Sen. Ron Wyden is ready to send the CEO of Facebook to prison, and he has the bill to do…
Archive
Focus Tag: Accountability
In Congress’s big tech hearing, look beyond ‘technology policy’ | Brookings
by Alex Engler
July 31, 2020
On July 29, the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee will hold a hearing with some of the nation’s top technology CEOs.…
Call For Papers: Conference for Truth and Trust Online
by Truth & Trust Online
July 31, 2020
The modern media ecosystem in which the public seeks truthful information and trustworthy sources is increasingly dominated by large-scale online…
Exposure to social engagement metrics increases vulnerability to misinformation | HKS Misinformation Review
by Mihai Avram, Nicholas Micallef, Sameer Patil, and Filippo Menczer
July 31, 2020
News feeds in virtually all social media platforms include engagement metrics, such as the number of times each post is…
Why Big Tech Is Colliding With Washington | Foreign Policy
by Colm Quinn
July 30, 2020
At noon today in Washington, four of the world’s most powerful tech leaders will testify before a U.S. Congressional committee…
Africa can become a renewable energy superpower – if climate deniers are kept at bay | The Guardian
by Mohamed Adow
July 23, 2020
The power of climate science denial in the UK, thankfully, has been in retreat over the past decade. Nigel Lawson’s…
Facebook’s Decisions Were ‘Setbacks for Civil Rights,’ Audit Finds | The New York Times
by Mike Isaac
July 10, 2020
Auditors handpicked by Facebook to examine its policies said that the company had not done enough to protect people on…
State-sponsored disinformation in Western democracies is the elephant in the room ǀ Euronews
by Sohini Chatterjee and Péter Krekó
July 9, 2020
Discussions on disinformation mostly focus on the external sources of disinformation: Russia and China. If we focus exclusively on disinformation…
Facebook’s Roger Stone Takedown | Graphika
by Graphika Team
July 8, 2020
Facebook Removes Inauthentic Network Attributed to Political Operative On July 8, 2020, Facebook took down a network of 54 Facebook…
Disinformation by Design: How Media Manipulation Campaigns Are Constructed | Oxford Internet Institute
by David Sutcliffe, Peaks Krafft & Joan Donovan
July 7, 2020
Disinformation campaigns such as those perpetrated by far-right groups in the United States seek to erode democratic social institutions. While…