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Volume 26, Number 5 - 3 May 2021 First Monday Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202105042020 - 20 20 Vision - First Draft Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104091021 - ‎Techdirt A More Competitive Web, With Cory Doctorow & Daphne Keller on Apple Podcasts Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104261004 - Platform Accountability Through Digital “Poison Cabinets” Knight First Amendment Institute Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104261012 - Our Bipolar Free-Speech Disorder And How To Fix It (Part 2) Techdirt Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104261011 - Our Bipolar Free-Speech Disorder And How To Fix It (Part 1) Techdirt Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104261012 - Our Bipolar Free-Speech Disorder And How To Fix It (Part 3) Techdirt Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104291504 - Privacy practices in the Indian technology ecosystem Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104291459 - GOVERNING ONLINE SPEECH FROM “POSTS-AS-TRUMPS” TO PROPORTIONALITY AND PROBABILITY - Columbia Law Review Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104281409 - 13 lessons from our Journalist Fellows on the future of journalism worldwide Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104280858 - Tiered Governance and Demonetization The Shifting Terms of Labor and Compensation in the Platform Economy - Robyn Caplan, Tarleton Gillespie, 2020 Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104270008 - Modern Communication Strategies and Electoral Dominance Economic and Political Weekly Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104160120 - Behind every algorithm... - Data Made Not Found (by danah) Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104302252 - Final report of the High Level Expert Group on Fake News and Online Disinformation Shaping Europe’s digital future Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104302305 - Recommended Reading Amazon’s algorithms, conspiracy theories and extremist literature - ISD Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-publications/recommended-reading-amazons-algorithms-conspiracy-theories-and-extremist-literature/ Short Notes: 202104302345 - Digital Media and Society - Reports - World Economic Forum Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104302347 - Social Media for Social Good or Evil An Introduction - Jeff Hemsley, Jenna Jacobson, Anatoliy Gruzd, Philip Mai, 2018 Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104232252 - A Framework for Regulating Competition on the Internet – Stratechery by Ben Thompson Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104241545 - The CCP is Retooling its Censorship System at a Brisk Pace in 2021 - Jamestown Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104280804 - Google Promised Its Contact Tracing App Was Completely Private—But It Wasn’t – The Markup Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104290109 - Rethinking Digital Platforms for the Post-COVID-19 Era Centre for International Governance Innovation Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104292210 - European Parliament confirms new online censorship powers - European Digital Rights (EDRi) Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202105011928 - gamma harms Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104200814 - Israeli Supreme Court green lights Israel's 'Cyber Unit' that works with social media giants to - Adalah Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104181628 - Is Twitter Real Life Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104191515 - Mainstreaming Resentment YouTube Celebrities and the Rhetoric of White Supremacy – Items Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104191514 - Female Right-Wing Populism in the U.S. – with Cynthia Miller-Idriss - YouTube Date:May 23, 2021 6:42 PM Short Notes: 202104200830 - Twitter, more speech, and mobs - The Other Sarah McLaughlin's Newsletter Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM Short Notes: 202104132241 - Is content moderation a dead end — Benedict Evans [[%tie]] [[m42]] [[content moderation]] #e4 Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/4/13/is-content-moderation-a-dead-end Short Notes: 202104180956 - Crypto Canon - Andreessen Horowitz Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM Short Notes: 202104110738 - Mining Trends of COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs on Twitter with Lexical Embeddings Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM Short Notes: 202104101513 - Navigating the Tech Stack When, Where and How Should We Moderate Content Centre for International Governance Innovation Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM Short Notes: 202104050707 - Content Moderation Remedies by Eric Goldman SSRN Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM Short Notes: 202104200826 - Opinion A Different Way of Thinking About Cancel Culture - The New York Times Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM Short Notes: 202104192239 - Access Now on Twitter 📢 It’s time to debunk narratives that the TERREG will effectively fight terrorist content. Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM Short Notes: 202104191620 - Mapping Responses to Social Media Threats Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM Short Notes: 202104181923 - Four Internets The Geopolitics of Digital Governance Centre for International Governance Innovation Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM Short Notes: 202104110735 - Shareworthiness and Motivated Reasoning in Hyper-Partisan News Sharing Behavior on Twitter Digital Journalism Vol 0, No 0 Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM Short Notes: 202104110734 - Dense and influential core promotion of daily viral information spread in political echo chambers Scientific Reports Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM Short Notes: 202104191444 - Normfare Norm entrepreneurship in internet governance - ScienceDirect Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM Short Notes: 202104102354 - Reducing The Waste From Our Digital Lives - NOEMA Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM Short Notes: 202104121621 - Google’s Secret ‘Project Bernanke’ Revealed in Texas Antitrust Case - WSJ Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM Short Notes: 202104122318 - Are we at a turning point for tackling online extremism World Economic Forum Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM Short Notes: 202104122316 - Defending Democracies from Disinformation and Cyber-Enabled Foreign Interference in the COVID-19 Era ORF Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM Short Notes: 202104101809 - Pluralistic 20 Feb 2021 – Pluralistic Daily links from Cory Doctorow [[dcn]] [[proposed measures]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/20/escape-velocity/#trustbusting-time Short Notes: 202104081947 - Google Has a Secret Blocklist that Hides YouTube Hate Videos from Advertisers—But It’s Full of Holes – The Markup [[%tie]], [[m36]], [[btmw]], [[youtube]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2021/04/08/google-youtube-hate-videos-ad-keywords-blocklist-failures Short Notes: 202104101435 - If Lawmakers Don't Like Platforms' Speech Rules, Here's What They Can Do About It. Spoiler The Options Aren't Great. Techdirt [[dcn]] [[proposed measures]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200901/13524045226/if-lawmakers-dont-like-platforms-speech-rules-heres-what-they-can-do-about-it-spoiler-options-arent-great.shtml Short Notes: 202104090039 - DigitHarium Events Digital Dilemmas Dialogue 3 [[%tie]], #video, [[dcn]] [[harms]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM https://www.icrc.org/en/digitharium/digital-dilemmas-dialogue-3 Short Notes: 202104090950 - Office of the Director of National Intelligence - Global Trends [[%tie]], [[democracy]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM https://www.dni.gov/index.php/global-trends-home Short Notes: 202104081016 - The Future of Democracy in the Shadow of Big and Emerging Tech CCG Essay Series – The CCG Blog #editedvolume [[democracy]] [[dcn]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM https://ccgnludelhi.wordpress.com/2021/04/01/the-future-of-democracy-in-the-shadow-of-big-and-emerging-tech-ccg-essay-series/amp/ Short Notes: 202104191446 - Taming the Big Tech tiger – Claudia Prettner [[dcn]] [[proposed measures]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM https://www.socialeurope.eu/taming-the-big-tech-tiger Short Notes: 202104091220 - Protocols, Not Platforms A Technological Approach to Free Speech Knight First Amendment Institute [[dcn]] [[proposed measures]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech Short Notes: 202104191452 - Platform Accountability Through Digital “Poison Cabinets” Knight First Amendment Institute [[dcn]] [[proposed measures]] [[%tie]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM https://knightcolumbia.org/content/platform-accountability-through-digital-poison-cabinets Short Notes: 202104052233 - Justice Thomas argues for making Facebook, Twitter and Google utilities - Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech [[%tie]], [[m36]], [[dcn]] [[proposed measures]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/thomas-scotus-twitter-trump-ban Short Notes: 202104050713 - The EU DisinfoLab’s position on the European Commission’s plans to update the Code of Practice on Disinformation EU DisinfoLab [[%tie]], [[m36]], [[dcn]] [[proposed measures]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM https://www.disinfo.eu/advocacy/the-eu-disinfolabs-position-on-the-european-commissions-plans-to-update-the-code-of-practice-on-disinformation/ Short Notes: 202104021724 - Defending 2020 [[%tie]], [[m35]] [[dcn]] [[proposed measures]] [[democracy]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Defending-2020.pdf Short Notes: 202104011432 - Propaganda Analysis Revisited Volume 2, Issue 2 HKS Misinformation Review [[%tie]], [[m35]], [[&paper]], [[dcn]] [[proposed measures]] [[democracy]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/volume-issue/volume-2-issue-2/ Short Notes: 202104011407 - Disrupted Democracies [[%tie]], [[m35]], [[&paper]], [[dcn]] [[proposed measures]] [[democracy]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM https://il.boell.org/sites/default/files/2021-02/Rafael%20Goldzweig%20-%20Disrupted%20Democracies.pdf Short Notes: 202104012134 - Privacy and Manipulation How Social Media Has Affected Political Discourse Economic and Political Weekly [[%tie]], [[m35]], [[mwi]] [[democracy]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM https://www.epw.in/engage/article/privacy-manipulation-social-media-political-discourse Short Notes: 202103311508 - Full Fact launches consultation on the Framework for Information Incidents - Full Fact [[dcn]] [[proposed measures]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM https://fullfact.org/blog/2021/mar/consultation-framework-information-incidents/ Short Notes: 202104091220 - Platform Content Regulation – Some Models and Their Problems Center for Internet and Society [[dcn]] [[proposed measures]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2019/05/platform-content-regulation-%E2%80%93-some-models-and-their-problems#_ftn1 Short Notes: 202103311704 - You and the Algorithm It Takes Two to Tango | by Nick Clegg | Mar, 2021 | Medium [[%tie]], [[btmw]] , [[!facebook]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:43 PM https://nickclegg.medium.com/you-and-the-algorithm-it-takes-two-to-tango-7722b19aa1c2 Short Notes: 202103312143 - Mitigating Medical Misinformation A Whole-of-Society Approach to Countering Spam, Scams, and Hoaxes Media Manipulation Casebook [[%tie]], [[m35]], [[dcn]], [[proposed measures]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:44 PM https://mediamanipulation.org/research/mitigating-medical-misinformation-whole-society-approach-countering-spam-scams-and-hoaxes Short Notes: 202104181424 - Stop Techsploitation Free Press [[%tie]], [[dcn]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:44 PM https://www.freepress.net/our-response/expert-analysis/explainers/stop-techsploitation Short Notes: 202104031720 - Critical Disinformation Studies - Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) [[&syllabi]], [[&resources]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:44 PM https://citap.unc.edu/research/critical-disinfo/ Short Notes: 202104180956 - NFT Canon - Andreessen Horowitz [[&resources]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:44 PM https://a16z.com/2021/04/02/nfts-readings-resources/ Short Notes: 202104181433 - Misinformation - Concurrences Date:May 23, 2021 6:44 PM https://www.concurrences.com/en/dictionary/misinformation-99939 Short Notes: 202104121812 - Wikipedia’s Deep Ties to Big Tech [[%tie]], [[m36]], [[btmw]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:44 PM https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/wikipedias-deep-ties-to-big-tech Short Notes: 202104122055 - Misinformation Concerns and Online News Participation among internet Users in India - Taberez Ahmed Neyazi, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Rasmus K. Nielsen, 2021 [[%tie]], [[m36]], [[&paper]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:44 PM https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051211009013 Short Notes: 202104011456 - Digital Investigation Recipes - First Draft [[&resources]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:44 PM https://firstdraftnews.org/long-form-article/digitalrecipes/ Short Notes: EXCLUSIVE EU wants firm pledges from tech giants in fake news fight | Reuters [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[atw]] [[eu]] Date:May 23, 2021 6:50 PM https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-eu-wants-firm-pledges-tech-giants-fake-news-fight-2021-05-19/ Short Notes: India asks social media firms to remove content referring to Indian variant of COVID; MediaNama's Take | MediaNama [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[mwi]] [[!india]] Date:May 23, 2021 7:01 PM https://www.medianama.com/2021/05/223-meity-social-media-covid/ Short Notes: Malaysian Cartoonist Accused of Slander Over Caricature of Chief Minister [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[atw]] [[malaysia]] Date:May 23, 2021 7:07 PM https://thewire.in/media/malaysian-cartoonist-zunar-accused-slander-kedah-menteri-besar-thaipusam Short Notes: Where’s the fake news at? European news consumers’ perceptions of misinformation across information sources and topics | HKS Misinformation Review [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[atw]] [[eu]] [[&paper]] Date:May 23, 2021 7:14 PM https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/wheres-the-fake-news-at-european-news-consumers-perceptions-of-misinformation-across-information-sources-and-topics/ Short Notes: The Future Could Actually Be Bright for Republicans Date:May 23, 2021 7:24 PM https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/the-future-could-actually-be-bright-for-republicans.html Short Notes: max seddon on Twitter: "Mad news out of Belarus, where authorities forced a @Ryanair flight to land in