Cyber & Technology
COVID-19, Speech and Surveillance: A Response
Jack Goldsmith, Andrew Keane Woods Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 1:10 PM
Neither of us has ever written anything that has been as misinterpreted as this piece in The Atlantic.
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deepfake
The Deepfake iPhone Apps Are Here
Jacob Schulz Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 1:14 PM
The president retweeted a deepfake of Joe Biden. The fake was made on an iPhone app that I’d already been researching.
Coronavirus
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.
Social Media
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.
Social Media
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.
Social Media
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.
Social Media
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.
Disinformation
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.
Disinformation
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.
Disinformation
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.