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Oct 7 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Just learned that the Ukraine Center for Civil Liberties is a joint winner of the @NobelPrize for Peace. I spoke to Oleksandra Matviichuk (@avalaina), the head of the Center's board, earlier this year after the full scale Russian invasion: techpolicy.press/ukraine-may-ma…
@techpolicypress also ran a podcast episode based on this essay, which included Oleksandra and a variety of other voices working on collecting documentation of human rights abuses: techpolicy.press/the-sunday-sho…
Here's the #NobelPeacePrize2022 announcement.

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Oct 2
One month before the US midterms, observers are perplexed at the response to election misinformation by major tech platforms. This week I spoke with:

• Nora Benavidez (@AttorneyNora)
• Paul Barrett (@AuthorPMBarrett)
• Mike Caulfield (@holden)

Listen:
techpolicy.press/election-misin…
@AttorneyNora @AuthorPMBarrett @holden Background reading #1: @AuthorPMBarrett's report, Spreading The Big Lie: How Social Media Sites Have Amplified False Claims of U.S. Election Fraud: bhr.stern.nyu.edu/tech-big-lie
@AttorneyNora @AuthorPMBarrett @holden Background reading #2: @NaomiNixWrites on the coalition of groups advocating for tech firms to do more to confront election misinformation, of which @AttorneyNora is a part: washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
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Sep 25
Trust and Safety Comes of Age?

Next week in Palo Alto, multiple events will convene trust and safety professionals and researchers to talk shop. To take stock of the field, I spoke with:

• @shelbygrossman
• @David_MSullivan
• @jeff4llen

Listen:
techpolicy.press/trust-and-safe…
@shelbygrossman is co-editor of the Journal of Online Trust and Safety (new issue out now: tsjournal.org) and one of the organizers of next week's sold out Trust and Safety Research Conference: tsresearchconference.org
@David_MSullivan leads the Digital Trust and Safety Partnership, @dtspartnership, which recently published its first "Safe Assessments Report" evaluating trust and safety best practices: dtspartnership.org/dtsp-safe-asse…
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Sep 24
"LinkedIn ran experiments on more than 20 million users over five years that, while intended to improve how the platform worked for members, could have affected some people’s livelihoods, according to a new study."
Interesting-
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Sep 21
"The 2020 election and its turbulent aftermath fueled a powerful generation of online influencers... producing sky-high follower counts for an array of conservatives who echoed Trump’s false claims of election fraud, known as the 'big lie.'"
washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
This reporting by @lizzadwoskin and @jeremybmerrill is a must read. I've been following the collection of these datasets they reference for a couple of years. Such as: techpolicy.press/researchers-re…
And this one from U of W et al: techpolicy.press/researchers-re…
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Sep 14
At a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs committee meeting on Social Media’s Impact on Homeland Security, in her opening remarks TikTok's Vanessa Pappas crows about the fact that TikTok is only mentioned 19 times in charging documents for January 6 defendants.
Here is what she said per her written testimony. This is a false accolade. TheDonald[.]win, for instance, has only been mentioned once in documents that I am aware of; that is not because it played no role. This is not a number that means anything.
Neal Mohan, Chief Product Officer at YouTube says his platform has been removing QAnon content "for years." Well, they announced a ban in October 2020. That's like... less than two years? nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…
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Sep 12
Justice Dept. Issues 40 Subpoenas in Jan. 6 Inquiry

"Over the last week, it also seized the phones of two top Trump advisers" -- Boris Epshteyn and Mike Roman -- "a sign of an escalating investigation two months before the midterm elections."
nytimes.com/2022/09/12/us/…
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