News Item Ajit Pai calls for “vigorous debate” on Trump’s social media crackdown | Ars Technica By Jon Brodkin on August 3, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
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News Item In Congress’s big tech hearing, look beyond ‘technology policy’ | Brookings By Alex Engler on July 29, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Exposure to social engagement metrics increases vulnerability to misinformation | HKS Misinformation Review By Mihai Avram, Nicholas Micallef, Sameer Patil, and Filippo Menczer on July 31, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item The owner of WeChat thinks deepfakes could actually be good | MIT Technology Review By Karen Hao on July 28, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item 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 on July 24, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Trump Can’t Ban TikTok, but He Can Hurt Its Parent Company, ByteDance | Foreign Policy By Beau Barnes, S. Nathan Park & Wade Weems on July 24, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Call for Papers: Semantics for Online Misinformation Detection, Monitoring, and Prediction | SEMIFORM 2020 By SEMIFORM on July 21, 2020
News Item We need tougher action against disinformation and propaganda | Brookings By Emma L. Briant on July 15, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance