HUGE opportunity: University of Toronto has posted a tenure track position in "social sciences and digital technologies" Munk School Successful candidate will be expected to become a member of the The Citizen Lab 😀 Pls circulate widely; details ⬇️ jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-As…

Very excited to watch! Congrats to the team behind it. Truly incredible work.

One of our most cherished researchers The Citizen Lab - 🅽oura 🅰ljizawi - has been subjected to horrible mistreatment by Cdn authorities over her immigration status 🇨🇦 talks loud about welcoming refugees; the reality is different. Shame on IRCC ctvnews.ca/canada/welcome…

I have a new OpEd out, co-authored with Bruce Schneier (Schneier Blog), in Slate on AI Microdirectives -- the Future of AI and the Law. We argue they will pose an unprecedented threat to fundamental rights and freedoms. Future Tense Susan Rigetti slate.com/technology/202…

In CIMA’s latest report, Gabrielle Lim & Samantha Bradshaw | @[email protected] explore how misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information laws often stifle independent journalism & undermine the already precarious state of independent media in many countries. cima.ned.org/publication/ch… #MediaDev

I'm joining the major leagues at Bloomberg @Technology as a data journalist focused on AI and algorithm accountability. I'll work on hypothesis-driven investigations about AI's impact on society, building off a track record of great data work at Bloomberg.

📅 Join CIMA on Oct. 2 at 9 AM EST for a webinar on the impact of mis-, dis-, and mal-information laws on global #pressfreedom, featuring Gabrielle Lim, Janjira Sombatpoonsiri, Dario Milo, & Lina Attalah #savesheikhjarrah. Register here: buff.ly/3RnkjZB

Starting doctoral fieldwork in #Denmark, #Finland, then #Baltics. I will be interviewing individuals interested in all things #disinfo, digital education and #digitalliteracy – NGO leaders, policymakers, librarians. Can you connect me to anyone? I'd love to chat with them!📚

People often ask me what most worries me about the future of the internet... Here's a big one!!

Crazy what a year can do

Shout out to my co-authors Irene Pasquetto and Samantha Bradshaw | @[email protected] and this Bernie meme I made for the article but did not make it into the final published version 🥲

Love (but also terrified) of this line from Benjamin Bratton's The Stack: "The Stack terraforms the host planet by drinking and vomiting its elemental juices and spitting up mobile phones." 🌍 🤢😢

New analysis uses satellite image to count the number of buildings Israel has destroyed over the past month in six Lebanese border villages. The count so far, in just these six villages: 1,085 From Christiaan Triebert, Riley Mellen, and Alexander Cardia nytimes.com/2024/10/30/wor…

Temporary measures to support people affected by the crisis in Lebanon ow.ly/ENk6105NrMU

For years, analysts (including me) have warned of the security risks of "lawful access" backdoors. Josh Rogin spoke to six sources confirming 🇨🇳 exploited those backdoors to eavesdrop on both 🇺🇸 parties' candidates wapo.st/4fae6Jo

Exciting stuff on source identity and political persuasion. What happens if LLMs become politicized though?

Proud of the work Natasha Goel and Policy, Elections, And Representation Lab have put into this important paper. Give it a read!

aclu.org/press-releases… a sigh of relief. for now...

JOB ALERT: The Munk School U of T Arts & Science is recruiting for an Assistant Professor, Social Sciences and Digital Technologies. This full-time tenure stream position offers the opportunity to work closely with The Citizen Lab. Come work with us! Apply here by Jan 7:

What can South-to-South knowledge exchange contribute to Tech and Democracy research? What are divergence points between Global North & South tech justice advocacies? How are so-called global “whole-of-society” coalitions extractive of “local partners”? New study GloTech Lab 1/6