Hello again from the Open Measures team. We’ve had a busy August, pushing new features to our platform and working on some exciting research. The big news is that our company was acquired by Everbridge, an industry-leading critical event management platform, and we’re very excited about it. You can learn more about that in the announcement we shared yesterday.
Here’s a look back at the research articles we published in August. We’ll keep this one short and sweet.
A Player's Anti-Trans Remarks Kicked Right-Wing Attacks on the WNBA into Overdrive
WNBA player Sophie Cunningham's recent anti-trans comments reignited conservative "culture war" attacks against the league. Open Measures examined how these narratives have evolved in right-wing communities in recent months.
Where Have All the ‘Wizards’ Gone?
As regulators around the world enact laws criminalizing the publication of NCII, it appears 4chan may be shifting its approach to policing such content.
Open Measures Sources: What is Disqus?
Open Measures collects from Disqus, a platform for embedding comment sections used by thousands of online publishers and media outlets. Disqus allows users to create only one account that can comment on many different Disqus-enabled publishers, a feature that allows researchers using Open Measures’ platform to trace a user’s comment history across many different sites.
What We’re Reading:
The rise and fall of Automata (Decoherence Media)
AI-generated Costco employees got over 100 million views on Facebook and Instagram (Indicator)
Subtlefakes: Slightly Altered Nonconsensual AI Images Are Taking Over X (404 Media)
Paid actors, AI writing: How a new kind of video business cashed in on America’s divided politics (Semafor)
Before you go…
Open Measures was cited in news articles from NPR and Decoherence Media. Be sure to check those out!
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