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18 Jul, 4 tweets, 3 min read
This week's @techpolicypress podcast features two guests:

• Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) on countering extremism, January 6 and the limits of social media monitoring;

• @SamGregory on voice clones, deepfakes and the ethics of synthetic media

Listen!
techpolicy.press/the-sunday-sho…
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And as always you can subscribe via your favorite podcast service here: techpolicypress.captivate.fm/listen
In this podcast:

@selectedwisdom explains the limitations of social media monitoring at the FBI & the complicated issues with taking on domestic extremism.

@SamGregory explains why people were so taken aback at an #AnthonyBourdain voice clone:

techpolicy.press/the-sunday-sho…

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19 Jul
Devastating new report from @sheeraf:

At the beginning of the pandemic, Facebook data scientists had a plan to figure out how many users saw false or misleading health info that would require time and money.

The plan was never approved. nytimes.com/2021/07/19/tec…
Facebook issued a detailed rebuttal on Saturday to the White House allegation that social media companies are "killing people" with misinformation about vaccines.

This report would suggest that rebuttal was issued with no actual knowledge of the scale of the problem.
It's not that the data isn't there- it's that it's not structured to be accessible to managers. Basically like selling cigarettes with no knowledge of the ingredients.
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16 Jul
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:
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13 Jul
A trio of German researchers studying hate speech preserved the entirety of a public pro-Trump Telegram channel between Dec 2016 - January 2021.

Some of the channel members, it turns out, actively coordinated to participate in the January 6 insurrection:
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The channel the researchers preserved contains 26,431 messages through January 2021 that represent a “continuously evolving isolated ‘echo-chamber’ discussion, produced by 521 distinct users,” they say in the Journal of Open Humanities Data.
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30 Jun
In which Amazon wants you to equate years of scholarly inquiry as simple prejudice...
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25 Jun
This week, the Senate blocked legislation aimed at protecting the right to vote, while Democrats in the House created a Select Committee to investigate January 6. I spoke to @hakeemjefferson on anti-democratic forces in the U.S. and the role of technology:
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I was struck by the clarity of his assessment of the January 6 assault, just hours after it happened. fivethirtyeight.com/features/storm…
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20 Jun
This week, the 20th episode of the @techpolicypress podcast takes on hard problems: first, we have @daphnehk on the regulation of algorithmic amplification; and second @HalSinger takes us on a tour of five new bills on competition put forward in the House:
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