On November 10, Ronald J. Deibert, renowned technology and security expert, will discuss the disturbing influence and impact of the…
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Focus Tag: Regulation
Research note: The scale of Facebook’s problem depends upon how ‘fake news’ is classified | HKS Misinformation Review
by Richard Rogers
10 hours ago
Ushering in the contemporary ‘fake news’ crisis, Craig Silverman of Buzzfeed News reported that it outperformed mainstream news on Facebook…
Is Twitter Going Full Resistance? Here’s the Woman Driving the Change. | POLITICO
by Nancy Scola
10 hours ago
On a late fall day last year, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sat down on a couch on the company’s San…
The role of norms in the Internet infrastructure: the infrastructural norm of interconnection and human rights | PCMLP Global Media Policy Seminar Series
3 days ago
The Internet is an interconnected network of roughly 70.000 networks, but there are hardly and binding rules that prescribe _how…
We have seen the enemy…and he is us: When engineering culture collides with human rights advocacy online | PCMLP Global Media Policy Seminar Series
3 days ago
In this talk, I explain what happens when human rights advocates try to change computer code, instead of legal code…
The perils of letting social media titans correct misinformation | Fortune
by Sarah Kreps & Douglas Kriner
3 days ago
With the election imminent, social media platforms find themselves once again in the awkward position of being the referee deciding…
To Understand Facebook Today, Read Its Earliest Critics | OneZero
by Joanne McNeil
6 days ago
Hardly a week goes by without another Facebook scandal. Frustration with Facebook and criticism of it — even despair over…
Randomized control trial finds IREX’s media literacy messages to be effective in reducing engagement with disinformation | IREX
by Katya Vogt
6 days ago
The Kremlin sponsored an aggressive propaganda campaign using social media to influence the 2016 U.S. elections. In an effort to…
Technology and Governance: Exploring law and innovation in the absence of state governance | The Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP)
6 days ago
Innovation and technological advancements are continuous, evolving products of knowledge consolidation, human ingenuity, and adaptive capacity. New forms of communication,…
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
7 days ago
Content moderation has exploded as a policy, advocacy, and public concern. But these debates still tend to be driven by…