Minsk over a bomb threat. The seems to be a pretext to arrest a founder of @nexta_tv, which was key to organizing protests against Lukashenko. He could face the death penalty! https://t.co/9ZtPfEg5Ni" / Twitter [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[atw]] [[belarus]] Date:May 23, 2021 7:27 PM https://twitter.com/home Short Notes: Fake social media accounts are amplifying Chinese propaganda - Coda Story [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[atw]] [[china]] Date:May 23, 2021 7:27 PM https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/pro-chinese-fake-accounts/ Short Notes: "Best Practices for Government Procurement of Data- Driven Technologies Date:May 23, 2021 7:32 PM" https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f2c8da15040df578f6b6b34/t/60a6d7b38c2e2e1f8d874711/1621546931985/Best+Practices+for+Government+Technology+Procurement+%28May+2021%29.pdf Short Notes: Belarusian Journalist Arrested After His Flight Diverted To Minsk By Military Fighter Jet [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[atw]] [[belarus]] Date:May 23, 2021 8:59 PM https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-raman-pratasevich-ryanair-false-bomb-threat/31269351.html Short Notes: Slowcial Media — Jake Dugard [[dcn]] [[narrative]] [[proposed measures]] Date:May 23, 2021 10:30 PM https://www.jakedugard.com/blog/slowcial-media Short Notes: "Renee DiResta (@noUpside) Tweeted: The question now is not “how do we find and moderate away bad actors” -that will remain a low-grade whack-a-mole problem- but rather “how do we design better systems for coming to consensus” through the combination of 💻algorithms, 🛠️ affordances, and🤸agency. [[%tie]] [[m41]] #e1 Date:May 23, 2021 11:00 PM" https://twitter.com/noUpside/status/1396187541343141890?s=20 Short Notes: Alphabet CEO: Fighting misinformation 'at the heart of everything' Google does [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[btmw]] [[google]] Date:May 24, 2021 7:24 AM https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-on-combating-misinformation-162718101.html Short Notes: Disinformation in a time of Covid-19: Weekly Trends in... [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[atw]] [[africa]] [[southafrica]] [[congo]] Date:May 24, 2021 7:29 AM https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-05-23-disinformation-in-a-time-of-covid-19-weekly-trends-in-south-africa-32/ Short Notes:See 2 reasons mentioned Twitter, Google, and Facebook publish inaugural Australian transparency reports | ZDNet [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[atw]] [[australia]] [[btmw]] [[google]] [[!facebook]] [[twitter]] [[tiktok]] Date:May 24, 2021 2:18 PM https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-google-and-facebook-publish-inaugural-australian-transparency-reports/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0g&taid=60ab679334e77e00018aaee6&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter Short Notes: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter Export Covid Vaccine Misinformation From U.S. - Bloomberg [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[atw]] [[us]] Date:May 24, 2021 2:35 PM https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-20/facebook-instagram-twitter-export-covid-vaccine-misinformation-from-u-s Short Notes: How Israel uses disinformation to delegitimise the Palestinian cause | Middle East Eye [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[atw]] [[israel]] [[palestine]] Date:May 24, 2021 4:38 PM https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-disinformation-censorship-discourse Short Notes: China flooded Taiwan with COVID disinformation in 2020 — report - Axios [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[atw]] [[china]] [[taiwan]] Date:May 24, 2021 4:45 PM https://www.axios.com/report-beijing-taiwan-coronavirus-disinformation-82a6b21b-d743-49e8-9c66-c445827de024.html Short Notes: Media and social media attention to retracted articles according to Altmetric [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[&paper]] Date:May 24, 2021 4:47 PM https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0248625 Short Notes: Listening to what trust in news means to users: qualitative evidence from four countries | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[&paper]] Date:May 24, 2021 4:53 PM https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/listening-what-trust-news-means-users-qualitative-evidence-four-countries Short Notes: Senators roll out bipartisan data privacy bill - The Verge [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[atw]] [[us]] Date:May 24, 2021 10:39 PM https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/20/22444515/amy-klobuchar-data-privacy-protection-facebook-state-laws Short Notes: The Good Web: Democratic Values, Practices, and Procedures – Alliance For Securing Democracy [[dcn]] [[proposed measures]] Date:May 24, 2021 10:42 PM https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/the-good-web-security-and-geopolitics/ Short Notes: The Technology 202: Online disinformation has changed. Now the