Attn California and Australia: our new paper evaluating what happened to the media ecosystem when meta blocked news in Canada. Larger report with cross platform effects to come. Anya Schiffrin Gabby Miller emily bell #ijf2024

Wow! House E&C just announced a major legislative hearing with just about every big data privacy and kids' online safety bill under consideration for next week

A useful update on the DSA's data access provisions from Tech Policy Press' Gabby Miller

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Great crash course coverage from Gabby Miller at Tech Policy Press on the current state of two important LGBTQ safety protections that GLAAD's Social Media Safety Program advocates as best practices for the industry. techpolicy.press/basic-lgbtq-sa…

Happening TOMORROW 🗓️

Five tech CEOs (Discord, Meta, Snap, TikTok, X) will testify in front of the Senate on their companies' efforts to protect children on their platforms.

Recommended reading from Gabby Miller 📖 to get up to speed on the issues: loom.ly/wuudonY

TikTok just pushed to my phone an exclusive #parentsoftiktok newsletter sign up — just days before a Senate hearing where tech execs will be grilled re: their child online safety efforts, including TikTok.

Also looks like the initiative isn’t even new, launched Oct ‘23…

Last month I discovered what turned out to be dozens of Facebook groups, geared toward children, beset by swarms of sexually explicit and predatory content. I did everything I could to get them taken down, & failed. This is my story. techpolicy.press/child-endanger…

New writeup on our recent paper on abortion activists' folk theories on platform governance by Gabby Miller from @TechPolicyPress ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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US Senate AI ‘Insight Forum’ Tracker - Gabby Miller with updates and reflections on forum 7:
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This month, the first monopoly case in 25 years, US v. Google, concluded.

I was in court as Google with the tacit help of an obsequious judge tried to privatize our public court system. Here’s how “the trial of the century” turned into “the secret trial” prospect.org/justice/2023-1…

The seventh 'AI Insight Forum' hosted by Chuck Schumer will take place on November 29, with a focus on transparency, explainability, IP, and copyright. Staff writer Gabby Miller has details on who is on the invite list on the AI Insight Forum Tracker: techpolicy.press/us-senate-ai-i…

I wrote about how the first wave of the DSA's VLOP/VLOSE transparency reports are difficult to compare, and this lack of clarity and standardization limits their usefulness, for Tech Policy Press:

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Futurism caught Sports Illustrated publishing AI stories — with fake author profile pages and all. We went to them with it, and they wiped...all of it. futurism.com/sports-illustr…

Announcing the Inaugural Tech Policy Press Fellowship Cohort

In 2024, Tech Policy Press will support seven part-time fellows from around the world exploring issues and ideas at the intersection of technology and democracy. Meet the fellows:
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Woah. Watched this panel - to discuss state AGs child harm lawsuits filed vs Facebook - hosted by/with three big tech / Facebook-funded orgs (ITIF, Chamber of Progress, NetChoice). They invited a Gen-Z activist who absolutely owned them (watch in full). My eight highlights. /1

Tech Policy Press staff writer Gabby Miller shares details from inside Senate AI Insight Forums 5 (Democracy & Elections) and 6 (Privacy & Liability):
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'Very large' tech platforms and search engines filed their first transparency reports to remain compliant under the DSA, reports Gabby Miller. techpolicy.press/tracking-the-f…

Updates posted to Gabby Miller's Tech Policy Press US Senate AI ‘Insight Forum’ Tracker this morning include participant lists for Forum 5, on Democracy & Elections, and Forum 6, on Privacy & Liability, both hosted today. techpolicy.press/us-senate-ai-i…

Tech Policy Press staff writer Gabby Miller has new details from attendees at this week's AI Insight Forums hosted by Chuck Schumer, along with a tracker of all attendees to the series and available documents in the US Senate AI Insight Forum Tracker:
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