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Julie Owono was recently quoted in leading French Magazine L'Express about a social media tax, proposed by a French MP, to fight against hate speech online

evelyn douek urges transparency and accountability in industry-wide content removal decisions

Dariusz Jemielniak on a Chinese app that tracks the spread of the coronavirus.

Ifeoma Ajunwa testifies in front of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor

Jonathan Zittrain argues that while platforms might consider labeling videos like these as manipulated, they should not remove them entirely.

Ethan Zuckerman at Cornell

Danielle Citron devised an eight-point plan for political campaigns to protect against fabricated video and audio

Taylor Lorenz shares her views on “Ok Boomer,” the “flattening” of politics by social media and the internet, and the causes of the United States’ internet regulation vacuum.

Ifeoma Ajunwa testified in Congress on automated hiring, workplace surveillance, and genetic testing as part of workplace wellness programs.

The video isn’t legally actionable and shouldn’t be taken down, said Jonathan Zittrain, but Facebook and Twitter should probably label the video

Mutale Nkonde spoke to Coindesk about surveillance capitalism and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

As the growing scale of facial recognition shows, more data can always be extracted.

Dragana Kaurin speaks to the problems that arise when law enforcement uses location data.

Elizabeth Renieris on what BIPA and SyRI-related developments tell us about the future of privacy

For those who want help finding out what’s true when it comes to the coronavirus, BKC affiliate Mary Minow says public libraries are a great resource.

The specificity of both Twitter and Facebook’s rules around disinformation leave room for known disinformation agents to work during elections, said Joan Donovan.

Don’t blame shadowy foreign hackers for the chaos in Iowa. Blame Shadow’s caucus app, says faculty associate Zeynep Tufekci.

Russell Newman joins Jasmine McNealy to dicuss his book, “The Paradoxes of Network Neutralities”

Award recognizes lasting achievements in innovative use of network-based information resources

Leonard Cortana on the inadequate response of the French media to racist incidents