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Wednesday’s Senate intelligence committee hearing on social media influence operations provided insight into how the lawmakers and tech companies are coming to grips with the new challenges that online platforms pose for democracies.
On Wednesday morning at 9:30 a.m., the Senate intelligence committee will hold a hearing on foreign influence operations’s use of social media. The hearing will feature testimony from Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, and Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter. Watch the livestream below:
Papers released by a U.K. parliamentary committee and Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner are a first step toward concrete suggestions for regulating technology companies.
The proposed social-media censorship bill would have wide-reaching implications if eventually passed.
A new CSIS report points out where it is possible to make progress on technology, privacy and security issues.
Social media companies have long taken a hands-off approach to their platforms. It’s time for a more realistic approach.
Lawfare’s biweekly roundup of China-U.S. technology law and policy news.
More notes on the Senate’s version of the National Defense Authorization Act.
As Jack Goldsmith explains in a riveting new essay, the United States’s “internet freedom” agenda has been a boon for the commercial development of the internet. Yet in virtually every other respect, it has been an abject failure.
On Wednesday, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed Kaspersky Lab’s litigation seeking to halt the federal government’s ban on using its products. The full opinion is below.