creep Out Users
Vice — How to/Why Leave Facebook
Vox — Facebook Tried To Manipulate Users’ Emotions. But We Have No Idea If It Succeeded.
News.Com.Au (Australia) — Facebook Manipulated Feeds of Users
Ziuaveche (Romania) Facebook controlează ce postări vei vedea pe propria ta pagină
Observatorio da Imprensa (Brazil) Os segredos por trás dos algoritmos do Facebook
Le Vif (Belgium) Cette appli révèle ce que Facebook ne nous montre pas
DeMorgen (Belgium) Dit is wat Facebook u niét toont
(Press mentions earlier than 2014 omitted.)