DNC is updating its response unit. - The Washington Post [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[atw]] [[us]] Date:May 24, 2021 10:44 PM https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/21/technology-202-online-disinformation-has-changed-now-dnc-is-updating-its-response-unit/ Short Notes: New Research Identifies Promising Strategies to Fight COVID Misinformation [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[&paper]] #e1 Date:May 24, 2021 10:51 PM https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-research-identifies-promising-strategies-to-fight-covid-misinformation-301296911.html Short Notes: GPT-3 Can Write Disinformation Now—and Dupe Human Readers | WIRED Date:May 24, 2021 10:52 PM https://www.wired.com/story/ai-write-disinformation-dupe-human-readers Short Notes:https://www.notion.so/Assessing-the-risks-of-language-model-deepfakes-to-democracy-mdm-2ec782836d9f42eb9e4ec0aa6ddbb15e https://www.notion.so/GPT-3-s-ability-to-write-disinformation-is-being-wildly-overstated-by-the-media-6016688178a742d4a0f17fbff9bf75f4 SocArXiv Papers | Combining interventions to reduce the spread of viral misinformation [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[&paper]] #e1 Date:May 24, 2021 11:06 PM https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/4jtvm Short Notes: janinezacharia on Twitter: "Many have commented on the selective application of social media policies in @vv1lder's firing by @AP and have discussed the need for clearer guidelines and enforcement. I agree that would be helpful. But I want to explain how that isn't the core issue here. (1/12)" / Twitter [[%tie]] [[m41]] Date:May 24, 2021 11:07 PM https://twitter.com/janinezacharia/status/1396513110609915905 Short Notes: UK Draft Online Safety Bill – 24th May 2021 – http://regulate.tech [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[uk]] [[m41]] Date:May 24, 2021 11:14 PM https://www.regulate.tech/uk-draft-online-safety-bill-24th-may-2021/ Short Notes: How Ad Tech Wound Up Monetizing Sanctioned Russian Websites [[%tie]] [[btmw]] [[adtech]] Date:May 25, 2021 12:07 AM https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/how-ad-tech-wound-up-monetizing-sanctioned-russian-websites/ Short Notes: Facebook's Nick Clegg proposes U.S. digital regulator - Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech [[%tie]] [[btmw]] [[!facebook]] Date:May 25, 2021 12:18 AM https://www.protocol.com/facebooks-digital-regulator Short Notes: YouTube feels heat as Russia ramps up “digital sovereignty” drive | Ars Technica [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[russia]] [[states vs corporations]] Date:May 25, 2021 12:22 AM https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/youtube-feels-heat-as-russia-ramps-up-digital-sovereignty-drive/ Short Notes: Assessing the risks of language model “deepfakes” to democracy [[%tie]] Date:May 25, 2021 12:25 AM https://techpolicy.press/assessing-the-risks-of-language-model-deepfakes-to-democracy/ Short Notes: Online Hate Becomes Real-World Violence In Israel–Palestine [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[israel]] palestine Date:May 25, 2021 7:30 AM https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/israel-palestine-online-hate Short Notes: Internet Impact Assessment Toolkit | Internet Society Date:May 25, 2021 7:31 AM https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/internet-way-of-networking/internet-impact-assessment-toolkit/ Short Notes: Non-compliance with new guidelines will invite action: Centre to social media companies | Latest News India - Hindustan Times [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[mwi]] [[!india]] Date:May 25, 2021 8:10 AM https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/noncompliance-with-new-guidelines-will-invite-action-centre-to-social-media-companies-101621882808192.html Short Notes: Vaccine waitlist Dr. B collected data from millions. But how many did it help? [[igf contact tracing]] Date:May 25, 2021 9:23 AM https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/05/24/1025281/covid-vaccine-waitlist-dr-b-collected-data-from-millions/ Short Notes: From calling allopathy a ‘stupid science’ to dubbing Coronil as Covid cure: Ramdev’s controversial remarks | India News,The Indian Express [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[mwi]] [[!india]] Date:May 25, 2021 12:36 PM https://indianexpress.com/article/india/ramdev-coronil-allopathy-coronavirus-doctors-remarks-7329359/ Short Notes: ‘Rogue’ Commerce unit scanned social media for Census disinformation - The Verge [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[atw]] [[us]] Date:May 25, 2021 1:13 PM https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/24/22451494/commerce-unit-surveillance-privacy-social-media-twitter-senate Short Notes: Facebook says it aims to ‘comply’ with India’s new IT rules effective tomorrow - The Economic Times [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[mwi]] [[!india]] Date:May 25, 2021 1:49 PM https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/facebook-says-it-aims-to-comply-with-indias-new-it-rules-effective-tomorrow/articleshow/82934860.cms