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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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43:46

The Perils of Amazon Ring

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/10/24

Earlier this month, Evan Selinger, a professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology, published a paper with co-author Darrin Durant in the journal Science as Culture titled Amazon’s Ring: Surveillance as a Slippery Slope. Last month, a must-read profile of Chris Gilliard by Will Oremus for The Washington Post also started out with concerns about Ring, before detailing Gilliard’s perspective and background. I invited Evan and Chris to join me to discuss their writings on Ring, and

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01:19:21

Seeing Inside the Algorithms

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/10/17

This is a two part show- first, a discussion about how to make sure independent researchers have access to the data from technology platforms; and second, a book talk with the author of How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News: Exploring the Impacts of Social Media, Deepfakes, GPT-3 and More.In the wake of the revelations brought forward by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, there is a great deal of focus among lawmakers and regulators in many capitals to figure out how to see inside the

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35:14

Reconciling Social Media & Democracy, Part 5: Ramesh...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/10/16

On October 7th,Tech Policy Presshosted a mini-conference,Reconciling Social Media and Democracy. While various solutions to problems at the intersection of social media and democracy are under consideration, from regulation to antitrust action, some experts are enthusiastic about the opportunity to create a new social media ecosystem that relies less on centrally managed platforms like Facebook and more on decentralized, interoperable services and components.This fifth features Dr. Ramesh

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48:39

Reconciling Social Media & Democracy, Part 4: Tracy...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/10/16

On October 7th,Tech Policy Presshosted a mini-conference calledReconciling Social Media and Democracy. While various solutions to problems at the intersection of social media and democracy are under consideration, from regulation to antitrust action, some experts are enthusiastic about the opportunity to create a new social media ecosystem that relies less on centrally managed platforms like Facebook and more on decentralized, interoperable services and components.The fourth segment of the event

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30:27

Reconciling Social Media & Democracy, Part 3: Cory...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/10/16

On October 7th,Tech Policy Presshosted a mini-conference calledReconciling Social Media and Democracy. While various solutions to problems at the intersection of social media and democracy are under consideration, from regulation to antitrust action, some experts are enthusiastic about the opportunity to create a new social media ecosystem that relies less on centrally managed platforms like Facebook and more on decentralized, interoperable services and components.The third segment features Cory

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30:44

Reconciling Social Media & Democracy, Part 2: Joan...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/10/14

On October 7th,Tech Policy Presshosted a mini-conference calledReconciling Social Media and Democracy.While various solutions to problems at the intersection of social media and democracy are under consideration, from regulation to antitrust action, some experts are enthusiastic about the opportunity to create a new social media ecosystem that relies less on centrally managed platforms like Facebook and more on decentralized, interoperable services and components.The first discussion at the event

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01:27:39

Reconciling Social Media & Democracy, Part 1:...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/10/14

On October 7th,Tech Policy Presshosted a mini-conference calledReconciling Social Media and Democracy.While various solutions to problems at the intersection of social media and democracy are under consideration, from regulation to antitrust action, some experts are enthusiastic about the opportunity to create a new social media ecosystem that relies less on centrally managed platforms like Facebook and more on decentralized, interoperable services and components.The first discussion at the event

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38:11

Resisting Corporate Surveillance

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/10/10

The United Nations General Assembly just took place in New York. We get a report on it from Maya Plentz, who covers technology and innovation at the United Nations and its agencies, for The UN Brief,a subscription-based news platform.Then, we’re going to hear from Ari Ezra Waldman, a lawyer and sociologist, and Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University. He’s the author of Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power.

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33:34

A Whistleblower, Facebook, Social Media & Polarization

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/10/04

The relationship between Facebook and political polarization is in the spotlight. Frances Haugen, the whistleblower that took documents to the Wall Street Journal, Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission, appeared on CBS 60 Minutes Sunday night. “The version of Facebook that exists today is tearing our societies apart and causing ethnic violence around the world," she said.Yet Facebook executives such as Nick Clegg and Mark Zuckerberg take pains to disavow the connection between social

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58:24

Facebook, Instagram and Young People's Well-Being

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/10/03

Most Tech Policy Press podcast listeners will by now be well familiar with the Facebook Files, a series of Wall Street Journal articles revealing internal research and information from Facebook that show the company aware of a variety of serious problems on its platforms that affect people’s lives and our politics. This week, Antigone Davis, Facebook’s Head of Safety, was brought before the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security to discuss the

