Thread by @justinhendrix

1/ Hi all! Just a little thread on the week that was for @techpolicypress- if you're not following or subscribed to the newsletter, I hope you'll consider it. The goal is to cover the intersection of technology and democracy: techpolicy.press

2/ Started the week on Sunday with a podcast focused on the relationship between collective behavior and digital communications technology:

https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1414390733885292546?s=20

3/ @ellgood caught us up on President Biden’s July 9 executive order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy that should light a fire under the Federal Trade Commission:

https://twitter.com/techpolicypress/status/1414341478407712769?s=20

4/ @joejerome delivered a tour of state privacy legislation, including lessons learned for privacy activists going forward as he departs his advocacy role:

https://twitter.com/joejerome/status/1414936563734269958?s=20

5/ I covered new research and a data repository of Telegram chatter from researchers studying hate speech and computational linguistics that happened to catch its subjects planning for January 6:

https://twitter.com/justinhendrix/status/1415061000227889154?s=20

6/ Cooper Raterink wrote about the risks of software written by AI, including the automation of bias: techpolicy.press/assessing-the-…

7/ We took a look at the Surgeon General's announcement on health misinformation- and how it reflected ideas from the research community including from @BostonJoan, @EmilyDreyfuss et al:

https://twitter.com/techpolicypress/status/1415792373574127624?s=20

8/ And finally this week a look at synthetic media, deepfakes and ethics in light of news that an AI voice model of Anthony Bourdain was employed in a new documentary about him:

https://twitter.com/hels/status/1416002734453579778?s=20

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