Union Leader: Another View -- Dr. Hany Farid: Are universities fueling Silicon Valley crisis?

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Dartmouth College Computer Science Professor and CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid writes: Universities across the country are graduating record numbers of computer scientists, many of whom are finding employment in Silicon Valley. At the same time, we are seeing alarming failures of corporate responsibility on the part of the largest Silicon Valley companies. What role do we in the academy have in fueling the crisis in Silicon Valley and what can we do about it? Silicon Valley companies have allowed their platforms to be used for a range of troubling activities, from child exploitation to child sex trade, revenge porn, radicalization and recruitment of extremists, fake news, trolling, bullying, and election tampering.

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February 8, 2018
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