"On Nov. 9, two days after The Associated Press called the race for Mr. Biden, crisis meetings were underway at Trump campaign headquarters in Arlington, Va." The comms strategy was set.
"... it’s significant that Meta, Facebook’s parent company, recently wrote to the Los Angeles Police Department demanding that its officers cease the use of Facebook for surveillance and signaling stronger measures in the future." techpolicy.press/meta-fires-a-w…
"Meta’s letter to the LAPD affirmed that the use of fake accounts violates its terms of service. The company also demanded more generally that the LAPD cease collection of data for surveillance purposes." techpolicy.press/meta-fires-a-w…
"...we believe that the consequence of color-blindness is a set of political policies that threaten democratic inclusion." techpolicy.press/the-need-for-r…
"Adapting this race-conscious standard for content moderation would require platforms to pay extra scrutiny to content that has the potential for disproportionate harms to racial and ethnic groups based on historical and structural forms of discrimination and power in the US."
Tornadoes Hit Several States, With at Least 50 Dead in Kentucky- roof collapse at Illinois Amazon warehouse traps, kills workers... "unseasonably" powerful storms: nytimes.com/live/2021/12/1…
New York City is among the first cities to release an Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy. For this week's @techpolicypress podcast, I spoke to Neal Parikh (@npparikh), Director of Artificial Intelligence in the New York City Mayor’s Office of the CTO: techpolicy.press/the-sunday-sho…