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The Tech Policy Press Podcast

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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32:55

Spotify, Substack, Misinformation and Grift: A...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/03/17

The past couple of months has seen controversies over misinformation, anti-vaccine and racist material, and how best to moderate content on online publishing platforms such as Spotify and Substack.To talk more about these issues of speech, editorial intervention, content moderation, and implications for democracy, I invited two expert commentators, Bridget Todd and Elizabeth Spiers, to the Tech Policy Press podcast.Bridget Todd is the creator and host of the award-winning technology and culture

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42:38

A Conversation with Mary Anne Franks

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/03/13

Dr. Mary Anne Franks, Professor of Law and Michael R. Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair at the University of Miami School of Law, is an expert on the intersection of civil rights and technology. She is an Affiliated Faculty member of the University of Miami Department of Philosophy and an Affiliate Fellow of the Yale Law School Information Society Project, and author of an award-winning book,The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speechfrom Stanford Press, published in

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59:35

State Media, Social Media, and the Conflict in Ukraine

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/03/06

In this podcast, we’re going to listen in on a panel discussion hosted by the Stanford Cyber Policy Center on State Media, Social Media, and the Conflict in Ukraine. Convened by Nate Persily, Co-director of the Cyber Policy Center and James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, the panel considers the moves taken in recent days by governments and technology platforms, and the implications for the ways state-sponsored media and information will be regulated in the future. Guests

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43:46

Moves To Ban Kremlin Propaganda Outlets Evoke WWII...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/03/05

Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, governments’ and private companies’ moves to limit or ban Russian state media have rapidly spread from the European Union, to the United States, South Africa, Australia and elsewhere. The cascade of developments harkens back to the World War II period, when governments regarded German propaganda as a weapon of war and used tools such as short wave radio to reach citizens behind enemy lines to penetrate the Axis power’s internal information

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41:38

Technology Is Not Neutral: A Conversation with...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/02/27

Upstream from concerns about policy, we enter the realm of ethics- and that is the subject of today’s podcast. Our guest is Stephanie Hare, the author of Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics, published on February 22nd in London Publishing Partnership’sPerspectivesseries. The book was edited by Diane Coyle.Stephanie Hare is a researcher and broadcaster with an expertise in technology, politics and history. As part of the BBC Expert Women programme, she often shares her

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41:34

Ukraine, Disinformation, Propaganda and the Platforms

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/02/26

In this special episode of the podcast, we’re going to consider questions related to disinformation and the information ecosystem, and the role of the tech platforms in this deadly moment.The first guest is Clint Watts, a national security contributor for NBC News and MSNBC and author ofMessing With The Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians andFake News. His research and writing focuses on terrorism, counterterrorism, social media influence and Russian

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29:45

A Look Inside Facebook's African Sweatshop

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/02/20

Facebook vaunts its multibillion dollar investment in content moderation in advertisements and every time a senior executive is asked to address the problems of mis- and disinformation, hate speech, abuse, bigotry and other violations on its platforms. But what does that investment look like at the last mile? Who does the work? What are the conditions they face?Today we hear from Billy Perrigo, a journalist at Time magazine, who tells us of the plight of outsourced content moderation workers in

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28:46

Ukraine, Russia, and the 21st Century Permanent...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/02/17

When Peter Pomerantsev was working as a documentary producer in Russia, he observed how Vladimir Putin employed propaganda to spread such deep doubt and division that meaningful political debate became impossible. Since then, he has written two books on the subject– Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, which chronicled Putin’s strategy and tactics; and This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, which looked at similar phenomena employed

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40:29

Canada's Trucker Protests: Online and Offline

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2022/02/15

To discuss the Canadian trucker protests and the relationship between topics networked activism, social media manipulation, extremism and law enforcement- as well as the potential for Canadian convoys to inspire similar actions in the US, where right wing media personalities have embraced the idea- we speak with two experts:Joan Donovan, Ph.D., the Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.Amarnath Amarasingam, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the School of

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57:32

Conversations on the EARN IT Act and Tech Exceptionalism

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/02/13

The first segment in this episode focuses on the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act, known as the EARN IT Act. Nathalie Maréchal, Ph.D., Senior Policy and Partnerships Manager atRanking Digital Rights, wrote in Tech Policy Press about what motivates her opposition to the legislation, and she joined the podcast to share her perspective.The second segment takes on the idea of tech exceptionalism. Yaël Eisenstat, a Future of Democracy Fellow at the Berggruen

