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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,…
The complex realm of misinformation intervention | Popular Science
by Charlotte Hu
May 11, 2022
If you’re someone who’s “chronically online,” then chances are good that you’ve encountered content that is either false or misleading.…
Why Elon Musk’s ambition to have Twitter “authenticate all real humans” will get people killed | Rest of World
by Andrew Deck, Emily Fishbein and Genevieve Glatsky
May 9, 2022
In June 2021, Alita, a trans woman living in Saudi Arabia, saw a hashtag trending on Twitter that translated roughly…
The Declaration for the Future of the Internet Is for Wavering Democracies, Not China and Russia | Lawfare
by Alex Engler
May 9, 2022
On April 28, the Biden administration announced a new global partnership that sets norms for the use of technology by…
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…