The internet and social media carry vast amounts of new information every second. To make these flows manageable, platforms engage in content moderation, using algorithms humans to decide which recommend remove. These decisions have profound effects on our elections, democratic debate, human well-being. U.S. government cannot directly regulate due the scale First Amendment. Rather than focusing...

The ability of defining privacy preferences in the current social platforms is very restricted. Typically, the user is provided with only some predefined options to select from. Semantic Web policies can be exploited in order to allow users to control privacy in social web applications. Such policies are generally considered statements that define the behavior of a system. However, although Sem...

While the horror of the Nazi medical experiments has been unanimously acknowledged, debate continues over whether results of those experiments which are scientifically sound should be used and cited in publications and, by extension, over whether any ethically-suspect research should be cited or published. The author consulted persons in such diverse disciplines as medical journalism, Holocaus...

This article traces significant moments in the history of the magazine Saúde em Debate - sourcing references and information from documents, historical studies, editions of the magazine, academic work and interviews with physicians and writers who contributed to its creation. In its 39 years of existence, although there may have been variations in the magazine's editorial policy, its role as a ...