Short Notes: After Pursuing Terrorists, Delhi Police Special Cell Investigates Twitter's 'manipulated Media' Policy | Forbes India [[%tie]] [[mwi]] [[!india]] [[m41]] Date:May 25, 2021 3:04 PM https://www.forbesindia.com/article/take-one-big-story-of-the-day/after-pursuing-terrorists-delhi-police-special-cell-investigates-twitters-manipulated-media-policy/68147/1 Short Notes: Laos directs surveillance of social media platforms, further throttling expression online - Access Now [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[laos]] [[m41]] Date:May 25, 2021 4:38 PM https://www.accessnow.org/laos-directs-surveillance-of-social-media-platforms/ Short Notes: Mike Caulfield on Twitter: "People keep asking questions like "how can misinfo literacy help when everyone is so polarized" but it completely misdiagnoses what goes on with most people, who have *zero* idea what they are consuming https://t.co/3zkN6rU00B https://t.co/Z1cQODsaF2" / Twitter [[%tie]] Date:May 25, 2021 8:36 PM https://twitter.com/holden/status/1397197778577731591 Short Notes: Research note: This photograph has been altered: Testing the effectiveness of image forensic labeling on news image credibility | HKS Misinformation Review [[%tie]] [[&paper]] [[m41]] Date:May 25, 2021 10:42 PM https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/research-note-this-photograph-has-been-altered-testing-the-effectiveness-of-image-forensic-labeling-on-news-image-credibility/ Short Notes: French YouTube influencer 'offered cash to spread vaccine disinformation' | Euronews [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[france]] [[m41]] Date:May 25, 2021 10:44 PM https://www.euronews.com/2021/05/25/french-youtube-influencer-offered-cash-to-spread-vaccine-disinformation Short Notes: Publicis Integrates 'Disinformation' Ratings Into Programmatic Buys, To Power Public Health Campaign 05/25/2021 [[%tie]] [[btmw]] [[m41]] Date:May 25, 2021 10:46 PM https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/363603/publicis-integrates-disinformation-ratings-into.html Short Notes: Google to roll out About this Result in search to tackle fake news: All you need to know | Hindustan Times [[%tie]] [[btmw]] [[google]] Date:May 25, 2021 10:51 PM https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/google-to-roll-out-about-this-result-in-search-to-tackle-fake-news-101621477225238.html Short Notes: Oracle Peddled Software Used for Spying on U.S. Protesters to China [[igf contact tracing]] Date:May 26, 2021 12:30 AM https://theintercept.com/2021/05/25/oracle-social-media-surveillance-protests-endeca/ Short Notes: Ideas | When Covid misinformation comes for the family WhatsApp - Rest of World [[%tie]] [[mwi]] [[!india]] [[m41]] Date:May 26, 2021 7:10 AM https://restofworld.org/2021/covid-india-whatsapp-misinformation/ Short Notes: Bringing Truth to the Internet : Democracy Journal Date:May 26, 2021 7:33 AM https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/53/bringing-truth-to-the-internet/ Short Notes: Science, misinformation and digital technology during the Covid-19 pandemic | SpringerLink [[%tie]] [[m41]] [[&paper]] Date:May 26, 2021 9:18 AM https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40656-021-00424-4 Short Notes: Social media responds to the Scott Morrison's lies [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[australia]] Date:May 26, 2021 9:59 AM https://www.crikey.com.au/2021/05/26/social-media-responds-to-the-pms-lies-its-about-time-someone-somewhere-documented-this/ Short Notes: GPT-3’s ability to ‘write disinformation’ is being wildly overstated by the media Date:May 26, 2021 10:06 AM https://thenextweb.com/news/gpt-3s-ability-to-write-disinformation-wildly-overstated-ai-media Short Notes: joyojeet pal on Twitter: "We studied online misinformation in India during the second wave of the COVID crisis. We find a dramatic rise of 'utilitarian' misinformation, purporting to 'deal with' the issue, compared with blame-oriented misinformation, purporting to find 'those at fault' in 2020. (1/6) https://t.co/ZeyEov9Fev" / Twitter [[%tie]] [[mwi]] [[!india]] [[m41]] Date:May 26, 2021 3:34 PM https://mobile.twitter.com/joyopal/status/1397491162257137666?s=12 Short Notes:http://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/covidsecondwave/ "Threat Report The State of Influence Operations 2017-2020 Date:May 26, 2021 7:17 PM" https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IO-Threat-Report-May-20-2021.pdf Short Notes: WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook vs Govt: India seeks details of compliance status of new IT rules Date:May 26, 2021 7:23 PM https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/whatsapp-twitter-facebook-vs-govt-india-seeks-details-of-compliance-status-from-social-media-giants-11622034259661.html Short Notes: When Zionism is Antisemitic | Becca Lewis on Patreon [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[m41]] Date:May 26, 2021 8:52 PM https://www.patreon.com/posts/when-zionism-is-51699193?