Platformer
Casey Newton
X’s reverse eternal September
Why the onetime global town square now feels more like a clubhouse
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T&S News
Tech Policy Press
Multiple Polls Find Most Americans Think AI is Moving Too Fast
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Tech Policy Press
AI Governance Needs an Internet-Style Network, Not a Global Overseer
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Katie Harbath
How I'm Marketing Disrupting Politics
With the publishing industry changing so fast, I’m trying different ways to get the word out about my book. Here’s my strategy and what I’m finding so far.
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Tech Policy Press
Why Multistakeholder Action Matters More than Ever for Trust & Safety
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Tech Policy Press
India’s GDPR-Inspired Privacy Law Leaves State Power Unchecked
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Everything in Moderation
Ben Whitelaw
Social Reckoning is media literacy with a $30m budget
The critics don’t love the new Aaron Sorkin movie. Not that it really matters, that’s not the point of it.
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Tech Policy Press
India’s SIR Voter Purge Shows Digital Authoritarianism in Action
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Tech Policy Press
Spirit Airlines Is Selling Its Workers’ Data. That Can’t Fly.
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Tech Policy Press
AI Governance Is Being Decided Now, and the Public Isn’t in the Room
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Mark Scott
Postcard from Vilnius: FIMI FOMO
A conference in Lithuania became the frontline in how Washington and EU capitals drastically differ on approaches toward foreign interference
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Now Safe for Work
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Tech Policy Press
Natasha Singer Details Tech’s Grip on Public Schools
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Tech Policy Press
Steve Feldstein on Bytes, Bullets, Blood and Borders
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Vys
Vyanams Strategies (VYS)
Long weekend musings: What Guicciardini would make of children and AI
A Renaissance diplomat’s private notebook, and what it teaches us about how companies, governments and advocates handle children’s use of AI
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech
Mike Masnick & Ben WhitelawPodcast
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Become a Ctrl-Alt-Speech supporter to get extended episodes of the podcast plus the chance to submit stories for us to cover. In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover: The Official Sonic Discord Server’s Launch Went About As Poorly As You’d Expect (Kotaku) Vladimir Putin's…
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Tech Policy Press
Who Participates in Politics on Social Media, and Why?
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Everything in Moderation
Ben Whitelaw
Open-weight sovereignty, 'unprecedented' Meta and Bonta subpoenas
The need-to-know developments shaping digital platforms, online speech and internet safety - edition #358
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Indicator
Briefing: US interferes in the name of non-interference
Plus: a Telegram search tool, and tracing traffic in satellite imagery.
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Tech Policy Press
Europe Wants to Regulate AI Friends. But How Do You Curb Dependency?
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Tech Policy Press
At Ireland’s AI Summit, Tech Industry Dominates as Civil Society Sits Out
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Tech Policy Press
Nippon Life v. OpenAI and the Future of AI Legal Work
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Platformer
Ella Markianos
AI is solving math problems faster than humans can understand the solutions
OpenAI’s math breakthroughs may trigger an identity crisis for mathematicians. Who’s next?
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