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The FTC Is Closing in on Runaway AI
09/12/22 | Wired
The US regulator is eager to end unfair use of artificial intelligence and commercial surveillance, but experts remain skeptical....
Face the Nation - Tracing the links between the internet and extremism
09/04/22 | CBS news
Jared Holt of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and Karen Kornbluh of the German Marshall Fund discuss the internet's...
Google releases details on how it will combat misinformation in advance of midterm elections
09/01/22 | CNN Business
Google is preparing for a wave of misinformation surrounding the US midterm elections by elevating trustworthy information...
RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine group kicked off Instagram, Facebook
08/18/22 | AP News
Instagram and Facebook suspended Children’s Health Defense this week after the anti-vaccine group led by Robert Kennedy...
Tell Us: Have you received a political campaign leaflet disguised as a local newspaper?
08/05/22 | Columbia Journalism Review
We want to hear if you’ve received something looking like a local newspaper pushing political causes. The US media landscape...
Digital Bridge: Europe’s digital rulebook — RT dodges sanctions — Transatlantic trade deal?
07/20/22 | Digital Bridge from Politico
IT’S SO HOT THIS WEEK, Digital Bridge is coming at you a day early. I’m Mark Scott, POLITICO’s chief technology correspondent,...
The verdict is still out on Europe’s new digital rulebook
07/06/22 | The Washington Post
The verdict is still out on Europe’s new digital rulebook The European Parliament on Tuesday approved the Digital Services...
The Sunday Show: Peering Inside the Platforms
06/26/22 | Tech Policy Press
This episode focuses on how best to create mechanisms for outside scrutiny of technology platforms... And the second segment...
Institute of Politics and Global Affairs Hosts State of Democracy Summit
05/31/22 | The Cornell Daily Sun
The State of Democracy Summit, hosted by The Institute of Politics and Global Affairs at the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School...
Mullaney: U.S., EU aim to avoid ‘collateral damage’ in efforts against NMEs
05/26/22 | Inside U.S. Trade's World Trade Online
The United States and the European Union are working to coordinate efforts to address non-market economy policies and practices...
How Europe and Canada Are Fighting Foreign Political Ads on Social Media
05/17/22 | Council on Foreign Relations
New Facebook data reveals that foreign advertisers may have tried to influence the upcoming Irish referendum on abortion....
A safe, open internet with transatlantic rules is easier than it sounds
05/06/22 | The Hill
The internet is global, but the laws that govern it are local. Putin has lowered a digital iron curtain around Russia to...
Tow Center newsletter: A case study of an Ohio gubernatorial candidate’s use of shady local ‘news’ networks
05/03/22 | Columbia Journalism Review
For four months, two out of every three news articles posted to the official Facebook page of an Ohio gubernatorial hopeful...
Will Elon Musk’s Twitter become a beacon of free speech or a soap box for hate speech?
04/29/22 | Euronews
Elon Musk has called himself a "free speech absolutist," which has alarmed rights groups and researchers who fear that Twitter...
What Musk's free-speech Twitter could unleash
04/28/22 | Axios
Elon Musk's pledge to allow any speech on Twitter that doesn't break the law would open the door to a pandemonium of objectionable...
International Coalition Launches Declaration for the Future of the Internet
04/28/22 | Tech Policy Press
Some ambient noise from one of the international participants on a Zoom call led by the White House this morning briefly...
Elon Musk takes on the world’s regulators, Twitter-style
04/28/22 | GRID
Elon Musk’s pending purchase of Twitter has sent tremors through politics, activism and journalism circles as people try...
Disinfo Dashboard
04/20/22 | Iffy News
A collection of tools that monitor misinformation: Iffy Quotient social media tracker, CoVaxxy tweet chart, NewsWhip top-25...
Obama’s Right, Elon’s Wrong: Democracy Needs to Defend Itself Against Disinformation
04/14/22 | Tech Policy Press
Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter in order to protect free speech and therefore democracy demonstrates a lack of understanding...
Network of pseudo-news websites promotes Jim Renacci’s campaign for Ohio governor
04/01/22 | Cleveland
Scroll through Jim Renacci’s Facebook page, and it won’t take long to see a link to a post that looks like news coverage...
