Day archives: October 29th, 2024

Threatening ‘the enemy within’ with force: Military ethicists explain the danger to important American traditions

Marcus Hedahl, Professor of Philosophy, United States Naval Academy and Bradley Jay Strawser, Professor of Philosophy, Naval Postgraduate School worry that Trump’s actions while president, and his comments about his plans for a potential second term, may put the military in a tough position. The July 1, 2024, Supreme Court ruling giving the president immunity for official acts – potentially including as commander in chief of the military – would make that tough position even more difficult.

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Subjects: Civil Liberties, Election Law, Leadership, Legal Research, United States Law

How foreign operations are manipulating social media to influence your views

Filippo Menczer and his colleagues study influence campaigns and design technical solutions – algorithms – to detect and counter them. State-of-the-art methods developed in our center use several indicators of this type of online activity, which researchers call inauthentic coordinated behavior. They identify clusters of social media accounts that post in a synchronized fashion, amplify the same groups of users, share identical sets of links, images or hashtags, or perform suspiciously similar sequences of actions.

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Subjects: AI, Competitive Intelligence, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

How your online world could change if big tech companies like Google are forced to break up

The Department of Justice may be on the verge of seeking a break-up of Google in a bid to make it less dominant. Renaud Foucart explains that if the government goes ahead and is successful in the courts, it could mean the company being split into separate entities – a search engine, an advertising company, a video website, a mapping app – which would not be allowed to share data with each other.

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Subjects: E-Commerce, Legal Research, Search Engines, United States Law
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