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01:28:22

The Bad News on Internet Freedom

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/09/26

We’ve got a three part jumbo show today. First, we’ll dive in to the results of the annual Freedom on the Net report from Freedom House with Allie Funk, Senior Research Analyst for Technology and Democracy at Freedom House. Then, we’re going to look at one place where internet freedoms are at risk- Canada, where a new proposal to regulate online harms looms- with Michael Geist, Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa and Daphne Keller,

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01:03:18

Facebook Fuels the Fire

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/09/19

On Monday, September 13th, the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights published a report titled Fueling the Fire: How Social Media Intensifies U.S. Political Polarization – And What Can Be Done About It, written by the Center’s deputy director, Paul Barrett, research fellow Grant Sims, and Tech Policy Press editor Justin Hendrix.Then on Wednesday, September 15th, the Wall Street Journal published an article in a series of exclusives, based on leaked internal documents from Facebook, with the

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27:17

Rep. Lori Trahan on Instagram, teens and mental health

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/09/17

Today, I spoke with Representative Lori Trahan, the Congresswoman for the third district in Massachussetts, to get her reaction to a disturbing report in the Wall Street Journal about internal research at Instagram related to mental health impacts of that social media service, particularly on teens.On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal published its headline, “Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show.” The Journal’s Georgia Wells, Jeff Horwitz and Deepa Seetharaman

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41:38

What Democratic Values Are We Trying to Protect?

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/09/12

In August, researchers Bridget Barrett and Daniel Kreiss from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media joined with Katharine (Kate) Dommett of the University of Sheffield’s Department of Politics and International Relations to publish research in the journal Policy & Internet that took a hard look at how democratic values express themselves in technology policy documents in the UK and the US in a paper titled, The capricious relationship between

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41:38

Algorithms and the Plight of the Gig Worker

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/09/05

Tomorrow is Labor Day. This week, we hear from someone who studies gig workers and the systems and companies that manage them. Diana Enriquez is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Princeton University. She studies labor, technology, informal economies, and law, particularly in the US and Latin America.This interview with Diana is about two papers she helped author in recent months-Pre-Automation: Insourcing and Automating the Gig Economy, published in the journal Sociologica earlier this year and

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01:08:12

Interviews with Cindy Gallop and Carissa Véliz

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/08/29

This episode features two interviews. The first looks at the struggles of those in the sex and sextech industries to get access to capital and to create products and services that respect users and creators, and the second considers the state of privacy and its relationship to power.OnlyFans, a UK-based site that built a billion dollar business enabling creators to post and get paid for sexually explicit material, announced this month that as of October 1st it would no longer permit anything much

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01:04:28

The Fall of Afghanistan; The Tech & Democracy Movement

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/08/22

This week, we have two segments. The first is a conversation with Emerson T. Brooking, a resident senior fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council, about the fall of Kabul and the rise of the Taliban, and the role that digital and social media have and will continue to play there.And second, we turn to a discussion I had with Emerson’s Atlantic Council college, Rose Jackson, and the Institute for Security Technology’s Vera Zakem, about the nascent pro-democracy effort

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48:44

Holding Tech Accountable: An interview with Roger...

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/08/15

This episode features an interview with Roger McNamee. His official bio at Elevation Partners, an investment firm, says that since 2017 he has been involved in ”a campaign to trigger a national conversation about the dark side of social media“. He is the author of a book, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, published by HarperCollins in 2019, that has an account of his role as an investor and advisor to the company and his ultimate recognition of the harms it causes at scale. To many

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48:21

Talking About An Ugly Truth

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/08/08

This week, we have two interviews. First we hear from two researchers in Britain- Chico Carmargo and Felix Simon- who recently published a paper that takes a critical look at a term that has been often used in recent months to describe a stew of problems in the information ecosystem- the term “infodemic”.Then, our feature interview this week is with the authors of the bestselling book AN UGLY TRUTH: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination- New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang. I

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46:54

Can social media algorithms help depolarize society?

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/08/01

This week's show features two interviews. The first is with Albert Fox Cahn, theSurveillance Technology Oversight Project's (S.T.O.P.) founder and executive director, about a column he wrote in Wired magazine about problems with the twitter verification process that disadvantage activists. And second, I talk with Jonathan Stray, a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence at the University of California at Berkeley about whether social media can help depolarize

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