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Climate Change Denial & Skepticism: A Review of the Literature | MediaWell
by Catherine Weddig
September 15, 2022
Political actors and individuals who deny the reality of human-caused climate change are a minority with an outsized ability to…
FTC Explores Rules Cracking Down on Commercial Surveillance and Lax Data Security Practices | Federal Trade Commission
by Federal Trade Commission
August 15, 2022
The Federal Trade Commission today announced it is exploring rules to crack down on harmful commercial surveillance and lax data…
Reconsidering the Fight Against Disinformation | Tech Policy Press
by Théophile Lenoir
August 1, 2022
On May 25th, 2022 in Paris, a group of notable media and communications scholars met at Sciences Po for a…
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…
The book ban movement has a chilling new tactic: harass teachers on social media | MIT Technology Review
by Tanya Basu
July 21, 2022
“This is a movement that was formed online, so it’s not so much that these activists are moving online so…
The Impotence of the Fourth Amendment in a Post-Roe World | Lawfare
by Jolynn Dellinger and Stephanie Pell
June 15, 2022
The year is 2023. It’s been one year since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson…
India considering appeals panel with power to reverse Facebook, Twitter and YouTube content moderation decisions | TechCrunch
by Manish Singh
June 8, 2022
India is proposing to create an appeals panel with the veto power to reverse content moderation decisions of social media…
How DHS’s disinformation board fell victim to misinformation | NPR
by Shannon Bond
May 24, 2022
Three weeks: That's how long it took for the Department of Homeland Security to go from announcing a board intended…
To make AI fair, here’s what we must learn to do | Nature
by Mona Sloane
May 5, 2022
Developers of artificial intelligence must learn to collaborate with social scientists and the people affected by its applications. Beginning in…