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  • Big Tech has a glaring double standard when it comes to web scraping | Fast Company

    April 18, 2023

    A couple years ago, I received an email from Google telling me that my browser extension, RegretsReporter, was at risk of being removed from the Chrome Web Store for violating Google’s policies. It […]

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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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  • Platforms Can Optimize for Metrics Beyond Engagement | WIRED

    March 7, 2023

    Social media, news, music, shopping, and other sites all rely on recommender systems: algorithms that personalize what each individual user sees. These systems are largely driven by predictions of what each […]

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  • Gonzalez and Taamneh: What You Need to Know | Institute for Rebooting Social Media

    February 22, 2023

    Access the internet, algorithms are curating what content you see. From the email promotions you receive through Google, Apple’s thoughts on an article you might like to read, and Amazon’s […]

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  • Combating Disinformation Wanes at Social Media Giants | The New York Times

    February 14, 2023

    SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube, like other social media platforms, spent years expanding its efforts to tackle misinformation after the 2016 election. It hired policy experts and content moderators and invested […]

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  • Content Moderation as Systems Thinking | Harvard Law Review

    February 7, 2023

    The stylized picture of content moderation that forms the basis for most regulatory and academic discussion of online speech governance is misleading and incomplete. That picture depicts content moderation as […]

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  • Value Pluralism and Human Rights in Content Moderation | Lawfare

    October 31, 2022

    On Oct. 4, the Council of the European Union (EU) approved the new Digital Services Act (DSA). The EU’s new law regulates social media company liability for user posts containing […]

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  • Born in the fire: What we can learn from how digital publishers in the Global South approach platforms | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

    October 28, 2022

    Based on interviews with a strategic sample of 11 publishers in eight low- and middle-income countries, in this report we analyse how various digital publishers across a range of Global […]

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  • Content Moderation Tools to Stop Extremism | Lawfare

    September 29, 2022

    Technology companies are more active than ever in trying to stop terrorists, white supremacists, conspiracy theorists, and other hateful individuals, organizations, and movements from exploiting their platforms, but government and […]

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  • FTC Explores Rules Cracking Down on Commercial Surveillance and Lax Data Security Practices | Federal Trade Commission

    August 15, 2022

    The Federal Trade Commission today announced it is exploring rules to crack down on harmful commercial surveillance and lax data security. Commercial surveillance is the business of collecting, analyzing, and […]

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