POLITICS

For several years now, some social media algorithms, especially Facebook‘s [1], have been the focus of controversy, due to their impact and responsibility in many contemporary socio-cultural phenomena, such as political [2] and ideological polarization, cultural homogenization [3], Fake News [4], Hate Speech [5] and outbreaks of racism and xenophobia. In response to this phenomenon, …

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By: Gabriel E. Levy B. An analysis published by MIT Technology Review, the specialized media of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[1], found that as a consequence of the growth of deepfakes and the improvement of the technologies they use, the biggest risk we will face in the next decade will not be the false news …

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Small picturesque stores offered “National and International Internet Service” in northern Ecuador, while there was a case in Guatemala of a “Chapín” who denounced his Internet provider at the police station, as they promised him that he could communicate worldwide using the service, but he never got a dial tone when he connected the cable …

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