For six years I had the responsibility of running Politwoops, the @ProPublica site that tracked deleted tweets from politicians.

Today I published its eulogy. Gonna miss this news app that was revealing& silly at the same time:

https://www.propublica.org/article/politwoops-deleted-tweets-twitter-politicians-musk

Advocates & policymakers have proposed Algorithm Impact Assessments as a technique for managing the risks of AI. What might those look like in practice?

Lucas Wright led a team last year to do mock impact assessments based on two algorithms that caused significant harms. Here's what they learned.

https://citizensandtech.org/2023/02/how-can-impact-assessments-effectively-regulate-social-harms-of-algorithms/

Does anyone on here work on the Twitter API or know someone who does? Because it looks like with recent Twitter API changes, @ProPublica can't track deleted tweets from politicians anymore w/ Politwoops -- https://projects.propublica.org/politwoops/

The API we used for years has been deprecated, and the v2 API simply...does not seem to report deletions correctly. The new method to ingest tweets also seems very limited. And I'm not sure we actually understand what the paid model would be!

"When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women. That's the main conclusion of a new study that compiled information about 20,860 pictures drawn by students age 5 to 18 over 5 decades."

https://www.science.org/content/article/what-does-scientist-look-children-are-drawing-women-more-ever #science @psychology @sociology

Free open access (download pdf) book by Kathleen Searles, Yanna Krupnikov, John Ryan and Hillary Style.

Constructing Political Expertise in the News

🚨 FREE ACCESS ENDS FEBRUARY 17🚨

#polcomm #commodon #journodon #openaccess #openscience
@communicationscholars @politicalscience

https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/constructing-political-expertise-in-the-news/FD426A970FA263A18749729B5E4642C7