It's the open secret of the modern online copyright system: When it comes to matters of leaving content up or taking it down, algorithms frequently make the most crucial decisions.
A "bug" in Facebook's safety check feature erroneously sent messages to people all around the world after the deadly bombings in Pakistan.
It took mere hours for the Internet to transform Tay, the teenage AI bot who wants to talk to millennials, into Tay, the racist AI bot who refers to Hitler.
The Internet has some experience turning well-meaning bots like Tay to the dark side. Here are some of them.
"Humans seem so awesome," says Tay -- who is not human, herself.
The hashtag only took off when people started criticizing it.
Peach Ball was cool. Facebook took it. Now it’s over.
Despite a decade of scaremongering, there's no evidence that tweets are "rotting" or "rewiring" anything, neuroscientists say.
"I can block people, I've never blocked anyone. I want to see what people are saying," Dorsey said.
If you want to understand how things go viral now, start in the 19th century.
