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Kenneth Roth

@kenroth
157 posts
2026-02-23
A.I. regulation is one of the few issues that a divided America seems united on. Eighty percent of Americans want rules for A.I. even if that means the technology develops more slowly, according to a Gallup survey last spring. But not Trump. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2026-02-23 View on X
New York Times

In recent interviews, Sam Altman said AI's adoption faces more resistance than he expected, while Jensen Huang warned the “doomer narrative” may be winning

Tech leaders are beginning to worry about the public's underwhelming enthusiasm for their plans to remake the world with artificial intelligence.LinkedIn:Bridget FahrlandandDaron Y...

2026-02-16
Iranian authorities, terrified of their people, have banned Instagram, Telegram, WhatsApp and YouTube. In moments of political crisis, the government can also shut down the internet altogether so people cannot communicate and spread news of unrest. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2026-02-16 View on X
New York Times

Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities, integrated across communications and internet networks, and recently used to track down protesters

As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet …

Iranian authorities are “tapping a vast digital surveillance infrastructure to track down dissenters who participated in the recent antigovernment demonstrations.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2026-02-16 View on X
New York Times

Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities, integrated across communications and internet networks, and recently used to track down protesters

As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet …

2026-02-15
Iranian authorities, terrified of their people, have banned Instagram, Telegram, WhatsApp and YouTube. In moments of political crisis, the government can also shut down the internet altogether so people cannot communicate and spread news of unrest. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2026-02-15 View on X
New York Times

Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities, integrated across communications and internet networks, and recently used to track down protesters

As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet …

Iranian authorities are “tapping a vast digital surveillance infrastructure to track down dissenters who participated in the recent antigovernment demonstrations.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2026-02-15 View on X
New York Times

Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities, integrated across communications and internet networks, and recently used to track down protesters

As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet …

2025-12-26
The Ellisons are trying to become conservative media moguls like the Murdochs. That could radically shift the American media environment to the right. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2025-12-26 View on X
New York Times

How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD

Kevin Tierney / @catholicsmark : Well yes, in order to survive CBS needed to have less bias in its newsroom. Why is this surprising? Steve Rosenbaum / @magnifymedia : https://www.n...

2025-12-25
The Ellisons are trying to become conservative media moguls like the Murdochs. That could radically shift the American media environment to the right. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2025-12-25 View on X
New York Times

How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD

When David Ellison became a teenager, his father, Larry, bought him a gift not usually bestowed on a 13th birthday: his own Katana stunt plane.

2025-10-20
“The idea that everything is an equally valid source and that it's somehow wrong that Wikipedia tries to prioritize the mainstream media and quality newspapers and magazines and make judgments about that is not something I can apologize for” — Jimmy Wales https://www.nytimes.com/...
2025-10-20 View on X
New York Times

An interview with Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia's decentralized model, right-wing attacks and political pressure, Elon Musk, protecting volunteer editors, and more

Jimmy Wales https://www.nytimes.com/... Bluesky: Yonette Joseph / @sugarcane99 : Jimmy Wales on Elon Musk's attacks on Wikipedia:  —  “I don't think he has the power he thinks he h...

2024-08-11
There's a significant risk that autocratic governments will use a new draft treaty on cybercrime to justify on-line surveillance and repression. https://apnews.com/...
2024-08-11 View on X
Associated Press

Around 200 nations approved the UN Convention against Cybercrime, expected to win General Assembly approval; critics say it could be used to justify repression

A global deal on the criminal use of computer technology is moving ahead despite worries it will let governments around …

2024-07-07
“To stop the Chinese public from talking about Xi Jinping, a social media platform censored 564 names that users had come up with to refer to him....A regulator gave a video platform a database of more than 35,000 terms about Mr. Xi that it wanted policed.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-07-07 View on X
New York Times

How xenophobic content on Chinese social media, directed towards Japan, the US, Jews, and others, became the subject of a debate and spreads despite censorship

Li Yuan / New York Times : X: @kenroth , @scs_disputes , @scs_disputes , @liyuan6 , @david_mulroney , and @alfonslopeztena LinkedIn: Dr. Nils Seibert , Michael D Pendleton , and G...

