Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance – Page 112

Far-right activists using Twitter new rule against anti-extremist researchers | The Washington Post

December 3, 2021

Neo-Nazis and far-right activists have coached followers on how to abuse a new Twitter rule to force the service to remove photos of them shared by anti-extremism researchers and journalists. […]
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Big Tech ‘Amplification’: What Does That Mean? | The New York Times

December 2, 2021

Lawmakers have spent years investigating how hate speech, misinformation and bullying on social media sites can lead to real-world harm. Increasingly, they have pointed a finger at the algorithms powering […]
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Federal court blocks Texas law banning ‘viewpoint discrimination’ on social media | The Verge

December 2, 2021

A federal judge has blocked a Texas law that aimed to limit large social platforms’ ability to moderate content on the grounds that it is likely to violate the First […]
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Chinese province targets journalists, foreign students with planned new surveillance system | Reuters

December 2, 2021

BEIJING, Nov 29 (Reuters) – Security officials in one of China’s largest provinces have commissioned a surveillance system they say they want to use to track journalists and international students […]
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Lina Khan’s Battle to Rein in Big Tech | The New Yorker

December 2, 2021

In the spring of 2011, a recent Williams College graduate named Lina Khan interviewed for a job at the Open Markets Program, in Washington, D.C. Open Markets, which was part […]
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Digital Media and Democracy: A Systematic Review of Causal and Correlational Evidence Worldwide | SocArXiv

December 1, 2021

One of today’s most controversial and consequential questions is whether the rapid, worldwide uptake of digital media is causally related to a decline in democracy. We conducted a systematic review […]
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On Omicron, uncertainty, vaccine equity, and the media | Columbia Journalism Review

November 30, 2021

Late last week, the world started to hear about a new coronavirus variant that had already started to worry scientists: B.1.1.529, which was first detected in southern Africa earlier this […]
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The thousands of vulnerable people harmed by Facebook and Instagram are lost in Meta’s ‘average user’ data | The Conversation

November 30, 2021

Fall 2021 has been filled with a steady stream of media coverage arguing that Meta’s Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram social media platforms pose a threat to users’ mental health and […]
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Gender, Political Persuasion, and Social Media: A Field Experiment During the 2020 Democratic Primary | Network Science Institute

November 29, 2021

Research indicates women have less influence than men in a variety of professional settings, including politics. We conducted a field experiment on a social media platform where Democrats were randomly […]
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The Interplay of Technology, Ethics, and Policy | Network Science Institute

November 29, 2021

This talk will be hybrid in-person and via Zoom. Register in advance here for this meeting using your institutional email address. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing […]
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