A profile of Microsoft President Brad Smith, a DC veteran testing his well-worn playbook to shape AI regulation, such as by endorsing the creation of an agency
“Today we are 10 years older and wiser, and we need to put that wisdom to work. … Eric Horvitz : We've just released a set of recommendations for moving forward with the governance of AI technologies....
An in-depth look at how governments in 60+ countries have enacted 935+ internet blackouts since 2016 to control populations and silence dissent
Seven years, 60 countries, 935 internet shutdowns: How authoritarian regimes found an off switch for dissent. — PROLOGUE — Special operation and peace Tweets: @lvandenassum , @aymanm , @violazhouy...
Analysts: Russia's invasion of Ukraine could accelerate the fracturing of the internet, amid pressure on US tech giants from both Russia and the West to respond
and Big Tech's barely doing a damn thing Washington Post : Social networks face pressure to ban Russian state media Stratechery : Russia and the Four Internets, Shifts and Social Media, Gelsinger Inte...
Nick Clegg says Meta refused a Russian order to stop the independent fact-checking and labeling of content from four state-owned media organizations on Facebook
and jail Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Russia Announces Partial Bans on Facebook Amid Escalating Ukraine Conflict Rob Pegoraro / PCMag : Russia ‘Partially Restricts’ Facebook Access as Puni...
Telegram, which helped fuel democracy movements in Iran and Belarus, faces scrutiny as far-right extremists flock to it amid crackdowns by Facebook and Twitter
and strangely ignores the other less savory parts involving terrorist recruitment, illicit financing, narcotics sales, rampant fraud activity, etc. https://www.nytimes.com/... Tim Marchman / @timmarch...
The defining moments of tech in the 2010s, including the Arab Spring and unveiling of the iPad, as recalled by Zuckerberg, Snowden, Phil Schiller, and others
An oral history of the 2010s — When the decade began, tech meant promise — cars that could drive themselves, social networks that could take down dictators.
Reporters tried to buy fake Facebook ads on behalf of all 100 US senators and Facebook approved all of them, following other high profile fake ad approvals
and Facebook failed to catch that they were frauds BBC : Fake Cambridge Analytica ad hits Facebook Cristiano Lima / Politico : The trouble with Facebook's political ads Andrew Hutchinson / Social Medi...
How digital technologies and social media went from being hailed as tools of freedom during the Arab Spring to being blamed for upheavals in Western democracies
To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves. Tweets: @zeynep , @carnage4life ,...
Internal email details Twitter's plans to update rules on abuse, including expanding reporting options, hiding hate symbols behind warnings, more
WHEN TWITTER COULD take credit for revolutionary political movements like the Arab Spring, it was easy for the company's executives to joke about their liberal stance on free speech.
British Spies Used a URL Shortener to Honeypot Arab Spring Dissidents
A shadowy unit of the British intelligence agency GCHQ tried to influence online activists during the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests and the 2011 democratic uprisings largely known as the...