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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…
Europe’s New Law Will Force Secretive TikTok to Open Up | WIRED
by Tom Simonite
May 5, 2022
Social networks grow up faster these days. It took Facebook eight years to reach 1 billion users, but TikTok got…
In Homeland Security, Partisan Fight Breaks Out Over Disinformation Board | The New York Times
by Steven Lee Myers and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
May 3, 2022
Nina Jankowicz’s new book, “How to Be a Woman Online,” chronicles the vitriol she and other women have faced from…
The tempest over DHS’s Disinformation Governance Board | The Washington Post
by Aaron Blake
May 2, 2022
The Department of Homeland Security’s creation of a Disinformation Governance Board has set off a backlash on the right —…
From the Arab Spring to Russian censorship: a decade of internet blackouts and repression | Rest of World
by Peter Guest
April 27, 2022
On February 27, a few days after Russia invaded Ukraine, radio journalist Valerii Nechay returned to St. Petersburg from a…
New E.U. landmark law targets Big Tech firms over hate speech, disinformation | NBC News
by Nicole Acevedo
April 27, 2022
The European Union reached an agreement Saturday on landmark legislation forcing Big Tech firms such as Google and Facebook's parent company…
Pranks and propaganda: Russian laws against ‘fake news’ target Ukrainians and the opposition, not pro-Putin pranksters | The Conversation
by Stanislav Budnitsky
April 19, 2022
When they launched their war on Ukraine in late February 2022, Russian authorities also unleashed an all-out assault on dissent…