It’s too late to stop QAnon with fact checks and account bans

This AI hiring firm says it can predict job hopping based on your interviews

Sponsored by MIT Sloan School of Management The Download Your daily dose of what’s up in emerging technology 07.27.20 Good morning! Hello, I'm Niall, and I'll be doing my best to fill Charlotte's shoes while she's away this week. Today, we're getting into the murky world of QAnon and lesser-known effects of AI hiring tools. If they don't already (what!?) get your friends to sign up here to get The Download every day. It’s too late to stop QAnon with fact checks and account bans What—or who—is QAnon? QAnon was born in late 2017 with a series of mysterious posts on 4chan. The posts attracted followers who spend their time interpreting these messages and leading campaigns to make the messages more visible. Some QAnon adherents have led coordinated harassment campaigns against journalists, rival online communities, celebrities, and liberal politicians. QAnon accounts were instrumental in spreading a bogus human-trafficking conspiracy theory about the furniture marketplace Wayfair. And there have been multiple incidents of real-life violence linked to QAnon supporters.  What are Twitter and Facebook doing? Twitter took a step aimed at limiting how successful QAnon can be there, including taking down about 7,000 accounts that promote the conspiracy. Facebook is said to be planning to “take similar steps to limit the reach of QAnon content on its platform” next month, the New York Times reported. What more can they do? It’s too late to stop QAnon completely, but Facebook should still educate users not just on how to spot misinformation, but also on how to understand when they are being manipulated by coordinated campaigns. Platforms must also stop people from descending into algorithmic or recommendation tunnels related to QAnon. Read the full story. —Abby Ohlheiser   Read next: If America’s politicians really care about the damage online platforms can do, they should look at online conspiracy theories—and how they’re made worse by the design of social media sites, says Joan Donavan. Also: We talked to Redditors about how to talk to conspiracy theorists in your family—while still being kind. An AI hiring firm says it can predict job hopping based on your interviews Rise of AI hiring: Since the onset of the pandemic, a growing number of companies have turned to AI to assist with their hiring. The makers themselves argue that algorithmic hiring helps correct for human biases, but experts warn that these screening tools can perpetuate discrimination. That’s not all: But AI tools can threaten workers rights, too. One firm, PredictiveHire, offers employers a chatbot that asks candidates a series of open-ended questions. It then analyzes their responses to assess job-related personality traits like “drive,” and “resilience.” Now it is building a new machine-learning model that seeks to predict a candidate’s likelihood of job hopping, the practice of changing jobs more frequently than an employer desires.  No surprise: The use of AI in this way is simply a modern manifestation of what employers have historically done to suppress wages. But these tools could still work if they were forced to be more transparent. Read the full story here.  —Karen Hao Coming Soon: In Machines We Trust, a brand new podcast on AI At MIT Technology Review, we go big on covering artificial intelligence, from cutting edge research to algorithmic bias to the culture of the companies building the technology. Now, on August 12, we’re going one step further. We’re launching In Machines We Trust, a podcast about the automation of everything. We invite you to join our host and reporter Jennifer Strong as she takes you inside the dazzling possibilities and dangers of AI. Along the way, you’ll hear from doctors, lawyers, and people from all walks of life who find themselves on the forefront of AI. You’ll meet a man who was wrongfully arrested because of face recognition and the police officers that deploy it. This isn’t the future—AI is already making some of the most important decisions in our lives. You can listen to the trailer and subscribe via your favorite podcast players here. Take a stand We can still have nice things A place for comfort, fun and distraction in these weird times. (Got any ideas? Drop me a line or tweet 'em at me.) + You can now boot up a Windows 95 PC in Minecraft and play Doom. + How to outrun a dinosaur. + Is this the best way to make roast chicken? + A Tesla designer has re-engineered the chocolate chip. + The beauty of light diffracting through hummingbird wings. 🌈 + This 4-year-old is going to publish his first poetry collection. + Dame Olivia De Havilland has died, aged 104. Here’s her getting her lines wrong and cursing. + A little flip book dude does viral TikTok dances. Sponsor Message People Analytics, Explained Done right, analytics let you keep your organization strong, even in times of change. MIT Sloan experts lay out four simple steps to talent analytics success. Get talent analytics right. Take a stand The top ten must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Why it’s time for a vaccine reality check So much hope is riding on a breakthrough, but a vaccine is only the beginning of the end. (Atlantic)   + These are the four that are closest to reality. (Wired UK) 2 Why carbon border taxes are unjust It’s hypocritical for developed countries to punish developing countries for carbon emissions. (TR) 3 How a Chinese agent used LinkedIn to hunt for targets Self-promotion is a weakness that can be targeted. (BBC) 4 Baseball’s virtual fans are freaking people out The tech is impressive but the effect is… unnerving. (Verge)   + The NBA is going to use Microsoft Teams to let fans sit courtside. (Gizmodo) 5 India might be planning to ban 275 more Chinese apps It follows the banning of 59 apps, including TikTok, last month. (TheNextWeb)   + WeChat has cut its service in India amid rising tensions. (SCMP) 6 A recent Twitter hack probably didn’t scare you. Here’s why it should. So much for the decentralized internet. (Atlantic)   + Here’s how they did it. (audio) (Motherboard)   + Facebook’s plan to fight Russian disinformation in Ukraine has got messy. (NYT) 7 How to hunt for gravitons They're the cornerstone of quantum gravity theories, but practically impossible to observe. (Wired) 8 How mould from Chernobyl could be used to protect Mars colonies The super-fungus is now being tested on the ISS. (New Scientist)   + Is there life on Mars? We might soon find out. (Economist)   + SpaceX satellites are photo-bombing comet Neowise. (CNET) 9 The Cold War bunker that became home to a dark web empire When adolescent-male fantasia and techno-anarchist utopia collide. Oh, and drugs.  (New Yorker) 10 Locust swarms are getting so big we need radar to track them Oh hai, 2020. (OneZero)   Read smarter, not harder. Join a community curious about the future. 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