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Tech Policy Press

Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. You can find us at https://techpolicy.press/, where you can join the newsletter.

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36:14

Responding to Climate Disinformation: A Conversation...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/06/11

The latest reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) do not mince words. They say that “climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives of billions of people.” The quality of the public discourse on climate issues plays a role. A reportreleased by the IPCC in Februarysays that the “[r]hetoric and misinformation on climate change and the deliberate undermining of science have contributed to misperceptions of the scientific

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45:26

Social Media and Vaccine Misinformation

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/06/05

Even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to simmer, there is a good amount of science emerging about the relationship between the information environment and vaccine uptake. Today we’ll hear from two researchers from different disciplines about their work on social media and vaccine misinformation. First up is John AlexanderBryden, Executive Director of the Observatory onSocial MediaatIndianaUniversity, with whom I discuss the results of some recent research his team had conducted on the problem. And

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26:51

Do We Really Want Sanitized Platforms?

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/06/02

When it comes to content moderation and the regulation of harmful content on social media, there are various metaphors at play for how to think about doing it. One that we’ve explored on this podcast in the past is to see it as a form of administration, or what legal scholar evelyn douek calls the “rough online analogue of offline judicial adjudication of speech rights, with legislative-style substantive rules being applied over and over again to individual pieces of content by a hierarchical

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40:34

A Dictator's Son Wins in the Philippines

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2022/05/29

This week the Philippine Congress declared Ferdinand Marcos Jr. the winner of the recent election, confirming that he will become the country's next president. Marcos, know by his nickname “Bongbong,” is the son of the late dictator and kleptocrat with the same name, who was president from 1965-1986. Marcos Sr. declared martial law in 1972, a year before his second term was to come to an end, ushering in years of brutality, oppression and poverty in the Philippines.To learn more about the role of

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01:04:40

Charting the Future of Tech Accountability

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/05/25

For the past six years, an independent research program at New America called Ranking Digital Rights has evaluated the policies and practices of some of the world’s largest technology and telecom firms, producing a dataset that reveals their shortcomings with respect to human rights obligations. Ranking Digital Rights evaluates more than 300 aspects of each company it ranks that fall broadly into three categories: governance, freedom of expression, and privacy.Following the release of this year’s

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43:41

Is Web3 the Answer? A Conversation with Gilad Edelman

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2022/05/22

The June cover story for Wired magazine is on a movement in tech that many see as having the potential to rewire not just the internet, but to produce a fundamentally more democratic and equitable society. The story is titled “Paradise at the Crypto Arcade: Inside the Web3 Revolution,” and I had the chance to speak to its author, Wired senior writer Gilad Edelman.

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37:22

Rohingya Refugees Seek Reparations from Facebook

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2022/05/15

UN human rights experts that chronicled Facebook’s role in spreading hate speech in Myanmar concluded that it played a “determining role” in the genocide against the Rohingya people. Facebook’s own investigationinto the situation also found fault with the company’s practices, and made various recommendations for how it should develop a human rights strategy to protect against such things from happening again.Today, we’re going to hear from a refugee from the violence, who is with other Rohingya

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39:29

Rethinking Far-Right Online Radicalization

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2022/05/13

Researchers Alice Marwick, Benjamin Clancy, and Katherine Furl this week released Far-Right Online Radicalization: A Review of the Literature, an analysis of "cross-disciplinary work on radicalization to better understand the present concerns around online radicalization and far-right extremist and fringe movements." In order to learn more about the issues explored in the review, I spoke to Marwick, who is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and

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46:06

The Power of the Platforms with Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/05/08

Over the past year of publishing this podcast, we’ve looked again and again at the issue of the power of tech platforms in society. Now, there is a book titled The Power of the Platforms: Shaping Media and Society, by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Sarah Anne Ganter, just published at the end of last month by Oxford University Press.Justin Hendrix had the chance to catch up with one of the authors about what they learned in writing the book, and the complexities of the subject.

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40:18

Facebook's Legal Woes

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/05/01

If you take the time to look at the SEC filings for Meta Platforms, Inc. - the company that operates Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp - you will find various disclosures about its ongoing legal battles.Taken together they reveal patterns, particularly in how the company is led. To get an update on some of the key cases under consideration, from Cambridge Analytica to competition, I spoke with one particularly keen observer of Meta: Jason Kint, the CEO of Digital Content Next.

