The NTIA filed that petition last week, asking the FCC to define "information content provider" more broadly to include entities…
Archive
Focus Tag: Political Elites
U.S. Warns Russia, China and Iran Are Trying to Interfere in the Election. Democrats Say It’s Far Worse | The New York Times
by David E. Sanger & Julian E. Barnes
July 28, 2020
American intelligence officials issued a public warning on Friday that China was “expanding its influence efforts” in the United States…
New White Paper on China’s Full-Spectrum Information Operations | Stanford Internet Observatory
by Renée Diresta, Carly Miller, Vanessa Molter, John Pomfret, & Glenn Tiffert
July 24, 2020
Today the Stanford Internet Observatory published a joint white paper with the Hoover Institution examining China’s covert and overt capabilities…
State-sponsored disinformation in Western democracies is the elephant in the room ǀ Euronews
by Sohini Chatterjee and Péter Krekó
July 9, 2020
Discussions on disinformation mostly focus on the external sources of disinformation: Russia and China. If we focus exclusively on disinformation…
Facebook’s Roger Stone Takedown | Graphika
by Graphika Team
July 8, 2020
Facebook Removes Inauthentic Network Attributed to Political Operative On July 8, 2020, Facebook took down a network of 54 Facebook…
Schiff: Trump’s tweets complicate election investigations | Axios
by Sara Fischer
June 19, 2020
Ahead of a House Intelligence Committee virtual hearing with Facebook, Google and Twitter on Thursday, committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)…
Facebook takes down Trump ads for violating organised hate policy | Financial Times
by Hannah Murphy
June 19, 2020
Facebook said on Thursday that it had taken down posts and advertising from Donald Trump’s re-election campaign that violate its…
Trump Wants To Limit Big Tech Social Media Section 230 Liability Protection | BuzzFeed News
by Paul McLeod
June 18, 2020
The Trump administration is proposing to change liability law to make it harder for social media platforms to censor content…
Biden Takes On Facebook, Saying It Failed to Stop Disinformation | Bloomberg
by Tyler Pager and Kurt Wagner
June 12, 2020
Joe Biden lashed out at Facebook on Thursday, saying the social media company has failed to stop the spread of…
Zuckerberg, Trump and the protests: Facebook’s muddled makeover | Financial Times
by Hannah Murphy
June 9, 2020
Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg told Facebook investors in a rare personal revelation that he no longer cared about being…