MAY 1: Learn how journalists can spot and disarm current tactics to influence voters. #Elections2024
With: Tina Barton of Committee for Safe and Secure Elections, Yael Eisenstat of Cybersecurity For Democracy, Christine Fernando of The Associated Press, Sheera Frenkel of The New York Times, Chad Lorenz of Votebeat.
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'After years of congressional grilling and grandstanding aimed at tech giants, it’s striking that the U.S. government’s first major legislative crackdown on social media is essentially a gift to domestic Big Tech.' Will Oremus on the TikTok 'ban'. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?track…

When in Amsterdam, go on a Dutch tech podcast: ✅ Thanks Alexander Klöpping for inviting me to chat about tech, AI, discourse & democracy. Key take-away from our conversation: we don’t need to imagine a dystopian future, we have enough real social media-related issues to fix right now.

How on earth did I just board my international flight without showing my boarding pass or passport? I do not recall granting any airline permission to use facial recognition. Privacy technologies should be OPT IN, not opt out.
But here’s a lovely picture of the sunset at JFK.

I AM FINE

Maricopa County recorder Stephen Richer—MaricopaCountyRecorder (prsnl acct) (Republican) gives a MASTER CLASS in how to debunk election misinformation and conspiracy theories. More leaders like this, please.

As a tech and democracy expert, Yael Eisenstat's biggest concern isn’t necessarily that A.I.-generated deep fake videos or synthetic audio will affect the vote. It’s that the awareness of such tools might cause people to distrust any information they see. pen.org/yael-eisenstat…

“She wasn't even named in the caption.” The photo showing her mutilated body won a prestigious prize for the The Associated Press. If they’re going to be celebrated and profit off their photo of her murder, the least they could do is acknowledge her humanity.
Her name was Shani Louk.

This is how Shani Louk's family asked for her to be remembered. Smiling and alive.

The biggest photojournalism competition in the world decided to trample on the family's wishes in favor of giving a photo of Shani's mutilated body a prestigious award. She wasn't even named in

“It could only be a handful of people lighting the fire, but because of the algorithms, everyone gets burned”. Hillary Clinton on the proliferation of misogyny and hate online. Alongside Maria Ressa Věra Jourová & Gillian Tett at Columbia | SIPA + Aspen Digital event at Columbia.

“Thinking Fast & Slow” was a seminal part of my education. I continue to draw from it to this day.
RIP DanielKahneman.

Musk's attempt to silence Center for Countering Digital Hate for researching hate speech on X lost in court. This opening paragraph from the judge's ruling to dismiss X's claims says it all. It was always about trying to crush the CCDH's own free speech. Ironic? More coverage here:nytimes.com/2024/03/25/tec…

This piece explains the multi-front assault against those working to protect democracy in the digital age and the integrity of our elections against disinformation and online voter suppression campaigns. It is coordinated, intentional, and anti-democratic. nytimes.com/2024/03/17/us/…

🙏Council on Foreign Relations for inviting me to participate in this important panel on 'Societal Implications of AI', alongside Kat Duffy @[email protected] ian bremmer & Ramayya Krishnan. It was a substantive conversation that covered democracy, geopolitics, tech policy, governance, research challenges & more!

Spoke w/The Atlantic about what online platforms must do to ensure they don't help fuel political violence. As the author Caroline Mimbs Nyce writes: 'We know that the risk of political violence is real. 8 months remain until Nov. Platforms ought to spend them wisely.'theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Logged onto X to find I had a slew of notifications. They were all to let me know that the owner of this platform posted or commented on something. I don’t even follow the owner of this platform. Self-serving notifications…just another thing to make this platform less enjoyable.

The definition of a NY moment. When Michael Cohen is sitting in the row behind me. 🤷🏻‍♀️

X appears to be banning multiple accounts linked to sanctioned entities, all of which were named in TTP’s report. These suspensions seriously undermine the X's claim that the accounts belonged to imposters.