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COVID-19 and Social Media Content Moderation

Evelyn Douek Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 1:10 PM

The pandemic is shaping up to be a formative moment for tech platforms.

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What We Learned From Bloomberg’s Online Campaign

Bridget Barrett Fri, Mar 6, 2020, 2:08 PM

Bullish digital campaigning can’t change hearts and minds at the polls—but it can change Facebook.

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Random Toxicity? What’s Going on in @benjaminwittes’s Mentions

Benjamin Wittes, Jacob Schulz Fri, Feb 28, 2020, 3:28 PM

An attempt to understand the hostile, and strangely repetitive, responses to @benjaminwittes tweets and to demystify some bizarre pile-ons it and other accounts provoke.

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What Should We Do About Section 230?

Stewart Baker Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 11:50 AM

Some tentative thoughts on whether the law can be improved.

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Facebook’s White Paper on the Future of Online Content Regulation: Hard Questions for Lawmakers

Evelyn Douek Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 11:27 AM

The company’s new white paper is a thoughtful document that raises serious questions that regulators, and the rest of us interested in the future of online content regulation, need to reckon with.

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Members of the House Are on Notice: No Tweeting Deepfakes

Evelyn Douek, Quinta Jurecic, Jacob Schulz Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 3:54 PM

The House Ethics Committee has announced that members who share deepfakes or “other audio-visual distortions intended to mislead the public” could face sanctions. It’s a small but noteworthy step.

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Facebook's Oversight Board Bylaws: For Once, Moving Slowly

Evelyn Douek Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 4:15 PM

The new bylaws include a number of promising signs about Facebook’s commitment to the Oversight Board experiment. But the board’s original ambit of operations will be fairly limited.

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Is There a Targeted Troll Campaign Against Lisa Page? A Bot Sentinel Investigation

Christopher Bouzy Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 7:14 PM

I am the founder and CEO of Bot Sentinel, a platform that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to classify inauthentic and problematic Twitter accounts. Even I was shocked by what we discovered.