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Hidden Harms: The Misleading Promise of Monitoring Students Online | Center for Democracy and Technology
by Elizabeth Laird, Hugh Grant-Chapman, Cody Venzke, Hannah Quay-de la Vallee
August 10, 2022
The pressure on schools to keep students safe, especially to protect them physically and support their mental health, has never…
TechTank: How Does the Internet Facilitate Worsening Gun Violence? | Lawfare
by Nicol Turner Lee
July 26, 2022
Not a single week of 2022 has passed without multiple mass shootings. 343 people have been killed and 1,391 injured through…
Very Online | Columbia Journalism Review
by Karen Maniraho
July 21, 2022
“Ours is a period of increasing noise,” Jason Parham wrote earlier this year, for Wired. “Everything is bleeding into everything…
The Declaration for the Future of the Internet Is for Wavering Democracies, Not China and Russia | Lawfare
by Alex Engler
May 9, 2022
On April 28, the Biden administration announced a new global partnership that sets norms for the use of technology by…
Opinion: Barack Obama’s smart way to change the disinformation debate | The Washington Post
by Editorial Board
May 2, 2022
Barack Obama may have done too little when he was president to counter Russia’s subversion of our democracy on social media.…
Online misinformation is linked to early COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy and refusal | Nature
by Francesco Pierri, Brea L. Perry, Matthew R. DeVerna, Kai-Cheng Yang, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer & John Bryden
April 26, 2022
Abstract Widespread uptake of vaccines is necessary to achieve herd immunity. However, uptake rates have varied across U.S. states during…
The big idea: how to win the fight against disinformation | The Guardian
by Eliot Higgins
April 5, 2022
In recent years, the internet has become the venue for a general collapse in trust. Trolling, fake news and “doing…
Ofcom: One in three internet users can’t spot fake accounts or content | Daily Mail Online
by Jonathan Chadwick
March 30, 2022
Many people believe they can easily spot fake news online, but a new report suggests we may not be as…
Operationalizing responsible AI | The Brookings Institution
March 17, 2022
There is widespread agreement among ethicists and tech advocates that responsible AI principles requires fairness, transparency, privacy, human safety, and…