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 are are censoring Tamil activists and other activists around the world who being targeted by governments. And sec...
May 23, 2021•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 meanin...
May 16, 2021•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, internat...
May 09, 2021•2 hr 40 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 l...
May 02, 2021•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 & Engineeri...
Apr 25, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Apr 18, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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; N...
Apr 11, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 with Vivian 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 co...
Apr 04, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week’s episode of The Sunday Show focuses on Congressional 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.&nb...
Mar 28, 2021•2 hr 35 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 direc...
Mar 21, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 discussi...
Mar 14, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 at The Atlantic, a co-founder of the COVID Tracking Project, and the author of Powering 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 ...
Mar 07, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Anonymous co-host Travis View , and the DFRLab’s Research Fellow, Jared Holt . We also...
Feb 28, 2021•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Da...
Feb 21, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 of the German Marshall Fund’s Digital Innovation Democracy Initiative; and Emily Bell , Founding Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School. Plus, we talk about news at the intersection of technology and policy with Bryan Jones...
Feb 14, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 T he 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,...
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