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Confronting Hate and Extremism in Online Games
On Friday, Congresswoman Lori Trahan, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, led a group of Democrats including Senator Ron Wyden and R…
3 years, 7 months ago
Examining Meta’s Cross-Check Program
A little more than a year ago, in the first article announcing the release of the Facebook Files, the documents brought out of the company by whistle…
3 years, 7 months ago
Chinese Censorship and Surveillance in a Moment of Unrest: Part 2
Last week, the Chinese government under President Xi Jinping took steps to finally move away from its zero-COVID policy, following two weeks of prote…
3 years, 7 months ago
Chinese Censorship and Surveillance in a Moment of Unrest: Part 1
Last week, the Chinese government under President Xi Jinping took steps to finally move away from its zero-COVID policy, following two weeks of prote…
3 years, 7 months ago
Scrutinizing "The Twitter Files"
On Friday, Elon Musk announced via tweet that documents related to Twitter’s decision to intervene in the propagation of an October 2020 story in the…
3 years, 7 months ago
Dissecting Tech Manifestos
For this episode of the Tech Policy Press podcast, I had the chance to speak to Chris Anderson, Ph.D., a professor of sociology at the University of …
3 years, 7 months ago
The Whiteness of Mastodon
By all accounts, Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is not going well. And yet many have the real sense that something important may be lost if the p…
3 years, 7 months ago
You Are Not Expected to Understand This
Today we’re going to hear from the editor of-- and two authors included in-- a book of essays about how particular bits of software have changed the …
3 years, 8 months ago
What is Lost if Twitter Fails?
Media reports suggest that large swathes of employees at Twitter have resigned after the platform’s new owner, Elon Musk, issued a kind of ultimatum …
3 years, 8 months ago
Internet Shutdowns and Censorship, in Iran and Beyond
According to the BBC, to date at least 348 Iranian protesters have been killed and nearly 16,000 arrested in women-led protests that erupted three mo…
3 years, 8 months ago