In four new studies, researchers found complicated results from experiments on Facebook’s and Instagram’s algorithms, suggesting there was no silver bullet to fixing the platforms.
Elizabeth Tsurkov, the Russian-Israeli researcher who has been kidnapped in Iraq, took risks in pursuit of knowledge, understanding and doing what she felt was right.
Martin Sherwin struck the deal and dove into the research. But it was only when Kai Bird joined as a collaborator that “American Prometheus” came to be.
Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli researcher, was seized in late March by an Iraqi Shiite group shortly after leaving a Baghdad cafe, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.