Despite growing evidence that exposure to and engagement with disinformation narrowly defined on the basis of identified problematic domains is a very small part of most people’s media use, concentrated among partisans actively seeking it out, and often primarily consumed by people who consume far more news from established outlets, survey research suggests very widespread concern over disinformation, especially online.
One survey conducted in 2020 asked respondents across 40 media markets whether, thinking about online news, they were concerned about what is real and what is fake on the internet. 56% of respondents across these markets were ‘very’ or ‘extremely’ concerned about this, ranging from a low 32% in the Netherlands to a high 84% in Brazil.
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Book Review: The Many Lives of Data in India
The book Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India , edited by Sandeep Mertia, delivers a fantastic range of meditations on how data lives, and how we, as individuals and collectives, are shaped by it.
File photo of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) collecting data from a citizen for Aadhar. Photo: Reuters.
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About a decade ago, the CEO of a data analytics firm I worked for in Bangalore vied for the data that would be produced by Aadhaar as it was expected to connect to a series of other datasets that practically governed our life. His repeated request to the representatives of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), at a presentation which the latter made on the companyâs premises, was simply to hand over the data to him. For a company whose main line of work was to interpret data for âintelligenceâ, which is to mine data for pointers on how to prolife
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The growing role of technology in banking cannot be overstated. Financial technology is reshaping the retail banking industry in real time changing the way banks receive deposits, lend money, and invest. At the same time, a determined effort to innovate the supervisory relationship banks have with their regulators is gathering steam. In particular, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is working to encourage technological innovation in financial reporting as a way to promote community banking, reduce compliance burdens, and modernize supervision. This effort promises to remake the way banks report, analyze, and use financial data in the supervisory context. Institutions that are poised to accept and use this technology can expect to reap significant benefits.