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  • 2023 Landscape Confronting Tech Power | AI Now Institute

    April 12, 2023

    This report highlights a set of approaches that, in concert, will collectively enable us to confront tech power. Some of these are bold policy reforms that underscore the need for […]

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  • Image-Based Abuse: A Threat to Privacy, Safety, and Speech

    March 15, 2023

    Commonly misnamed “revenge porn,” image-based abuse is the non-consensual creation and distribution of private images. Much more than “one-off” attacks that cause hurt feelings, image-based abuse has become a broad effort to silence and shame people in public spaces. This literature review brings together relevant research from the fields of law, communication, psychology, and public health to explain how image-based abuse has become an ever-present threat to privacy, safety, and speech.

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  • #OscarsSoWhite: The Growth of a Racial Justice Movement | Media Manipulation Casebook

    March 14, 2023

    The “Oscars So White” social media campaign is an ongoing movement started by activist April Reign to critique Hollywood’s racial discrimination. Reign launched the hashtag and viral slogan in 2015 […]

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  • Tech & Democracy report | All Tech Is Human

    March 7, 2023

    All Tech Is Human’s Tech & Democracy report addresses key issues and best practices in the field, and highlights a diverse range of individuals working in the field (across civil society, […]

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    February 8, 2023
  • Deana A. Rohlinger

    February 8, 2023

    Deana A. Rohlinger is a Professor of Sociology, Director of Research for the Institute of Politics, a research associate in the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy, and an […]

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  • GWU IDDP: Nina Hall in Conversation with Dave Karpf

    February 1, 2023

    On Thursday, February 16 at 11am ET Dave Karpf will be in conversation with Nina Hall about her recent book Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era. In her book Nina does what no […]

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  • The Defunders | Intelligencer, New York Magazine

    September 6, 2022

    “We got Yahoo to kill their Glenn Beck ads,” Nandini Jammi announced during a private video call in February with two colleagues from the group Check My Ads and 20-odd […]

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  • Private security groups regularly sent Minnesota police misinformation about protestors | MIT Technology Review

    July 7, 2022

    When US marshals shot and killed a 32-year-old Black man named Winston Boogie Smith Jr. in a parking garage in Minneapolis’s Uptown neighborhood on June 3, 2021, the city was […]

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  • Meet the fact-checkers decoding Sri Lanka’s meltdown | Rest of World

    June 15, 2022

    On the evening of May 3, the atmosphere at Galle Face Green, an esplanade along the coastline of Sri Lanka’s capital city of Colombo, was carnivalesque. Parents strolled on sidewalks […]

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