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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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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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57:09

Tech, Democracy and Market Power

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/12/12

We’ve got two segments today. First up, Alexandra Reeve Givens, President and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) discusses last week’s Summit for Democracy and what it accomplished. Second, we speak with Marshall Steinbaum, an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah about market and monopoly power, tech platforms and antitrust.

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39:42

An AI Strategy for New York City

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2021/12/05

In October, New York City launched its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy. A 116-page document, the strategy says "Like software itself, AI will touch virtually every area of life in the years ahead, including everything from basic scientific research to the operation of various products and services, and its impacts will be felt from a personal to a societal scale. For these reasons, the City of New York believes that an ecosystem approach grounded in digital rights is necessary to maximize

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01:07:51

Information Disorder and Who Profits From It

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/11/28

Today, we’ve got two conversations about the problem of mis- and disinformation.In the first segment, Courtney Radsch, a Tech Policy Press contributor and board member, speaks with Vivian Schiller, Executive Director of Aspen Digital, a part of the Aspen Institute that just released the final report of the Commission on Information Disorder. And in the second segment, Justin Hendrix speaks with Karen Hao, senior AI editor at MIT Technology Review about her year reporting on how the business model of

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01:22:10

Platform Integrity, Platform Democracy

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/11/21

Today, we’ve got two separate but related conversations about social media and how it intersects with democracy and society.In the first segment, we’re going to hear from Jeff Allen and Sahar Massachi, two former Facebook employees who are the founders of the Integrity Institute, a new nonprofit organization. They believe one solution to the problems on social media is the development of a community of integrity professionals with experience at a variety of social media platforms that can come

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54:33

The Tech Worker Handbook & the Filter Bubble...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/11/14

There are two segments in this week's show:First- Ifeoma Ozoma is the Founder and Principal of Earthseed, a consulting firm advising individuals, organizations, and companies on tech accountability, public policy and health misinformation. A tech policy expert, Ifeoma is a co-sponsor of the Silenced No More Act. The legislation, authored by CA State Senator Connie Leyva and recently signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom, allows everyone in California to share information about discrimination or

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01:17:01

Holding Big Tech Accountable for Disinformation and...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/11/07

The first segment in this episode is a conversation with Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Democrat representing Illinois’ 9th district. Representative Schakowsky serves as Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Chair of the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has called the tech CEOs to testify in recent months and introduced proposed legislation.The second is a discussion on the threat of big tech and disinformation to social movements that took

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49:54

A Conversation with the Oversight Board's John...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/10/31

This is Part 3 of three special episodes focused on Facebook in the wake of the revelations in what has come to be known as the Facebook Papers, reports based on a trove of documents brought forward by whistleblower Frances Haugen. On Thursday- the same day Facebook announced its name change to Meta- Tech Policy Press had the chance to speak with two members of the Oversight Board, the entity the company set up to provide external oversight to its content moderation decisions and to help it make

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44:06

The Facebook Papers: Conversations with Jeff Horwitz...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/10/29

This is Part 2 of four special episodes focused on the revelations in what has come to be known as the Facebook papers, reports based on a trove of documents brought forward by whistleblower Frances Haugen. In the first part, we heard from the Executive Editor of The Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance, who wrote about the challenge Facebook poses to democracy. In this episode, I had a chance to catch up with two people- first, Jeff Horwitz, a technology reporter at the Wall Street Journal and one of the

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31:26

The Facebook Papers: A Conversation with Adrienne...

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2021/10/27

This week’s revelations in what has come to be known as the Facebook papers- reports based on a trove of documents brought forward by whistleblower Frances Haugen- are keeping Facebook and its senior executives at the top of news feeds around the world. In the avalanche of coverage, one particular piece stood out to me-one written by Adrienne LaFrance, executive editor ofThe Atlantic, and a writer and observer that I regard has having a keen insight into issues at the intersection of technology and

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