Essays on Foia

Introduction

Every fiscal quarter, automated writing algorithms produce thousands of corporate earning articles using little more than structured data. Companies such as Automated Insights and Narrative Science can write articles on almost any domain with clean and well-structured data. The machine-written articles have variability, tone, and style, and at times are difficult to differentiate them from human-written articles. The automated writing algorithms offer scale, speed, and labor-saving cost. However, the effects of the compromise on media organizations are nuance and accuracy. Thousands of machine-written and published articles had to be corrected for some kind of error (Diakopoulos). The errors range ...

Over time the amount of different tribes and parties who have controlled and or tried to control Afghanistan have created an environment where control is almost impossible. The lack of a stable central government for so many years has caused a power vacuum where no one central power can effectively control the country due to long-standing rivalries and tribal relationships creating the fractured state that we see today. Tribal rivalries and feuds are one of the main reasons for the power vacuum and lack of a central government that exists in Afghanistan today. Afghan tribes have been conflicting with ...

Federal, State, and Local Governments Communication

Communication among the different levels of government is important for the running of a country. In the United States of America, communication flows from the federal government to the state and the local governments. Information from the federal government follows regulations given under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Enacted in 1966, the law provides that any level of government or person has the right to accessing information from federal agencies. The federal government is therefore required to provide records to the state and local governments upon receiving information in written form. However, the federal government reserves the rights to ...