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Dec 9 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
1/ A little thread on this week's @techpolicypress offerings.

The week started with a discussion on the so-called Twitter Files with @David_Ingram and @mmasnick.

Scrutinizing “The Twitter Files” techpolicy.press/scrutinizing-t…
2/ On Monday, @JJaursch shared ideas on how to overcome barriers to the effective enforcement of Europe's #DigitalServicesAct #DSA

Barriers to Strong DSA Enforcement – and How to Overcome Them techpolicy.press/barriers-to-st…
3/ Tuesday, @christelletono and @SonjaSolomun took us through weaknesses in Canada's proposed legislation to regulate AI.

How To Fix Canada’s Proposed Artificial Intelligence Act techpolicy.press/how-to-fix-can…
4/ On Wednesday, @JCPerrino took a look at what we know about "trust and safety" at Elon Musk's Twitter.

What’s Going on With Twitter’s Trust & Safety Policy? techpolicy.press/whats-going-on…
5/ On Thursday I summarized Ranking Digital Rights' review of digital rights perfomance at a dozen telecommunications companies located in ten different countries.

Move Over, Platforms: Telecoms Deserve Scrutiny on Digital Rights, Says Scorecard techpolicy.press/move-over-plat…
6/ On Friday, @atarkowski took a deep dive into what would be necessary to make Mastodon sustainable and improve the governance of the #Fediverse.

Priorities to Make the Fediverse Sustainable techpolicy.press/priorities-to-…
7/ You can sign up for the @techpolicypress newsletter here. techpolicy.press/newsletter/
8/ And subscribe to the podcast at any of your favorite podcast services. techpolicypress.captivate.fm/listen

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Dec 9
The way in which Bari Weiss has been provided access to dig through and publicize information from Twitter internal systems is very worrying from a privacy perspective. I hope FTC investigators are monitoring.

Re-upping: techpolicy.press/the-ftc-should…
Very concerning:
Recently departed Twitter engineer:
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Dec 4
Podcast! Scrutinizing “The Twitter Files”

I spoke to @David_Ingram, who covers tech for NBC News, and Mike Masnick (@mmasnick), editor of @techdirt, about Friday's disclosure of internal Twitter documents regarding an October 2020 New York Post story.
techpolicy.press/scrutinizing-t…
Twitter’s decision to intervene in the propagation of the October 14, 2020 story in the New York Post about then candidate Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, caused a furor at the time. techpolicy.press/scrutinizing-t…
Supporters of former President Donald Trump and some Republicans say this incident is proof that social media firms are biased against conservative interests, though the documents published to date do not support that claim. techpolicy.press/scrutinizing-t…
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Dec 2
Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen and WSJ Reporter Jeff Horwitz Reflect One Year On

At the @knightfdn's Informed conference, @FrancesHaugen sat down with @JeffHorwitz to discuss their relationship before and after the WSJ Facebook Files exposé:
techpolicy.press/facebook-whist…
"The story of Facebook’s negligence is about people dying in countries where Facebook is the internet," Haugen said. "I still earnestly believe that there are 10 or 20 million lives on the line in the next 20 years...." techpolicy.press/facebook-whist…
"That the Facebook disclosures were not about teenage mental health, they are about people dying in Africa because Facebook is the internet, and will be the internet for the next five to 10 to 20 years in Southeast Asia, in South America." techpolicy.press/facebook-whist…
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Dec 1
November 2022 U.S. Tech Policy Roundup

@kennedypatlan and Rachel Lau from @FreedmanTeam summarize developments in Washington and beyond for the month that was- including what to expect from the 118th Congress: techpolicy.press/november-2022-…
Advocates hope the lame duck Congress will act on antitrust bills, like the American Innovation and Choice Online Act and the Open App Markets Act.
There is also privacy legislation (some good, some bad, in my opinion):
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Nov 29
On news that Twitter will no longer enforce policies on Covid misinformation, reposting:

Researchers See Clear Link Between Twitter Misinformation and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Refusal techpolicy.press/researchers-se…
The Indiana University researchers got close to establishing a causal link between misinformation and vaccine hesitancy and refusal: Image
300-400 people are dying each day from Covid in this country, almost all preventable.
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Nov 27
"Protests erupted in cities and on campuses across China this weekend as frustrated and outraged citizens took to the streets in a stunning wave of demonstrations against the government’s “zero covid” policy and the leaders enforcing it."
washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/…
"Delete all you want. You can’t censor what is unsaid.”
“I felt like finally I could say what I’ve wanted to say.” nytimes.com/2022/11/27/wor…
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