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  • How to Prepare for the Deluge of Generative AI on Social Media | Knight First Amendment Institute

    June 20, 2023

    Journalists, technology ethics researchers, and civil society groups tend to focus on the harms of new technologies, and rightly so. But this results in two gaps. The first is an […]

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  • Web3 is Going Just Where? A fireside chat with Molly White and Jonathan Zittrain

    December 19, 2022

    In the wake of the FTX collapse, what impact have cryptocurrencies had on the world and what can we learn from them about the next generation of the internet we […]

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  • Meta, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter dodge questions on social media and national security | TechCrunch

    September 15, 2022

    Executives from four of the biggest social media companies testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wednesday, defending their platforms and their respective safety, privacy and moderation failures in recent […]

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  • Doxxed, threatened, and arrested: Russia’s war on Wikipedia editors | Nieman Journalism Lab

    September 13, 2022

    One Friday in March, not long after Russia invaded Ukraine, Mikhail, a Russia-based Wikipedia editor, opened the Telegram app to discover that he had been doxxed. His personal information, including […]

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  • Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics | Vice

    May 5, 2022

    A location data firm is selling information related to visits to clinics that provide abortions including Planned Parenthood facilities, showing where groups of people visiting the locations came from, how […]

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  • Who has the right to be anonymous? | New Statesman

    April 21, 2022

    WASHINGTON — On Tuesday (19 April) the Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz published an article that confirmed the name of the woman behind the Twitter account Libs of TikTok. I […]

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  • “It’s O.K. to abandon ship”: How to critically evaluate scientific claims before pursuing a story | Nieman Journalism Lab

    February 17, 2022

    Our inboxes are full of them — press releases, pitches, and other media calling some scientific event “a breakthrough,” “a game-changer,” or “a paradigm-shifter.” Scientists, investors, and analysts flood our […]

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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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  • 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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  • Facebook convinced poll panel to settle on a voluntary code | Hindustan Times

    November 23, 2021

    In the run-up to the 2019 general elections, internal Facebook documents say it managed to convince the Election Commission of India (ECI) to scuttle its original intention of introducing stiff […]

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