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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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42:27

A Time for Reimagining

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/06/13

This episode features two segments that focus on reimagining our relationship to technology, and the ways in which it contributes to our reality.First up, we speak with JAZSALYN, an anti-disciplinary artist, curator and creative director and a graduate student in an MFA student in Parsons' Design + Technology program and one of the creators of black beyond , a platform making space for artists and activists to speculate alternate realities for Blackness.black beyond is hosting a virtual new media

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01:00:09

AI, People and Power: A Conversation with Kate...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/06/06

Artificial intelligence is perhaps the most hyped technology in the world. In today’s episode, we’re going to hear a discussion that invites the listener to think about how money, power and other troubling forces and ideas that shape our society are built into AI systems and the ways we think about deploying them.In May, theUniversity of Washington’sTech Policy LabandCenter for an Informed Publiccohosted a virtual book talk featuringKate Crawford, a leading scholar of the social implications of

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55:39

Countering Hate Speech and Extremism on Social Media

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/05/30

There are three parts in this week's episode. The first two reflect on the Christchurch Call Summit, a meeting of world leaders and tech executives to discuss efforts to police hate speech and extremism on social media. Moderated by Courtney Radsch, a member of the Tech Policy Press masthead, our guests include Paul Ash, the New Zealand Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Cyber and Digital and the Coordinator of the Christchurch Call; and Dia Kayyali, Associate Director for Advocacy at

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54:28

The Dark Side of Social Media

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/05/23

Today’s episode features two discussions on negative impacts of social media- including censorship of marginalized voices and dangers to kids.First, we talk with Thusiyan Nandakumar, an editor at the Tamil Guardian and Amarnath Amarasingam, a professor and extremism researcher at Queen’s University, who tell the story of how social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram areare censoring Tamil activists and other activists around the world who being targeted by governments.And second, we

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52:59

The Issue of Trust: Katherine Maher, Ethan Zuckerman...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/05/16

Today’s episode features a conversation hosted recently by the Digital Public Library of America, DPLA. The DPLA brings together many collections of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world on a shared platform.This DPLA Book Talk features a conversation on trust and the crisis faced by our institutions; the promise of the movements rising to challenge them; and the obstacles we must confront if we are to rebuild civic life and create meaningful

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01:39:48

The Facebook Oversight Board & Donald Trump

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/05/09

This episode features two segments focusing on the decision by the Facebook Oversight Board on Donald Trump’s account.First we hear a panel discussion hosted by Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center and moderated by Stanford Law professor Nathaniel Persily. The panel features two members of the Facebook Oversight board- Michael McConnell, director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center, and Julie Owono, an international human rights lawyer. The others on the panel include Marietje Schaake, international

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56:48

Technology & Democracy

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/05/02

First, we hear a couple of key exchanges from a Senate hearing last week that featured testimony on algorithms and amplification on social media from Facebook, YouTube and Twitter executives.Second, Yaël Eisenstat brings us an interview with Eileen Donahoe, the Executive Director of the Global Digital Policy Incubator at Stanford University, Cyber Policy Center to discuss the final report of the Task Force on US Strategy to Support Democracy and Counter Authoritarianism, a bipartisan group of

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01:06:43

AI & Regulation; Disinformation in the 2020 Election

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/04/25

The first interview is with Ryan Calo, professor at the University of Washington School of Law, founding co-director of the interdisciplinary UW Tech Policy Lab and the UW Center for an Informed Public. The interview took place shortly after the European Commission announced new proposed regulations on artificial intelligence.The second conversation is with Kate Starbird and Renée Diresta. Kate Starbird is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) and

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01:04:06

Julia Carrie Wong & Maria Ressa: Political...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/04/18

First up is Julia Carrie Wong, Senior technology reporter for the Guardian based in Silicon Valley. This week, she published a series of articles based on interviews and documents from Sophie Zhang, a Facebook whistleblower who came forward to reveal how the social media company has repeatedly allowed world leaders and politicians to use its platform to deceive the public or harass opponents.The second interview is with Maria Ressa. She is co-founder Rappler, the top digital only news site that

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01:19:27

AI & National Security; Fixing Social Media

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/04/11

In the first half, we talk with Lucy Suchman, a professor and expert on human computer interaction & warfare about a recent report commissioned by the United States Government about artificial intelligence and national security. We look at some of the unexamined premises for the report. In the second half, we listen to a panel discussion hosted by Betalab on how to build a better social media future featuring David Ryan Polgar, a Responsible Tech advocate and founder of All Tech Is Human; Nicole

