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Should the government use Section 230 to force the tech giants into paying for the news? | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Joshua Benton
September 10, 2020
I would assume that “extort” isn’t the word that the author of a new report on Section 230 would prefer.…
Health insurance whistleblower: I lied to Americans about Canadian medicine | The Washington Post
by Wendell Potter
August 10, 2020
In my prior life as an insurance executive, it was my job to deceive Americans about their health care. I…
RightsCon Online 2020
July 23, 2020
RightsCon is the world's leading event on human rights in the digital age. Originally called the Silicon Valley Human Rights…
Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier | Reuters
by Raphael Satter
July 16, 2020
Oliver Taylor, a student at England’s University of Birmingham, is a twenty-something with brown eyes, light stubble, and a…
Reddit owes its moderators more than an updated hate speech policy | The Verge
by Casey Newton
July 2, 2020
If they’re getting regular death threats, don’t they deserve to be paid? Should Reddit pay its volunteer moderators? The thought…
Facebook’s ‘supreme court’ members announced | BBC News
by Jane Wakefield
May 7, 2020
Facebook has announced who will sit on an independent board, set up to have ultimate say over what controversial content…
The Internet Is a Toxic Hellscape—But We Can Fix It | WIRED
by Whitney Phillips
February 3, 2020
This is an argument against nihilism. It begins with me lying on the floor of my office before class. I’ve…
Principled Artificial Intelligence | Berkman Klein Center
by Jessica Fjeld & Adam Nagy
January 16, 2020
The rapid spread of artificial intelligence (AI) systems has precipitated a rise in ethical and human rights-based frameworks intended to…
Digital Political Ethics: Aligning Principles with Practice | CITAP Digital Politics
by Jessica Baldwin-Philippi, Leticia Bode, Daniel Kreiss, & Adam Sheingate
January 8, 2020
This report is the fruit of a bipartisan report to identify areas of agreement among key stakeholders concerning ethical principles…