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31:28

Barack Obama's Speech, Elon Musk's Antics

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/04/28

Last week at Stanford University, former President Barack Obama gave akeynote addressat a Stanford University Cyber Policy Center symposium entitled “Challenges to Democracy in the Digital Information Realm." This week, many of the issues Obama discussed were brought into sharp relief when it was announced that billionaire Elon Musk will acquire Twitter for the price of $44 billion dollars.For reactions to Obama's speech- and to Musk’s antics- I spoke withDavid Kaye, Professor of Law at UC Irvine

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01:06:00

Worldcoin: Where Techno-Optimism Meets...

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2022/04/24

There is a growing literature and practice around how to equitably collaborate with traditionally marginalized communities to build better technology. A pair of investigative reports into Worldcoin’s launch may well serve as the basis for an instructive case study in what not to do.The first report, by Richard Nieva and Aman Sethi at BuzzFeed News, was published April 5th. It’s titled Inside Worldcoin’s Globe-Spanning, Eyeball-Scanning, Free Crypto Giveaway: The Sam Altman–founded company Worldcoin

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31:06

Nina Jankowicz on How to Be a Woman Online

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2022/04/21

In the opening to her book, How to Be A Woman Online, Surviving Abuse and Harassment and How to Fight Back, Nina Jankowicz crafts an allegory of a woman going about her day, encountering creepy and increasingly threatening men in public.It recounts a morning commute on a cloudless morning, but things quickly get dark. The woman endures various encounters: at a coffee shop, on the metro, ultimately at her office. It gets ugly. And yet the point of the story is, this kind of behavior is perpetual on

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35:28

The Privacy Imperative: Nathalie Maréchal & Matthew...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/04/20

Privacy is one of the fundamental issues in tech policy. And yet, in the United States progress on this issue has been elusive at the federal level, even as Europe has forged ahead with its General Data Protection Regulation or (GDPR) and now the Digital Markets Act, which will reinforce the privacy protections afforded EU citizens under GPDR with new provisions. And yet there are bills before Congress that could change things in the U.S.- such as the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act, which was

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56:59

One Man's Outsized Influence on Facebook- and the World

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/04/17

In this episode we hear an account of the prominent role that one Facebook executive has played in US and global politics, making many key decisions that, over the years, have literally been engineered into Facebook and its polices. Our guest is Benjamin Wofford, the author of a WIRED cover story titled The Infinite Reach of Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s Man in Washington: How one man came to rule political speech on Facebook, command one of the largest lobbies in DC, and guide Zuck through disaster—and

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25:17

Digital Crime Scenes: A Conversation with Afsaneh Rigot

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2022/04/12

Social media tools developed in Silicon Valley can be used for illiberal purposes, often putting the most vulnerable groups at risk.Afsaneh Rigotis a researcher and advocate concerned with issues of law, technology, LGBTQ, refugee and human rights. A senior researcher at ARTICLE 19 with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa, an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center and an advisor at the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard, Afsaneh is the author of the recently published report, Digital Crime Scenes:

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42:47

Humanity's Big Bet on Artificial Intelligence: A...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/04/10

It might appear that many political and government leaders have come to regard AI as a kind of panacea, right at the moment when the world needs one most. The third and final installment of the sixth UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report was published Monday: UN Secretary General António Guterres called the report "a litany of broken promises" and "a file of shame, cataloging the empty pledges that put us firmly on track towards an unlivable world." Some leaders appear to be betting

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30:21

Critical Perspectives on Ethics in Technology

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/04/07

Last year, the Journal of Social Computing published a Special Issue on the subject of Technology Ethics in Action. The special issue was the product of the Ethical Tech Working Group at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, which was cofounded by Mary Gray and Kathy Pham. The ideas in the special issue span a range of critical and interdisciplinary perspectives, with essay titles ranging from “Creating Technology Worthy of the Human Spirit” to “Connecting Race to Ethics

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29:59

Tech Reform Battle Heats Up in U.S. Capitol

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/04/05

Proponents and opponents of measures to reform Big Tech are busy this spring on Capitol Hill, and the fight over proposed antitrust regulation, in particular, is heating up in the US Capitol.In this episode we’ll hear two short interviews that provide a window into the effort to influence lawmakers.The first segment is with Drew Harwell, a technology reporter for The Washington Post who shared the byline on a story last week on a campaign by Meta, the company that operates Facebook and Instagram, to

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46:10

Ukraine May Mark a Turning Point in Documenting War...

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2022/04/03

If there is to be any accountability for Russian war crimes in Ukraine, it will requires carefully gathered evidence. The collection and preservation of digital media and other evidentiary material in Ukraine is a massive undertaking. It is being met by brave Ukrainian officials and local civil society groups operating in besieged cities and towns, as well as by an international coalition of human rights, open source intelligence and digital forensics researchers. This loose coalition is drawing

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