Despite broad support by the US public and lawmakers for child internet laws, Congress has done nothing, even after holding 39 hearings on the topic since 2017
Americans are broadly united in support of laws to make the internet safer for kids. So why doesn't Congress act? Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @justinhendrix , @superwuster , @evan_greer , @vi...
A look at Stanford's bootcamp to educate Congress on deepfakes, how AI can potentially reshape education and health care, and the use of AI in national security
That's because it is a powerful tech giant. Stanford is BigTech and BigTech is Stanford. — By @nitashatiku — https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Bluesky: Harbour Fordyce / @harbourfordyce.bsky.so...
A look at Stanford University's efforts to educate Congress on AI, including a boot camp covering AI's potential to reshape education and a primer on deepfakes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... X: Cristiano Lima / @viacristiano : D.C. aides get wined and dined at Stanford AI event, @nitashatiku reports https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Steven Overly / @s...
In four new studies with collaboration from Meta, researchers find Facebook's algorithm is “influential” but doesn't necessarily change beliefs, and more
Ekeoma E. Uzogara Authors Info & Affiliations — pp. 386-387 Washington Post : Changing Facebook's algorithm won't fix polarization, new study finds Science : How do social media feed algorithms aff...
Some under-resourced academic and civil-society researchers say a Twitter API paywall would jeopardize studies of influence campaigns and platform manipulation
Are you affected? … Tweets: Rebekah Tromble / @rebekahktromble : It's official. Academic researchers have started getting notices that their access to the API will be shut off. 1/ https://twitter.com/...
In a speech on disinformation, Obama said social media firms' design choices contribute to polarization, and called for more transparency and Section 230 reform
including over the First Amendment—I didn't expect to find much to agree with in this speech. But it's actually very good, and worth reading, even if I don't agree with all of it. THREAD https://techp...
Twitter says it stopped enforcing its civic integrity policy in March 2021 regarding lies about the 2020 US election as Biden had been president for over a year
massively so. Twitter is wrong. Katie Harbath / @katieharbath : This is a perfect example of why I wrote the oped about all the global elections coming up. We had no idea Twitter had stopped doing thi...
Sen. Marsha Blackburn says WSJ's Facebook Files whistleblower has turned over documents and plans to reveal their identity “at some point down the line”
Happy Thursday and welcome to The Technology 202! Below: Meet “Help Desk,” a new initiative our colleagues are launching … Tweets: @donie , @nicoleperlroth , @talkopan , @kantrowitz , @viacristiano ,...
While traffic surges on Facebook, with messaging up 50% from last month in many countries, their now-remote workforce struggles to handle its own IT snafus
in 2020, GOOG will generate $54.3B operating income (43% margin) and FB will pull in $33.7B (49% margin), per revised forecast by Cowen & Co. https://variety.com/... Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : Facebo...
Inside the growing split between Silicon Valley and the Democratic Party, once allies, as leading presidential candidates express extreme worries about Big Tech
With help from Cristiano Lima … Julie Bort / Business Insider : WeWork founder Adam Neumann joked about changing the United States Constitution so he could run for president Tweets: Teddy Schleifer / ...