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01:08:08

Polarization & social media; anti-Asian disinfo &...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/04/04

Our first segment features an interview with Chris Bail, a researcher who runs the Polarization Lab at Duke University. This week, Chris’s new book will hit book shelves. It’s called Breaking the Social Media Prism:How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing.The second is a conversation withVivian Chang, a civic engagement manager for the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO (APALA), about steps her organization is taking to confront disinformation and harassment in the communities it works

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01:35:15

Congress vs. Zuckerberg, Dorsey & Pichai

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/03/28

This week’s episode of The Sunday Show focuses onCongressional testimony on disinformation and extremism by Tech CEOs including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. Guests include Yaël Eisenstat (Betalab), Katie Paul (Tech Transparency Project) Evan Greer (Fight for the Future), Chris Gilliard (Harvard Shorenstein Center), and Fadi Quran (Avaaz).And, Tech Policy Press colleagues Romi Geller and Bryan Jones discuss news of the week.

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01:12:37

Social Media, Speech & Content Moderation at Scale

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/03/21

This episode features a discussion on the challenges of content moderation at scale with four great experts on the the key issues including Tarleton Gillespie, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University; Kate Klonick, Assistant Professor at Law at St. John's University Law School and an Affiliate Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School; Jameel Jaffer, the executive director

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01:04:12

Amazon & Inequality; Social Media & Regulation

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/03/14

In this episode we focus on the question of what should be done to constrain the dominance of the tech platforms, and to regulate the ways in which they control aspects of our economy, markets and the public sphere.First up, we hear from Alec MacGillis, a reporter for ProPublica that has just written a book that considers Amazon’s dominance and what it means for wealth of American cities and people called Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America.Then, we listen to a panel discussion from

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01:17:34

Technology & the Pandemic

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/03/07

This week we focus on the intersection of technology, media and the COVID-19 pandemic. The first segment is a discussion with Alexis Madrigal, a staff writer atThe Atlantic,a co-founder of the COVID Tracking Project,and the author ofPowering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. Then, we listen in on a panel discussion titled Privacy Impacts of Modern Contract Tracing for Future Pandemic Response that took place a the end of January during a day of discussion hosted by Santa Clara

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56:00

January 6th, Extremism & Deradicalization

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/02/28

This week's episode features a discussion hosted by the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab titled Reclaiming Reality: De-radicalization and Rehabilitation After the January 6 Attack that includes Amarnath Amarasingam, an Assistant Professor in the School of Religion at Queen’s University,Cristina López G, a Senior Research Analyst with Data and Society,QAnon Anonymousco-hostTravis View, and the DFRLab’s Research Fellow,Jared Holt.We also hear related Congressional testimony from Emily

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01:02:00

Australia vs. Facebook & Free Speech in the Digital Age

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/02/21

First, we discuss Facebook’s response to an Australian law that would compel search and social media platforms to pay news organizations for linking to their content with guest Chris Zappone, Digital Foreign Editor at Australia’s The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. Second, we listen in on a panel discussion on free speech in the digital age hosted by Betaworks Studios as part of its Betalab: Fix The Internet program. Moderated by Betalab Researcher-in-Residence Yaël Eisenstat, includes David Kaye, a

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01:06:22

Fixing the Public Sphere: Ali Velshi, Karen Kornbluh...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/02/14

This week's episode features a discussion about technology, democracy and the public sphere with Ali Velshi, the MSNBC Anchor of the show named after him and an NBC Correspondent; Karen Kornbluh, director ofthe German Marshall Fund’sDigital Innovation Democracy Initiative; and Emily Bell,Founding Director of theTow Centerfor Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School.Plus, we talk about news at the intersection of technology and policy with Bryan Jones and Romi Geller.

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01:12:50

Social Media: Teens, Violence and Section 230

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/02/07

Interviews with Caitlin Elsaesser, a clinical social worker and researcher at the University of Connecticut who studies the connections between youth violence and social media and Jeff Kosseff, a professor of cybersecurity law in the United States Naval Academy's Cyber Science Department and author of the book The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet- A history of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Also featuring Bryan Jones, cofounder of Tech Policy Press, and Romi Geller, Tech

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