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Today, we’re sharing additional steps we’re taking to protect elections and prepare for the US 2020 election. Those steps include strengthening the authorization process for US advertisers, showing people more information about each advertiser and updating our list of social issues in the US to better reflect the public discourse on and off Facebook.
We’ve learned a lot about how to make large-scale collaborations around datasets work, and today we’re giving away all of our secrets.
This article is an effort to provide some deep context for the He Jiankui affair and to begin analyzing it. It focuses on He’s experiment, without delving into the broader ethical issues around ‘human germline genome editing’ in the abstract.
From the Ecological Society of America’s Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: Maintaining the continued flow of benefits from science, as well as societal support for science, requires sustained engagement between the research community and the general public.
Big tech firms are trying to read people’s thoughts, and no one’s ready for the consequences.