The Ukraine invasion is accelerating Russia’s tech sector brain drain
03/25/22 | GRID
Russian programmers are leaving the country in droves as it grows more isolated in the wake of President Vladimir Putin’s...
Blacklisted by the U.S., pro-Russia accounts have still been posting propaganda on Twitter and YouTube
03/24/22 | The Washington Post
Less than a week after Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, a pro-Russian rebel appeared in a video on YouTube celebrating...
Social media platforms tread carefully when it comes to the Russian government
03/18/22 | CNN Business
As its troops have gotten bogged down in Ukraine, the Russian government has been fueling a conspiracy theory on social media...
LOGGING OFF Russia ‘could split off from global internet’ – and US fears that Russian web could look...
03/16/22 | The Sun
As real war rages in Ukraine, Russia has is pushing ahead with an intense information war online...
“Perfect moderation does not exist,” but here are some lessons from Twitter’s labels of Trump tweets
03/10/22 | NiemanLab
From simple labeling to links to third-party sites for accurate information to outright blocking, social media platforms...
As Russia criminalizes fake news, U.S. lawmakers push to regulate 'harmful content' on social media
03/09/22 | Just the News
The NUDGE Act is a "Tech Trojan Horse" for censorship, using federal agencies to "cloak content modification in pseudo-scientific...
U.S. vs Russia for the future of the internet
03/03/22 | Axios
U.S. officials are stepping up a campaign to defeat a Russian candidate for a UN agency that could determine how much control...
What Trump’s lying tweets teach us about labeling Russian propaganda
03/03/22 | Protocol
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, social media platforms are fighting an avalanche of misinformation and propaganda...
'A moral obligation': Big Tech companies face pressure to take a tougher stance on Russia amid Ukraine invasion
02/27/22 | Alternet
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, Big Tech companies with the world's largest social media platforms, mobile...
These vaccine skeptics are outperforming news outlets on Facebook, Twitter, study finds
02/24/22 | The Washington Post
Two prominent sources of anti-vaccine information drew massive engagement and grew their audiences on Facebook and Twitter...
'Freedom convoys' tap into cross-regional populism
02/16/22 | NPR
The so-called "freedom convoys" are exploiting populist grievances and are amplified by social media and grifters seeking...
Assessing the NUDGE Act
02/14/22 | Tech Policy Press
Last week, Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) introduced the Nudging Users to Drive Good Experiences...
Disinformation, Radicalization, and Algorithmic Amplification: What Steps Can Congress Take?
02/07/22 | Just Security
Facebook’s Algorithm Is Broken. We Collected Some Suggestions On How To Fix It.
11/16/21 | FiveThirtyEight
Facebook’s algorithm is its superpower — and its kryptonite. Yes, it leads to higher engagement that earns the company ...
Senators examine how social media amplifies extremism
10/28/21 | Politico
HOW SOCIAL MEDIA SPREADS EXTREMISM — That’s the issue the Senate Homeland Security Committee will dive into this morning...
Facebook Grilled by Senators Over Its Effect on Children
09/30/21 |
Lawmakers took sharp aim at Facebook on Thursday, harshly questioning one of its executives about Instagram’s effect...
U.S., EU Vow Cooperation on Trade, Technology in Diplomatic First
09/29/21 | Bloomberg
The U.S. and the European Union agreed to work together to shape the rules and standards around crucial technologies and...
The Technology 202: Study finds sites that mislead, not flat-out lie, attract record share of Facebook engagements
08/24/21 | The Washington Post
As overall engagement on Facebook dropped this year, sites that share news misleadingly are attracting a record-level share...
Attacks on Fauci grow more intense, personal and conspiratorial
06/04/21 | Politico
For over a year, Anthony Fauci has been a bogeyman for conservatives, who have questioned his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic...
Digital New Deal Provides Input to EU on Reforms
04/21/21 |
Kornbluh Testifies before European Parliament Special Committee on AI WASHINGTON—Amb. Karen Kornbluh yesterday testified...
New Research Finds Most Text Disclosures for Online Political Ads Largely Ineffective...
03/18/21 |
Users more likely to notice graphic disclosures More emphasis on design effectiveness needed WASHINGTON —Simple...
