Description

Started from a college dormroom, now Facebook is one of the most rich and powerful companies in the world, with all the consequences and problems that come with it. In recent months, Facebook has been under scrutiny for privacy issues and the spred of fake news, hate speech and rightist propaganda. Zuckerberg's social network has a big ethic dilemma. Will Artificial Intelligence fix it?

Type of learning path

sequence

Path nodes

1. • The Facebook Dilemma: an introduction
2. • The documentary by Frontline
3. • When it all began: 2004-2005, the "Annus Mirabilis" of Facebook
4. • A quest for growth
5. • How Newsfeed and Edge Rank works
6. • Filter Bubble and Echochamber theories
7. • The next step: targeting the whole world of the consumer
8. • Facebook: a Wall Street story
9. • Even a small business can target ads on Facebook
10. • How Facebook was misused
11. • How Facebook's data sharing went from feature to bug
12. • With great power comes great responsibility: sharing data with Cambridge Analytica
13. • The whistleblower
14. • Disrupting democracy with Facebook: a capital sin
15. • Russian meddling in elections: a Nato report
16. • Zuckerberg testifies in court for the Cambridge Analytica data breach and Russian interference
17. • Ex Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes says it's time to break up
18. • Humans who dig deep into Facebook rubbish
19. • Could Facebook use AI to fix itself?
20. • What is Artificial Intelligence?
21. • Facebook AI: achievements and challenges
22. • Limits of Artificial Intelligence
23. • Failures, an example
24. • The Christchurch shooting
25. • What's in store for the future? The "Selfsupervised learning"
26. • Report: the use of AI in online content moderation
27. • A proposal: Ofcom reports key findings

Submitted by Tommaso Meo
20/09/2019
in the project Facebook dilemma and the Artificial Intelligence proposed solutions.

last updated 27/09/2019