2024-07-06
“To stop the Chinese public from talking about Xi Jinping, a social media platform censored 564 names that users had come up with to refer to him....A regulator gave a video platform a database of more than 35,000 terms about Mr. Xi that it wanted policed.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-07-06 View on X
New York Times

How xenophobic content on Chinese social media, directed towards Japan, the US, Jews, and others, became the subject of a debate and spreads despite censorship

Li Yuan / New York Times : X: @kenroth , @liyuan6 , @scs_disputes , @scs_disputes , @david_mulroney , and @alfonslopeztena LinkedIn: Dr. Nils Seibert , Michael D Pendleton , and G...

2023-08-07
Is @Apple bowing to Russian censors? With all its money, it can certainly afford to be more principled.
2023-08-07 View on X
Meduza.io

Meduza, an outlet covering Russian news, says Apple Podcasts removed its flagship podcast and then restored the show two days later without providing reasons

2023-05-06
The experience of a journalist who reported on TikTok: “At the same time TikTok was pushing back on reports of a toxic workplace, several employees had decided to surveil my phone, tracking my location in hopes of finding my sources.” https://www.ft.com/...
2023-05-06 View on X
Financial Times

A journalist recounts discovering that ByteDance surveilled her in 2022 after reporting on TikTok's staff troubles in London and wonders why she was targeted

The FT's Cristina Criddle on discovering she'd been surveilled by the controversial social media company

2023-04-24
Twitter belatedly discovers that it makes sense to promote users with large numbers of followers rather than any troll who will pay @ElonMusk $8 a month. But in the meantime, the meaning of the blue check has been degraded by the new pay-to-play approach. https://www.bbc.com/...
2023-04-24 View on X
BBC

Twitter restores the gold badges of some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay

Some Twitter accounts with more than one million followers have had their blue tick badges re-instated by Twitter without paying to subscribe.

2023-04-22
Is @ElonMusk really so benighted as to be unable to distinguish between a media outlet with state funding that retains editorial independence and a state-funded propaganda outlet? https://www.reuters.com/...
2023-04-22 View on X
NPR

Sources: Twitter removed its “visibility filtering rules”, or “shadow bans”, for Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government accounts and state-affiliated media

Dmitry Medvedev, a leading government official and former president of Russia, took to Twitter earlier …

2023-04-03
The Biden administration banned any U.S. government use of highly intrusive spyware developed by the Israeli firm, NSO Group. The spyware has been used to hack the phones of dissidents and journalists. Some part of the US government didn't get the message. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-04-03 View on X
New York Times

Sources: in November 2021, five days after Joe Biden put NSO on a Commerce Department blocklist, a US government front company licensed NSO's geolocation tool

The Biden administration has been trying to choke off use of hacking tools made by the Israeli firm NSO.

Elon Musk retaliates against the @NYTimes for tis refusal to pay to play by removing its blue check verification. Now will he start downgrading its content, filling the “For you” feed with whatever crackpots are willing to fork over his monthly fee? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-04-03 View on X
Washington Post

Twitter removed the verified badge from the New York Times' main account after Elon Musk responded to a meme outlining the outlet's decision not to pay for Blue

The Times and other news organizations say they won't pay for the icon, which is designed to protect against impersonation.

2023-02-05
The U.S. government “is considering new sanctions on Chinese surveillance companies over sales to Iran's security forces..., as Iranian authorities increasingly rely on the technology to crack down on protests” against their repressive rule. https://www.wsj.com/...
2023-02-05 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: the US considers sanctions on Tiandy, Uniview, and other Chinese surveillance tech makers over sales to Iran in 2022 as protests swept the country

Beijing's exports of video recorders to Iran more than doubled in 2022 as protests swept the country

2023-01-26
“Censorship, arrests, power cuts.” Despite India's democracy, Prime Minister Modi's government is going to extraordinary lengths to prevent citizens from seeing a BBC documentary on his passivity in 2002 in Gujarat as Muslims were attacked and killed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-01-26 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Twitter reinstates some Hindu nationalist accounts popular in India, including some denigrating Muslims, and blocks links to a BBC documentary on Narendra Modi

“Censorship, arrests, power cuts.” Despite India's democracy, Prime Minister Modi's government is going to extraordinary lengths to prevent citizens from seeing a BBC documentary on his passivity in 2002 in Gujarat as Muslims were attacked and killed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-01-26 View on X
The Daily Beast

After an uproar, Twitter suspends US white nationalist Nick Fuentes' verified account, one day after lifting the Holocaust denier's ban that began in July 2021

both of whom were central to the “Stop the Steal” movement that culminated in the January 6th attack on the Capitol—have been suspended again. https://twitter.com/... @bonchieredst...