Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance – Page 134

In South Korea, Big Tech’s power struggle with regulators is way ahead of the U.S. | Rest of World

December 14, 2021

South Korea has left hard cash in the dust. The country is a virtually friction-free, digital payments dream, where just a fraction of purchases are done in notes and coins. […]
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Lawyers behind Rohingya Facebook lawsuit call it a reckoning for regulating social media | Rest of World

December 10, 2021

Lawyers representing Rohingya refugees brought a class-action lawsuit against Facebook owner Meta this week, seeking more than $150 billion in damages from the company by claiming that it bears responsibility […]
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European regulation of online disinformation may be a “game changer” in 2022 | Columbia Journalism Review

December 10, 2021

After several years of asking the tech giants to regulate themselves on mis/disinformation and a range of other topics, the European Union is expected to issue new laws by mid […]
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A Standard for Universal Digital Ad Transparency | Knight First Amendment Institute

December 10, 2021

Election meddling and public health misinformation have fueled calls for greater transparency around online advertising on social media platforms. In response, many platforms have begun to make voluntary disclosures about […]
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Ideas: How governments go after protesters using social media | Rest of World

December 9, 2021

Article Start It’s hard to imagine a protest in Latin America and the Caribbean without social media. Protesters use messaging apps, hashtags, and other creative formats to organize, participate in […]
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Tennessee medical board removes virus misinformation policy from website amid GOP pressure | TheHill

December 9, 2021

A Tennessee medical board voted to delete — but not rescind — a COVID-19 vaccine misinformation policy from its website after a state Health Department attorney said a Republican lawmaker […]
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A Limiting Lens: How Vaccine Misinformation Has Influenced Hispanic Conversations Online | First Draft

December 9, 2021

Hispanic people in the United States are nearly twice as likely as non-Hispanic white people to be infected with Covid-19 and 2.3 times as likely to die from it. They […]
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Platform Governance: Trust and Transparency | Yale Law School Information Society Project

December 8, 2021

Civil society and government stakeholders have very low trust in industry, based on repeated violations of the latter’s own promises. Concurrently, information asymmetry is an initial hurdle to both studying […]
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Michigan school shooting shows how violence can transition from online threats to real-world tragedy | The Conversation

December 8, 2021

[…] It is, perhaps, easy to look back at the postings of a mass shooter after the event and highlight the red flags that were potentially missed. But how do […]
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Job Opportunity: Faculty Fellows – Race, Technology, and the State | Data & Society Research Institute

December 8, 2021

Call for 2022-23 Faculty Fellows: Race, Technology, and the State Deadline for applications: December 15, 2021 Data & Society is assembling its eighth class of fellows to join us for […]
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