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  • Addressing Media Capture | Lawfare

    May 31, 2023

    For years, industry, governments, and civil society have grappled with how to address the potential harm from state media while protecting people’s right to information in the digital domain. In […]

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  • WhatsApp could disappear from UK over privacy concerns, ministers told | The Guardian

    May 29, 2023

    The UK government risks sleepwalking into a confrontation with WhatsApp that could lead to the messaging app disappearing from Britain, ministers have been warned, with options for an amicable resolution […]

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  • Transparency Won’t Be Enough for AI Accountability

    May 23, 2023

    On the surface, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on Oversight of AI went much differently for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman than it did for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in his […]

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  • The Metaverse, Zuckerberg’s Tech Obsession, Is Officially Dead. ChatGPT Killed It | Business Insider

    May 9, 2023

    The Metaverse, the once-buzzy technology that promised to allow users to hang out awkwardly in a disorientating video-game-like world, has died after being abandoned by the business world. It was […]

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  • Meta Says it Doesn’t Need News Content, as Canada Pushes for New Publisher Revenue Share Regulations | Social Media Today

    March 30, 2023

    As Canada considers implementing a new, mandatory process that would force Meta and Google to negotiate commercial deals with local news publishers, as payment for benefiting from the use of […]

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  • Comparing Platform Research API Requirements | Tech Policy Press

    March 23, 2023

    Platform researchers are living through a strange moment– a pseudo-post-API age. On the one hand, there is no need to convince anyone–in Washington, Brussels, or even Silicon Valley–that using platform […]

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  • Platforms Can Optimize for Metrics Beyond Engagement | WIRED

    March 7, 2023

    Social media, news, music, shopping, and other sites all rely on recommender systems: algorithms that personalize what each individual user sees. These systems are largely driven by predictions of what each […]

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  • Where did Facebook’s funding for journalism really go? | Columbia Journalism Review

    February 28, 2023

    “People want more local news, and local newsrooms are looking for more support,” Campbell Brown wrote in 2019 when Meta (then Facebook) announced its three-year, $300 million commitment to global […]

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  • The Time to Prevent a Toxic Metaverse Is Now | Centre for International Governance Innovation

    February 16, 2023

    Famed science fiction author Neal Stephenson sat down for a chat recently with Meta’s Chief Product Officer Chris Cox during the World Economic Forum in Davos. And although the event […]

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  • Born in the fire: What we can learn from how digital publishers in the Global South approach platforms | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

    October 28, 2022

    Based on interviews with a strategic sample of 11 publishers in eight low- and middle-income countries, in this report we analyse how various digital publishers across a range of Global […]

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