New @nature: Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing
nature.com/articles/s4158… (open access!)

Our key findings:
-Median FB user gets 50.4% of content from like-minded sources
-But reducing exposure by ~1/3 for 3 months had no measurable effect on attitudes

Would ID cards be such a bad idea if they made things work a bit better? | Martha Gill theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Helen Margetts Oxford Internet Institute The Alan Turing Institute Turing Public Policy

Can synthetic data help to keep people safe online?
turing.ac.uk/blog/can-synth…
✍️ Dr Shyam Krishna, Pica Johansson Jonathan Bright 🇺🇦 via The Alan Turing Institute
👆Click on the post to check out the full report
📸Source: The Alan Turing Institute
#AI #SyntheticData #OnLineSafety #Ethics #Innovation …

All this talk of the Princess of Wales editing royal photos has made me question whether the queen really did meet Paddington.
What if she wasn't even there?
#PhotoGate #photoshop

Lee Rigby's widow calls on politicians to stop fuelling anti-Muslim hate mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

❓ How can the tech ecosystem ensure women have an equal place in #AI venture capital?

📺 Catch up w/ Turing Public Policy's Women in Data Science & AI team project leads @JWajcman1 & Dr Erin Lorelie Young on diversity in AI VC: youtube.com/watch?v=IMNvTz…

🧵1/2 #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2024

'I am in the world to change the world'
- Käthe Kollwitz #InternationalWomensDay

📰AI could accelerate a scientific revolution, said experts at a House of Lords event last week w/ Nicola Blackwood, Jonathan Camrose, Met Office Science Stephen Belcher, University of Oxford Lionel Tarassenko & the Turing’s Jean Innes, Helen Margetts & Andrew Duncan:bit.ly/3SXb5SW

Looking forward to this International Women's Day event, featuring Prof Helen Margetts Oxford Internet Institute on the expert panel hosted by VC Prof Irene Tracey. This is an inclusive event championing change for current and future generations of women. Register today: tinyurl.com/yc5pj6nx

I was delighted to join 🇪🇺MEP Axel Voss MdEP, 🇬🇧 AI Minister Jonathan Camrose, Professor Helen Margetts and Centre_InfoPolicy President, who discussed developments in #AI regulation in the UK and EU, and the importance of international collaboration in this field.

Excited for the upcoming University of Oxford Vice Chancellor event celebrating #InternationalWomensDay featuring some fantastic expert panellists including Helen Margetts Oxford Internet Institute. Wednesday 6 March 14.00-16.00 GMT Registration details below.
x.com/UniofOxford/st…

Listening to the charts & we desperately need more science in pop lyrics.
'Time is passing like a solar eclipse'. Passes same as any other time.
'Loving you is in my DNA'. No it isn't.
'If heaven had a phone line...' Don't even get me started...

Look at the difference between Con and Lab priorities. Failure of stop the boats in one chart. Imm isn’t even in the top 5 issues for Lab voters - with Lab on near 50%. But imm is now the top issue for the shriveled 25% rump Tory electorate.

Speaking to James Titcomb The Telegraph about the challenges of Britain’s legacy IT systems and the AI race, Helen Margetts Oxford Internet Institute The Alan Turing Institute said: “It makes it difficult for agencies to innovate when you’re operating from a very old system that doesn’t generate data.”

Happening later today! Prof Helen Margetts Oxford Internet Institute is a panel member at the 'Towards Effective Regulation: AI, Misinformation, and Democratic Challenges' event in Oxford and online. Find out more here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/towards-effe…
#AI #misinformation

This photo cannot convey just how cold it was by the river this morning!

It was a good discussion, thank you for convening.

The US election really mustn't be covered like a run-of-the-mill contest. It is about whether American democracy survives.