Timnit Gebru—a giant in the world of AI and then co-lead of Google’s AI ethics team—was pushed out of her…
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Facebook versus Australia | Tech Policy Press
by Justin Hendrix
February 18, 2021
In response to the imminent Australian law that would compel search and social media platforms to pay news organizations, Google…
Facebook Blocks News in Australia, Diverging With Google on Proposed Law | The New York Times
by Mike Isaac, Daisuke Wakabayashi, Damien Cave and Edmund Lee
February 18, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO — For months, Facebook and Google have been locked in a stare-down with news publishers and lawmakers in…
Google Has Been Allowing Advertisers to Exclude Nonbinary People from Seeing Job Ads | The Markup
by Jeremy B. Merrill
February 12, 2021
Google’s advertising system allowed employers or landlords to discriminate against nonbinary and some transgender people, The Markup found. Companies trying…
Platform Ban Round-up: Critics say Too Little, Too Late
by MediaWell Staff
January 7, 2021
Finally spurred to action by scenes of a disinformation-fueled mob of insurrectionists storming the Capitol, the major US social media…
Google to Lift Political Ad Ban on Thursday | Wall Street Journal
by Emily Glazer
December 10, 2020
Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it is planning to lift its ban on political ads on Thursday after a blackout of…
Covid disinformation sites often use tools from Google, Facebook and Apple, report finds | The Washington Post
by Craig Timberg
December 7, 2020
Google, Facebook, Apple and other technology companies that try to keep covid-19 disinformation and fraud off their own platforms are…
Platforms Try to Fight Misinformation As | Campaigns & Elections
by Sean J. Miller
September 15, 2020
Twitter and Google’s moves to limit election-related disinformation on their platforms haven’t been met with positive reviews from most industry…
Google allows misleading ads on mail-in voting to remain | The Washington Post
by Isaac Stanley-Becker
September 1, 2020
Google has declined to remove ads from a shadowy group echoing President Trump’s misleading claim that there is a meaningful…
Google enables Covid-19 disinformation sites to make money, report finds | Press Gazette
by William Turvill
August 7, 2020
A new University of Oxford report has exposed how Covid-19 disinformation websites are able to use Google’s search engine and…