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  • Social Media Transparency Rules, Zauderer Standard Head to Supreme Court | Lawfare

    September 29, 2022

    In 2021, Florida passed SB 7072, a pathbreaking (in a bad way) social media speech law. This May, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a significant […]

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  • TechTank: How Does the Internet Facilitate Worsening Gun Violence? | Lawfare

    July 26, 2022

    Not a single week of 2022 has passed without multiple mass shootings. 343 people have been killed and 1,391 injured through July 4 of this year. In Uvalde, Texas, a troubled […]

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  • The book ban movement has a chilling new tactic: harass teachers on social media | MIT Technology Review

    July 21, 2022

    “This is a movement that was formed online, so it’s not so much that these activists are moving online so much as they are moving the target from schools to […]

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  • Getting Transparency Right | Lawfare

    July 18, 2022

    Transparency is essential to getting every other part of platform regulation right. But defining sound transparency rules—identifying what information is needed most from platforms like Twitter or YouTube, and how […]

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  • Private security groups regularly sent Minnesota police misinformation about protestors | MIT Technology Review

    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 Minneapolis’s Uptown neighborhood on June 3, 2021, the city was […]

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  • Facial Recognition Is Out of Control in India

    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 motor scooter in Hyderabad, in the Indian state of Telangana. […]

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  • The DHS Disinformation Governance Board and the problem with defining disinformation. | Slate

    May 25, 2022

    “Do you know [who] the greatest propagator of disinformation in the history of the world is? The U.S. government.” This was Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s response to the recent formation […]

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  • More tech regulation seen less favorably in U.S. than it was in 2021 | Pew Research Center

    May 25, 2022

    A declining share of Americans favor more government regulation of major technology companies, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Still, a plurality of U.S. adults favor greater regulation […]

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  • How DHS’s disinformation board fell victim to misinformation | NPR

    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 combat disinformation to suspending it. In those three weeks, […]

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  • Texas social media “censorship” law reinstated by appeals court | The Texas Tribune

    May 12, 2022

    A federal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated a Republican-backed Texas law that prohibits large social media companies from banning users over their political viewpoints. The decision hands a win to […]

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