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=postshare Short Notes: Facebook to Limit Reach of Personal Accounts That Spread Misinformation - Bloomberg #e1 Date:May 26, 2021 10:50 PM https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-26/facebook-to-limit-reach-of-personal-accounts-that-spread-misinformation Short Notes: Ludhiana YouTuber handed over to Arunachal police [[%tie]] [[mwi]] [[!india]] [[m41]] Date:May 27, 2021 9:23 AM https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/ludhiana-youtuber-handed-over-to-arunachal-police-101622056754930.html Short Notes: Canada Wants YouTube, TikTok to Prioritize Canadian Content - WSJ [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[canada]] Date:May 27, 2021 11:38 AM https://www.wsj.com/articles/canada-wants-youtube-tik-tok-to-prioritize-canadian-content-11622044661 Short Notes: Muslim Man's Arrest for Pro-Palestine Social Media Post Shows UP Police's Islamophobia [[%tie]] [[mwi]] [[!india]] [[m41]] Date:May 27, 2021 12:32 PM https://thewire.in/communalism/muslim-mans-arrest-for-pro-palestine-social-media-post-shows-up-polices-islamophobia Short Notes: Fake News, Quackery Mar India's COVID Fight but Government is Doing Nothing About Infodemic [[%tie]] [[mwi]] [[!india]] [[m41]] Date:May 27, 2021 2:56 PM https://thewire.in/media/fake-news-quackery-mar-indias-covid-fight-but-government-is-doing-nothing-about-infodemic Short Notes: Anne Schulz on Twitter: "ongoing pandemic 👉ongoing infodemic A year into the coronavirus pandemic we take another look at how people in 8 countries use news and information about #COVID19: Which sources? Role of platforms? Trust? Concern about misinformation? Who believes it?… Thread on the latter 👇 https://t.co/OdSZhd7oGI" / Twitter [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[m41]] Date:May 27, 2021 6:05 PM https://mobile.twitter.com/annisch/status/1397864380751089667 Short Notes: From June 14, influencers must label all paid posts, says ad council - The Economic Times [[%tie]] [[mwi]] [[!india]] [[m41]] Date:May 27, 2021 6:07 PM https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/from-june-14-influencers-must-label-all-paid-posts-says-ad-council/articleshow/83003329.cms Short Notes: Deafening Whispers - China’s Information Operation and Taiwan’s 2020 Election | Doublethink Lab [[%tie]] [[atw]] Date:May 27, 2021 7:36 PM https://medium.com/doublethinklab/deafening-whispers-f9b1d773f6cd Short Notes: How Can Platforms Improve Moderation Without Affecting Free Speech? [[%tie]] [[m42]] #e4 Date:May 27, 2021 10:36 PM https://www.logically.ai/articles/how-can-platforms-improve-moderation-without-affecting-free-speech Short Notes: Mike Caulfield on Twitter: "This whole pandemic has been people taking statements of uncertainty either as 1) Statements that "x is unlikely", or 2) Evidence that actually "x *is* likely" and there is some sort of cover-up But plausibility and certainty run on two different axes." / Twitter [[%tie]] Date:May 27, 2021 11:36 PM https://twitter.com/holden/status/1397781889021186050 Short Notes: Tech Liability Shield Has No Place in Trade Deals, Groups Say - Bloomberg [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[us]] [[m42]] Date:May 28, 2021 12:51 AM https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-27/tech-liability-shield-has-no-place-in-trade-deals-groups-say Short Notes: Why did digital contact tracing for COVID fail so completely? [[igf contact tracing]] Date:May 28, 2021 1:01 AM https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2021/05/13/digital-contact-tracing-covid-19-pandemic/ideas/essay/ Short Notes: Bogus fact-checking site amplified by dozens of Indian embassies on social media | by @DFRLab | DFRLab | May, 2021 | Medium [[%tie]] [[mwi]] [[!india]] [[m42]] Date:May 28, 2021 8:18 AM https://medium.com/dfrlab/bogus-fact-checking-site-amplified-by-dozens-of-indian-embassies-on-social-media-7b4b31004699 Short Notes: Myth: AI algorithms decide what you see online | Digital Society Blog Date:May 28, 2021 1:30 PM https://www.hiig.de/en/myth-ai-algorithms-decide-what-you-see-online/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=monthly-digest-concepts-of-the-digital-society-or-power-and-academia_8 Short Notes: Industry groups sue to stop Florida’s new social media law - The Verge [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[m42]] Date:May 28, 2021 7:18 PM https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/27/22457200/ccia-netchoice-lawsuit-florida-social-media-law-unconstitutional Short Notes: Daphne Keller on Twitter: "Who should audit platforms' transparency efforts? Civil society should pay close attention to the emerging real world answer: *Advertisers* will be the auditors. After all, as this ad industry report points out, they're "holding the purse strings." https://t.co/ryvnjKvGzb" / Twitter [[%tie]] [[m42]] [[btmw]] Date:May 28, 2021 10:36 PM https://mobile.twitter.com/daphnehk/status/1398318473193811971?s=12 Short Notes: Cyber @ State Dept on Twitter: "The UN Group of Governmental Experts report agreed to today will guide the international community’s thinking on how to prevent conflict in cyberspace for years to come. We were proud to join consensus and support the report. 