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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...