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46:02

Trust and Safety in Virtual Worlds

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/02/06

Warning: this episode features discussion of sexual assault and rape.This week’s podcast has two segments. We’re going to hear from Vice News reporter Carter Sherman about her story from last week titled “Woman Says She Was ‘Virtually Gang-Raped’ in Facebook's Metaverse,” detailing an incident that represents an early test of Facebook’s ability create a safe environment in its virtual world. Then, I speak with Dr. Carly Kocurek, a cultural historian specializing in the study of new media

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34:56

Reflecting on Sleeping Giants

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2022/01/30

Earlier this year, Matt Rivitz announced he planned to step aside from Sleeping Giants, an activist campaign launched five years ago to address the flow of advertising revenues to sites that promote hate speech and disinformation. The ad tech ecosystem is exceptionally complex- and the incentives in place lend themselves to waste and fraud, and to large sums of money flowing to sites that promote questionable content often without the knowledge of the people spending that money. In 2016, Rivitz and

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19:48

Confronting the Cybersecurity Threat in Ukraine

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/01/26

Ukraine has long been known as a "live fire" environment in cybersecurity circles, but with Russian aggression intensifying there are concerns that cyberattacks may signal the beginning of a broader conflict following a string of attacks in the last week that targeted Ukrainian government and private sector websites.The United States Department of Homeland Security has also warned that Russia may target "US networks—from low-level denials-of-service to destructive attacks targeting critical

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42:27

What's Next for the Digital Services Act?

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/01/25

Last week, the European Parliament gave initial approval to the Digital Services Act, which contains a set of regulations that will have major implications for tech platforms, including on how they moderate content and on their business models. This spring, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union will debate the details of the legislation before voting on a final version.To learn more about what is at stake and where the DSA is in the process, I spoke with Mathias Vermeulen,

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01:12:20

Accountability after the Facebook Papers

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/01/23

This episode features two segments. First, we catch up with one reporter who has read every single one of the documents leaked by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen: Shoshana Wodinsky, a staff reporter at Gizmodo covering consumer privacy and tech policy.Shoshana is part of a team that is preparing to release the papers to the public.And then, we hear from three lawyers- including one former Massachusetts attorney general- that were involved in the legal actions that led to the Big Tobacco Master

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46:13

A Fact Check Draws Fire; Closing the Digital Divide

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/01/16

There are two segments in this episode. First, we hear from Jay Van Bavel, an Associate Professor of Psychology & Neural Science at New York University, about social media, misinformation and collective behavior following a week in which he was brigaded by far right and anti-vaccine personalities for calling in to question the veracity of claims made in Joe Rogan’s popular podcast. And second, we catch up with Trooper Sanders, the CEO of Benefits Data Trust, about new broadband benefits intended

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27:11

Extremism, Media & Tech One Year After January 6,...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/01/09

In the second of two episodes on extremism, media and tech one year after the insurrection at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, we’re going to hear from two individuals who are working to deprive the racists and violent extremists who seek to radicalize Americans and attack our democracy.The Check My Ads Institute is an independent watchdog organization that seeks to reform the digital ad tech industry from inside. At its website, checkymads.org, it says "we're holding the surveillance

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52:47

Extremism, Media & Tech One Year After January 6, Part I

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/01/09

This week, the United States observed the first anniversary of the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. In this episode, we’re going to look at the extremist movement in the United States and how the media and technology environment plays a role in it. We’re going to hear first from Jared Holt, a resident fellow at Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), who will walk us through the findings of his latest report, After the Insurrection: How Domestic Extremists Adapted

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01:06:34

Reducing Harm on Social Media

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2022/01/02

This first episode of 2022 features a discussion hosted by the Center for Social Media and Politics at NYU (CSMaP) that gathered academic, policy, and tech experts to discuss ideas about how to make social media a safer and more civil place.The panel was expertly moderated byJane Lytvynenko, a Senior Research Fellow at the Technology and Social Change Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and included:Niousha Roshani, Deputy Director of the

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58:52

Race, Technology and Policy

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/12/19

This episode focuses on the intersection of race, technology and policy.First, we hear from Carmen Scurato, Suher Adi and Jacquelyn Mason- members of the Disinfo Defense League, which calls itself a network of intersectional organizations fighting disinformation that affects communities of color- about the League’s new policy platform. And second, we speak with two researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life- Daniel Kreiss and

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