If you care about technology and democracy, stop what you are doing right now and read this epic @techreview piece by @_KarenHao. She reports Facebook's "AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can't fix the problem."
This piece is replete with inside perspective that confirms what many have feared- a company unfixable, unwilling and unable to confront the original sin at the core of its business model. And here is a man, the head of Responsible AI, unable to escape that reality.
.@_KarenHao one of the most important details in this piece may be this. Not only that no team is working on this problem, but that the backstop argument at Facebook is ultimately to argue it is a scapegoat. (1)
.@_KarenHao @glichfield the other prominent AI leader also believes Facebook is "an easy target for scapegoating" and maintains there is no evidence of the platform's role in spreading disinformation.

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5 Mar
1/ Litigation against Trump:

1. E. Jean Carroll Defamation and Federal Tort Claims Act Litigation
2. Summer Zervos Defamation Suit
3. Mary Trump Fraud Litigation
4. Panama Hotel Fraud and Tax Litigation
5. Doe v. The Trump Corporation Class Action
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6. DC Civil Suit over Misuse of 2017 Inauguration Funds
7. Bennie Thompson Incitement Suit for Jan. 6 Capitol Attack
8. Eric Swalwell Incitement Suit for Jan. 6 Riots
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9. NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund Voting Rights Case for Post-Election Actions
10. New York Attorney General’s Civil Investigations
11. Criminal Investigations into Trump’s Finances
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5 Mar
Rep. Zoe Lofgren publishes analysis of social media posts from 102 Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 election techpolicy.press/rep-zoe-lofgre…
Said @RepZoeLofgren in the foreward to the nearly 2,000 page report: "“Like former President Trump, any elected Member of Congress who aided and abetted the insurrection or incited the attack seriously threatened our democratic government. "
"They would have betrayed their oath of office and would be implicated in the same constitutional provision cited in the Article of Impeachment."
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1/ This is a thread about @SusanWojcicki's statements today at the @AtlanticCouncil on @YouTube's suspension of Donald Trump. First, Wojcicki says the rules are the same for everybody.
2/ Wojcicki says Trump videos posted after January 6th violated the policy on incitement, and says the elevated violence risk still remains. But here she confirms "we will lift the suspension of the channel when we determine that the risk of violence has decreased."
3/ Wojcicki says Trump has 1 strike against him. @FredKempe says Jan 6th "was a pretty big strike." Wojcicki says YT is looking at government warnings, violent rhetoric the YouTube "intelligence desk" is seeing; hard to say when the suspension would lift based on what they see.
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FBI Director Testimony Makes Clear Why January 6th Commission Should Investigate Social Media Platforms - my latest for @techpolicypress: techpolicy.press/fbi-director-t…
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Drones.
Social media network analysis.
XRay technology.
Thermographic cameras.

NYPD just disclosed details on dozens of surveillance technologies. We have questions.

New from @JoelmCarter & me for @techpolicypress & @EngagingNews:
techpolicy.press/disclosures-of…
The POST Act, passed during the height of the George Floyd protests last summer, requires NYPD to disclose its complement of surveillance tech.

Last month, NYPD released the first tranche of three dozen briefs. We look at what they say- and don't say.
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How many undercover online profiles does NYPD operate? techpolicy.press/disclosures-of…
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1/ Democracies around the world are all mired in one crisis or another. Distortions in information ecosystems is one reason why. Big ideas for ways to funnel billions of dollars back into journalism are rare- it’s time to take a gamble on more than one.
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2/ Such an idea rose to the world’s attention this week: an Australian law that would compel search and social media platforms to pay news organizations through an arbitration mechanism, an approach now being considered by lawmakers in other governments. technologyreview.com/2021/02/20/101…
3/ But in view of the objections to this approach, what other options exist? If new subscription models are not enough to sustain the media industry, what else can be done to push billions of dollars back into journalism?technologyreview.com/2021/02/20/101…
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