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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…
Getting Transparency Right | Lawfare
by Daphne Keller
July 18, 2022
Transparency is essential to getting every other part of platform regulation right. But defining sound transparency rules—identifying what information is…
Private security groups regularly sent Minnesota police misinformation about protestors | MIT Technology Review
by Tate Ryan-Mosley and Sam Richards
July 7, 2022
When US marshals shot and killed a 32-year-old Black man named Winston Boogie Smith Jr. in a parking garage in…
Facial Recognition Is Out of Control in India
by Agnee Ghosh
June 15, 2022
In May 2021, during India’s second wave of COVID-19, SQ Masood and his father-in-law were returning home on his silver-coloured…
The DHS Disinformation Governance Board and the problem with defining disinformation. | Slate
by Stavroula Pabst
May 25, 2022
“Do you know [who] the greatest propagator of disinformation in the history of the world is? The U.S. government.” This…
More tech regulation seen less favorably in U.S. than it was in 2021 | Pew Research Center
by Emily A. Vogels
May 25, 2022
A declining share of Americans favor more government regulation of major technology companies, according to a new Pew Research Center…
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…
Texas social media “censorship” law reinstated by appeals court | The Texas Tribune
by Andrew Zhang
May 12, 2022
A federal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated a Republican-backed Texas law that prohibits large social media companies from banning users…
Google paying more than 300 EU publishers for news, more to come | Reuters
by Foo Yun Chee
May 12, 2022
BRUSSELS, May 11 (Reuters) - Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google has signed deals to pay more than 300 publishers in Germany,…