The Technology 202: How social media helped fuel false claims about Texas power outages
02/23/21 | The Washington Post
Conservatives' false claims that frozen wind turbines caused mass power outages in Texas started with a photo taken out of...
"It was a drug": Capitol riot exposes reach of QAnon disinformation
02/16/21 | CBS News
Democrats this week called for the expulsion of first-term Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia for repeating...
Inside the Making of Facebook’s Supreme Court
02/12/21 | The New Yorker
On a morning in May, 2019, forty-three lawyers, academics, and media experts gathered in the windowless basement of the NoMad...
Podcast Episode: Disinformation (Part 2)
02/09/21 | CBS News | Apple Podcasts
While we were putting this episode together, we quickly realized the vast, convoluted scope of QAnon, its tantalizing effect...
Experts say vaccine misinformation crackdown is coming too late
02/09/21 | Axios
Facebook on Monday became the latest in a run of tech firms and media outlets taking action to stem the tide of COVID-19...
Podcast Episode: Disinformation (Part 1)
02/02/21 | CBS News | Apple Podcasts
If your friend tells you it's going to rain tomorrow, and it turns out to be sunny, that's misinformation. Your friend was...
Opinion: Facebook and Twitter can do something about deceptive news. So why don’t they?
02/01/21 | The Washington Post
IF IT looks like a news site, publishes like a news site and posts like a news site, is it a news site? Don’t count on...
Twitter, Facebook Had Even More Deceptive News in 2020, Study Says
01/28/21 | Bloomberg
Content from discredited websites that masquerade as journalism proliferated on Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. in 2020 despite...
Three steps to help treat America’s debilitating information disorder
01/13/21 | The Washington Post
Updating digital norms would make organizing the next Capitol assault more difficult. After all, this is no longer an online...
‘This is going to come back and bite ’em’: Capitol breach inflames Democrats’ ire at Silicon Valley
01/08/21 | Politico
Congress will "come back with a vengeance" at social media companies for helping foment the riots, top Senate Intelligence...
Why the New Administration Needs Federal Industrial Strategists
12/17/20 | NextGov
As President-elect Joe Biden makes plans for his presidency he is likely to be reminded of the well-worn observation that...
Facebook removes some large health misinformation pages
12/09/20 | NBC
The removal of at least nine pages follows new research from the German Marshall Fund, a nonpartisan public policy think...
Platform Regulation Should Focus on Transparency, Not Content
12/02/20 | Slate
Despite efforts by digital platforms to curb the tsunami of disinformation surrounding U.S. elections, cyberspace remains...
The Biden Administration Should Pursue a Digital Trade Agreement
11/23/20 | Slate
Over the past four years, President Donald Trump has put international trade policy on the front page with regularity—at...
Biden's Day 1 challenges: Misinformation flood control
11/20/20 | Axios
President-elect Joe Biden will enter office with no fast fixes at hand to stem a tide of online misinformation that has shaped...
How Well Did Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Handle Election Misinformation?
11/10/20 | Slate
In the early hours of the Wednesday after Election Day, as President Donald Trump inaccurately claimed victory in several...
The Future of AI, Ethics, and Defense
10/22/20 | The Council on Foreign Relations
Speakers discuss the intersection of technology, defense, and ethics, and the geopolitical competition for the future of...
The German Marshall Fund Defends Report
10/20/20 | The Wall Street Journal
The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is a nonpartisan policy organization committed to the principles of democracy,...
Facebook’s new tool to stop fake news is a game changer—if the company would only use it
10/18/20 | Fortune
When an explosive—and most likely fake—story about Joe Biden's son began to circulate online this week, Facebook did...
On Facebook, Misinformation Is More Popular Now Than in 2016
10/12/20 | The New York Times
During the 2016 presidential election, Russian operatives used Facebook , Instagram, Twitter and other social media platforms...
Disinformation Has Neighbors Fighting in Small-Town America
10/09/20 | Bloomberg Quint
Gary Fiyalko doesn’t wear a mask. Won’t wear one. Gary believes masks are for political sheep. He’s ready for this...
