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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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01:03:46

Surveillance and the Future of Tech

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/07/25

This week's episode features two segments. The first conversation is a conversation focused on the rise of the global surveillance industry with Marietje Schaake, the international policy director at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center. We consider what the revelations of the Pegasus Project about the Israeli firm NSO group means for democracies. The second segment considers Chinese tech in the world, looking at how the Chinese Communist Party uses technology to facilitate political

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55:22

Social Media, the FBI & January 6

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/07/18

This episode features two interviews. The first focuses on extremism, law enforcement and social media monitoring, and the second on what news that an AI voice clone was used to generate segments of a new Anthony Bourdain documentary tells us about the future of synthetic media.The January 6 insurrection was preceded by weeks of online promotion and planning- including from former President Donald Trump, who told his supporters the event would be wild. What should the FBI have known in advance, and

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37:45

Digital Communications Technology & Collective Behavior

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2021/07/11

Social media, message apps and other digital communications technologies restructure the ways in which information flows, and thus how humans interact with one another, how they make sense of the world and how they come to consensus on how to deal with problems.Now, more than a dozen researchers at multiple universities who study technology, behavior and complex systems believe questions about the impact of communications technology on collective behavior should be regarded as a “crisis discipline,”

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56:32

Social Media & Real World Violence

The Tech Policy Press Podcast ·

2021/06/27

This episode focuses on issues of identity, extremism, and violence, and the role that technology plays in societies in conflict.First up, we speak to Hakeem Jefferson, a political scientist at Stanford University. Jefferson describes the underlying grievance driving the right in the United States- white supremacy- and how it combined with demagoguery, disinformation, and the ability to organize at scale on social media to produce the violent assault on the Capitol on January 6th.Then, we speak to

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01:08:25

Hard Problems: Algorithms & Antitrust

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2021/06/20

This episode is in two parts. Both get at hard problems in how to deal with technology companies- first, around the regulation of algorithmic amplification on social media, and second, around competition. On algorithms, we hear from Daphne Keller, who directs the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford's Cyber Policy Center. Daphne recently published an essay, Amplification and Its Discontents: Why regulating the reach of online content is hard, on the website of the Knight First Amendment

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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

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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

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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

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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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