Despite an increasingly challenging economic and geopolitical environment, the global economy performed better than expected over the past year. But although analysts’ projections for 2023 were too pessimistic, it appears that consensus forecasts for the coming year may have have swung too far in the opposite direction.
worries that domestic political divisions and market volatility could exacerbate financial vulnerabilities.
If COP28 is to be judged a success, the UAE, as the summit’s host, and other hydrocarbon producers should promise to dedicate some of the windfall oil and gas profits they earned last year to accelerating the green transition in the Global South. Doing so could encourage historic and current emitters to pay their fair share.
urges oil-exporting countries to kickstart a program of green investment in the Global South at COP28.
发自剑桥——全球数十亿人不仅时常紧盯着自己的手机,而且他们所消费的信息也发生了巨大的变化——但并不是向好的方向发展。在Facebook这类主流社交媒体平台上,研究人员发现虚假信息要比包含准确信息的类似内容传播得更快更广。尽管用户并不想要错误的信息,但决定人们看到什么的算法往往倾向于呈现那些耸人听闻、不准确和误导性的内容,因为这样才能激发“参与”并因此产生广告收入。
正如互联网活动家伊莱·帕里泽(Eli Pariser)在2011年指出的那样,Facebook还会产生过滤泡沫,让人们更可能看到那些强化他们原有意识形态倾向和确信自身偏见的内容。而最近一项研究则表明这一过程对用户看到的信息类型存在很大影响。
即使抛开Facebook的算法选择,更广大的社交媒体生态系统也允许人们找到符合他们兴趣的子社区。这未必是件坏事,它意味着就算你是你所在社区中唯一对鸟类学感兴趣的人,你也不会再感到孤独了,因为现在可以与世界各地的鸟类学爱好者交流。但这当然也适用于那些独来独往的极端分子,他们现在可以利用同样的平台去获取或传播仇恨言论和阴谋论。
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