In the wake of the assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trump’s personal account, and Google, Apple and Amazon shunned Parler, which at least temporarily shut down the social media platform favored by the far right. Dubbed “deplatforming”, these actions restrict the ability of individuals and communities to communicate with each other and the public. […]

Author Archives: Ugochukwu Etudo
Dr. Etudo’s research focuses on the application of ontology and knowledge engineering towards the provision of solutions to various business and social problems. He has successfully used these techniques to provide several computational solutions to the problem of interoperability in XBRL financial statements in the United States. Dr. Etudo also studies machine learning for text analytics focusing on named entity recognition and relation extraction. An applied researcher, he studies how these techniques can be used to track the propagation of organizational messaging on the Web with a special focus on terrorist organizations.