Bulldozing the Public Square
10/08/20 | Democracy Journal
The Breitbart-hosted conspiracy theory video, “America’s Frontline Doctors,” was viewed over a 12-hour period in July...
The Internet’s Lost Promise And How America Can Restore It
09/30/20 | Foreign Affairs
In the United States, Russia sought to help one presidential candidate over another in the 2016 election—not only through...
How Facebook could help plunge our democracy into chaos on Nov. 4
09/29/20 | The Washington Post
In 2016, a key component of Russia’s efforts to help Donald Trump win the White House involved moving disinformation through...
Big tech needs new, powerful government watchdogs to enforce real transparency
09/23/20 | Fast Company
Here’s an unsettling exercise: Imagine if the food manufacturing industry could abandon all transparency. In this world,...
What Can Social Media Do To Slow Down The Spread Of Misinformation?
09/22/20 | NPR
On social media, it's easy for rumors to go viral. One proposal to fix this is a "circuit breaker" for viral posts, modeled...
On TikTok, the Trump Administration Is Adopting China’s Own Vision for the Internet
09/22/20 | NextGov
Over the past seven weeks, the Trump administration has ordered the sale of TikTok to a U.S. buyer, declared that the U.S....
Exclusive: False fire rumors keep spreading on Facebook despite ban
09/16/20 | Axios
Conspiracy theories about the origin of fires in Oregon are still spreading through private Facebook groups days after the...
Could a digital New Deal rewrite tech policy?
09/10/20 | Marketplace
At this point, consumers, tech employees, even the CEOs of some big tech companies say there should be more regulation around...
China Tries to Push U.S. Tech Companies Around in Hong Kong. Here's How to Push Back.
07/17/20 | NBC News
At the same time that China becomes more assertive in clamping down on internet freedom, the U.S. is shooting itself in the...
Watching the watchers: More accountability needed to ensure responsible COVID-19 tracing tech
07/13/20 | The Hill
As governments and employers around the world embrace new technological tools to aid COVID-19 contact-tracing, Congress should...
Facial Recognition Is Here But We Have No Laws
07/08/20 | Next Gov
At protests against police violence across the country, law enforcement authorities have deployed the tanks, tear gas and...
Public Safety and Disinformation
07/01/20 | Georgetown Law Technology Review
Too often, combatting public safety and disinformation on the Internet is presented as a false choice between continuing...
After El Paso killings, renewed focus on online hate forums
08/05/19 | https://news.yahoo.com/el-paso-killings-renewed-focus-online-hate-forums-164915026.html
Efforts to take down the 8chan website where a racist "manifesto" was posted shortly before the El Paso shooting highlight...
Why The Government Should Watch The Web
07/11/19 | NPR Think
The internet has been part of our daily lives for more than two decades. But our approach to policing it is still in its...
Gab’s Islamophobic content draws from YouTube, Twitter, study finds
06/21/19 | CNN Business
The fringe social media site Gab is a well-known home for far-right content, but a new study looks at how Islamophobic posts...
A Global Call to End Online Extremism
05/15/19 | Foreign Policy
Government leaders and tech companies convene to combat violent extremism online, an ongoing curfew amid violence in Sri...
Out of Order - Silent Revolution: The Transatlantic Policy Debate Over Artificial Intelligence
03/19/19 | The German Marshall Fund of the United States
From AI to 5G, the innovations that pose unprecedented opportunities also pose a risk to democracy—and there is no consensus...
The Internet’s Lost Promise And How America Can Restore It
09/12/18 | Foreign Affairs
In the United States, Russia sought to help one presidential candidate over another in the 2016 election—not only through...
Close Social Media Loopholes to Protect Upcoming U.S. Elections
04/25/18 | The Council on Foreign Relations
The 2018 U.S. midterms are less than eight months away, and Congress has done nothing to close loopholes that enable political...
Could Europe's New Data Protection Regulation Curb Online Disinformation?
02/20/18 | The Council on Foreign Relations
European leaders are rushing to implement new laws to curb disinformation on social media. However, existing European data...
Bringing Transparency and Accountability to Online Political Ads
10/30/17 | The Council on Foreign Relations
The internet makes it easy for political ad buyers to obfuscate their donors and handlers. Despite the challenges, there...
