After India's legal orders this week, Twitter blocked the tweets of 122 users, including reporters and politicians, from Indian users; it used to push back more
https://restofworld.org/... Lauren Weinstein / @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org : Instead of pushing back as #Twitter used to do, Elon now bends over for India's requests to block accounts. - http...
Interview with CrowdTangle co-founder Brandon Silverman on social networks' responsibility to open up, including by doing and sharing their own research
CrowdTangle co-founder Brandon Silverman on social networks' responsibility to open up — Brandon Silverman knows more about how stories spread on Facebook than almost anyone. Tweets: @marielamensch8...
Profile of Nick Clegg, Facebook's VP of Global Affairs and Comms, who led the creation of its Oversight Board and is now shaping the company's COVID-19 response
Facebook's new “Oversight Board” will be based in London, not Silicon Valley. They're planning an additional office in D.C. at some point in the future. https://www.politico.com/... Marie Lamensch / @...
A profile of AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, a co-recipient of the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, who says he supports regulating AI, including a ban on “killer robots”
MONTREAL — Yoshua Bengio is worried that innovations in artificial intelligence that he helped pioneer could lead to a dark future … Tweets: @marielamensch84 , @danbilefsky , @kenroth , @sebprovencher...