Cecilia Kang
| An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination
Oct 27, 2021, 8:30 pm -
10:30 pm,
Felix Meritis, Keizersgracht 324, Amsterdam
For years, fringe ideologues were able to use Facebook undisturbed to promote their extreme ideologies and conspiracies. In An Ugly Truth, published in Dutch as De smerige waarheid by Atlas
Contact, New York Times tech reporters Cecilia Kang and Sheera Frenkel reveal how Facebookâs algorithms sacrificed everything for user engagement and profit, while creating a misinformation epicenter and violating the privacy of its users.
Through deep investigatory work, Kang and Frenkel ...
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Contact, New York Times tech reporters Cecilia Kang and Sheera Frenkel reveal how Facebookâs algorithms sacrificed everything for user engagement and profit, while creating a misinformation epicenter and violating the privacy of its users.
Through deep investigatory work, Kang and Frenkel ... Read more
The Accessible City
| Online event with Chris & Melissa Bruntlett
Nov 16, 2021, 8:00 pm -
9:15 pm,
Online Event (free)
What was it about life in the Netherlands that Canadian couple Chris and Melissa Bruntlett found so attractive? So attractive that they pulled up stakes and left Vancouver to actually move to Delft with their two children? The answer is: quality of life.
A big factor that impacts quality of life is how we move around the city. In North America ...
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A big factor that impacts quality of life is how we move around the city. In North America ... Read more