Six US senators reintroduce a bipartisan bill to improve social media transparency, requiring companies to share ad libraries, moderation stats, and more
John Perrino is a policy analyst at the Stanford Internet Observatory. — The Platform Accountability and Transparency Act (PATA) …
Stanford researchers: Twitter didn't stop uploads of 40+ known child sexual abuse images in recent months; the issue seemed fixed in May after staff were told
Social-media platform has now improved its detection system, Stanford Internet Observatory was told Mastodon: @alex@cybervillains.com and @alex@cybervillains.com Mastodon: Alex Stamos / @alex@cybervil...
Stanford Internet Observatory researchers say Facebook and YouTube should not allow paid political ads from state-controlled media outlets
Vanessa Molter is a graduate research assistant at the Stanford Internet Observatory. Renée DiResta is the research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory.
Q&A with Alex Stamos about Mark Zuckerberg's recent comments on free speech and where he went wrong, Facebook's News tab, fact-checking political ads, and more
Facebook relationship to speech is complicated: It takes down some forms of hate speech, provided it meets certain criteria … Tweets: @mathewi , @sriramk , @maxorgel , @benthompson , @mathewi , @mathe...
Interview with Facebook's ex-CSO Alex Stamos about the Stanford Internet Observatory, funded in-part by $5M from Craig Newmark, for monitoring online abuse
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Interview with Facebook's ex-CSO Alex Stamos about the Stanford Internet Observatory, funded in-part by $5M from Craig Newmark, for monitoring online abuse
Alex Stamos' Stanford-based project will try to persuade tech firms to offer academics access to massive troves of user data.