The Book on Mitt When John McCain endorsed Mitt Romney just before the New Hampshire primary, there was some tittering about all the nasty things the Senator from Arizona said about his former rival during the 2008 Republican nominating contestâlike when he called Mr. Romney a âphonyâ in an ad. That was a little embarrassing, especially since the John […]
No, Facebook Is Not Secretly Listening to You Last year, Kashmir Hill (now doing investigative work here at The New York Times) wrote about an academic study at Northeastern University that looked for “unexpected activity” transmitted from smartphones — in other words, an audio file secretly broadcast to Facebook or its advertisers.
The Next Web Facebook advertisers can target you with data you didn’t even list on your profile Facebook is sharing personally identifying information that you never submitted to the social network with its advertisers – and you can’t erase it from their records. That’s from a paper published by researchers at Northeastern University and Princeton University, who looked into how ad targeting works on Facebook.
Science Magazine Death can strengthen social networks for years after the event, Facebook study reveals “What is surprising is that it lasts so long,” says William Hobbs, a social scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, who conducted the work at the University of California, San Diego, in collaboration with Moira Burke, a data scientist at Facebook. Not all deaths were the same. Postdeath interactions were more frequent after cancer and […]
NBC News Cleveland Facebook killing suspect likely sought ‘attention’: Criminologists The seemingly irrational decision to broadcast footage of himself committing a heinous crime lines up with a familiar psychological profile, said James Alan Fox, a well-known criminologist who teaches at Northeastern University and has consulted on major murder investigations. “There are offenders who feel proud of their crimes, their conquests — and oftentimes they’re people […]
Pacific Standard From ‘Facebook Revolution’ to ‘Twitter Jihad’ On December 17, 2010, a 26-year-old vegetable vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi lit himself on fire in front of a provincial government building in Tunisia. It was a bold, dramatic act of defiance, and it touched off cascading protests across the country and region. Since those early days of the Jasmine Revolution and the swift exiling of […]
Zuckerberg agrees to congressional testimony Woodrow Hartzog, a professor at Northeastern University Law School, discusses Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s agreement to appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee about the company’s data usage policies. He speaks with Bloomberg’s June Grasso.
WGBH Won’t get fooled again: Why the pundits didn’t swoon over Trump’s speech A strong whiff of won’t-get-fooled again permeated much of the post-speech analysis. Last year, Trump’s first joint address to Congress was greeted by rapturous reviews. According to Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury,” First Son-in-Law Jared Kushner saw it as “a total reset.” Perhaps no one was more smitten that night than Van Jones, a liberal commentator […]
Phoenix serial killings suspect: ‘I’m innocent’ Police say Saucedo killed nine people and carried out 12 shootings from August 2015 to July 2016, gunning down victims after dark as they stood outside their homes or sat in their cars. Most of the killings were in a diverse, mostly Latino neighborhood. Jack Levin, a retired professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern […]
The Providence Journal Official: Victim didn’t know 14-year-old school shooter Such shootings are rarely carried out by females, according to Jack Levin, co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University. Levin noted that more than 95 percent of fatal school shootings are committed by males. “And if you look only at the shooters who are students at the school at the […]
Why the FBI report that mass shootings are up can be misleading Seventy percent of the incidents identified occurred either inside a business or an educational environment, like a public school or a college campus. Sixty percent were over by the time police arrived, all but two involved a single shooter, and in 40% of them, the shooters committed suicide. But at least two prominent criminologists have […]
Crossing the Lines Dividing the Races But to the literary scholar Carla Kaplan, Josephine — who committed suicide in 1969 — deserves to be remembered not just as the stage mother from hell she is usually depicted as, but as a bold if sometimes awkward pioneer at the frontiers of American thinking about racial identity. “She pushed the boundaries of the […]