Gabriel Robins | Source | Professor of Computer Science at University of Virginia
Gabriel Robins
Best-in-class computer science scholar in well versed in a range of social media issues, including algorithms and user safety. Award-winning professor, expert witness in big tech lawsuits, and helper to journalists and their audiences trying to make sense of social media.
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University of Virginia (https://www.virginia.edu/)
Professor of Computer Science
started Aug 1992
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What Does a Fact-Check-Free Facebook Mean for Trump’s America? - Washingtonian
"Facebook is preparing to run a very interesting social experiment here," says a University of Virginia expert.
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Is The US Really Going to Ban TikTok? - Washingtonian
Next month, the Supreme Court will decide whether the federal government's potential ban of TikTok violates the First Amendment. Thanks to lawmaker concern over the Chinese government getting access to American user data, those users could lose access to the app as soon as January 19 unless its Chinese-owned parent company, ByteDance, sells to a
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TikTok's use of casino-like virtual currency to allegedly exploit children faces scrutiny in DC lawsuit
The DC attorney general alleges that TikTok operates an alleged "unlicensed virtual currency" as part of its TikTok LIVE feature.
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"If all you know about a user is their zip code, roughly what their age is, which books or products they purchased over the last few years, what news articles they liked or disliked, you can tell almost a shocking amount of information about that user—their health status, their sexual orientation, their political leanings, all sorts of things which are nominally private, simply because the data mining algorithms can find patterns and match it to other known patterns."
