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11 laws and bills against disinformation in Latin America | Latin American Journalism Review
by Júlio Lubianco
December 18, 2020
As in the rest of the world, in Latin America, disinformation and fake news on the Internet spread rapidly and…
International Legal Regulation of Autonomous Technologies | Centre for International Governance Innovation
by Liis Vihul
November 17, 2020
Regulatory rules, rather than legislative solutions, are likely to emerge first, as has been the case with other novel technologies.…
California’s Proposition 22 Reinforces the Need for Fair Working Conditions Worldwide | Oxford Internet Institute
by Sara Spinks
November 11, 2020
Last Tuesday, voters in California passed Proposition 22, a measure that allows gig companies to hire drivers and couriers as…
Is Twitter Going Full Resistance? Here’s the Woman Driving the Change. | POLITICO
by Nancy Scola
October 29, 2020
On a late fall day last year, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sat down on a couch on the company’s San…
Expanding the debate about content moderation: Scholarly research agendas for the coming policy debates | Internet Policy Review
by Tarleton Gillespie, Patricia Aufderheide, Elinor Carmi, Ysabel Gerrard, Robert Gorwa, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Sarah T. Roberts, Aram Sinnreich, and Sarah Myers West
October 23, 2020
Content moderation has exploded as a policy, advocacy, and public concern. But these debates still tend to be driven by…
Digital Public Infrastructure: A Corporation for Public Software | Stanford PACS
October 1, 2020
Imagine living in a society in which most of the land and buildings available for meeting and working were owned…
Data and Democracy Symposium | Knight First Amendment Institute
September 30, 2020
Today, governments and private actors can collect, store, and continuously update vast troves of data. Yet we have barely begun…
Trump eyes ‘concrete legal steps’ against social media sites for alleged bias against conservatives | The Washington Post
by Tony Romm
September 24, 2020
President Trump on Wednesday said the government is eyeing “concrete legal steps” against social media sites that he alleges are…
But Facebook’s Not a Country: How to Interpret Human Rights Law for Social Media Companies | Yale Journal on Regulation
by Susan Benesch
September 16, 2020
Private social media companies regulate much more speech than any government does, and their platforms are being used to bring…