🇺🇳 #UNCyberGGE (1/6)" / Twitter [[htg]] Date:May 28, 2021 11:20 PM https://twitter.com/State_Cyber/status/1398314450743091201 Short Notes: Social Media + Society - Volume 4, Number 3, Jul 01, 2018 Social Media for Social Good or Evil [[dcn]] Date:May 30, 2021 6:01 PM https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/smsa/4/3 Short Notes: Social Media, Opinion Polls, and the Use of Persuasive Messages During the 2016 US Election Primaries - Patrícia Rossini, Jeff Hemsley, Sikana Tanupabrungsun, Feifei Zhang, Jennifer Stromer-Galley, 2018 [[dcn]] [[performative politics]] Date:May 30, 2021 6:02 PM https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305118784774 Short Notes: Constructing the Platform-Specific Self-Brand: The Labor of Social Media Promotion - Leah Scolere, Urszula Pruchniewska, Brooke Erin Duffy, 2018 [[dcn]] [[performative politics]] Date:May 30, 2021 6:03 PM https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305118784768 Short Notes: Digital Media and Society - Reports - World Economic Forum [[dcn]] [[harms]] Date:May 30, 2021 6:05 PM https://reports.weforum.org/human-implications-of-digital-media-2016/downsides-and-risks/ Short Notes: Microsoft wants to unite APAC governments with cybersecurity council | ZDNet [[htg]] Date:May 31, 2021 2:47 PM https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-wants-to-unite-apac-governments-with-cybersecurity-council/ Short Notes: Jane Manchun Wong on Twitter: "Twitter is working on three levels of misinformation warning labels: “Get the latest”, “Stay Informed” and “Misleading” https://t.co/0RdmMsRAEk" / Twitter [[%tie]] [[btmw]] [[m42]] [[twitter]] Date:May 31, 2021 3:59 PM https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1399311420794105862 Short Notes: NCPCR files complaint against Twitter for providing misinformation and violating POCSO Act, FIR registered [[%tie]] [[mwi]] [[!india]] [[m42]] Date:May 31, 2021 5:38 PM https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/ncpcr-files-complaint-against-twitter-for-providing-misinformation-and-violating-pocso-act-fir-registered Short Notes: Telangana police is closely watching social media, warns DGP [[%tie]] [[mwi]] [[!india]] [[m42]] Date:May 31, 2021 5:39 PM https://www.medianama.com/2021/05/223-telangana-social-media-fake-news/ Short Notes: Civicus: State of Civil Society Report 2021 [[rns]] Date:May 31, 2021 5:42 PM https://civicus.org/state-of-civil-society-report-2021/ Short Notes: Qatar charges migrant activist with taking payment to spread disinformation [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[m42]] [[qatar]] Date:May 31, 2021 5:43 PM https://www.livemint.com/news/world/qatar-charges-migrant-activist-with-taking-payment-to-spread-disinformation-11622436753832.html Short Notes: As WhatsApp hits India's great firewall, other companies may help build it | Business Standard News [[%tie]] [[mwi]] [[!india]] [[m42]] Date:May 31, 2021 5:45 PM https://www.business-standard.com/article/technology/how-to-build-a-great-firewall-with-indian-characteristics-for-social-media-121053100165_1.html Short Notes: State mulls ID linkages for social media [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[thailand]] [[m42]] Date:May 31, 2021 5:46 PM https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2124235/state-mulls-id-linkages-for-social-media Short Notes: The Rise of the ‘Vietnamese Rush Limbaugh’ [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[us]] [[vietnam]] [[m42]] Date:May 31, 2021 5:49 PM https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kv8ma/vietnamese-rush-limbaugh-youtube Short Notes: 'I was appalled': Tánaiste asked social media firms to combat 'illegal' gatherings after Grafton St protest [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[ireland]] Date:May 31, 2021 5:52 PM https://www.thejournal.ie/leo-varadkar-letter-facebook-twitter-anti-lockdown-protest-5450665-May2021/ Short Notes: Politicized science drove lunar exploration and Stalinist pseudoscience – but polarized scientific views are worse than ever [[%tie]] [[m42]] Date:May 31, 2021 5:56 PM https://theconversation.com/politicized-science-drove-lunar-exploration-and-stalinist-pseudoscience-but-polarized-scientific-views-are-worse-than-ever-160435 Short Notes: [[mwi]] Ramdev oxygen of amp v/s large platform Date:May 31, 2021 5:58 PM Short Notes: Instagram tweaks algorithm after accusations of Palestinian censorship | Financial Times [[%tie]] [[btmw]] [[instagram]] [[atw]] [[palestine]] Date:May 31, 2021 6:00 PM https://www.ft.com/content/f2b394e5-d0c5-45e5-ba96-130865b02ce7 Short Notes: Self-regulation 2:0? A critical reflection of the European fight against disinformation | HKS Misinformation Review [[%tie]] [[m42]] [[&paper]] Date:May 31, 2021 6:10 PM https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/self-regulation-20-a-critical-reflection-of-the-european-fight-against-disinformation/ Short Notes: Do You See What I See? Capabilities and Limits of Automated Multimedia Content Analysis - Center for Democracy and Technology [[%tie]] [[m42]] [[&paper]] Date:May 31, 2021 6:12 PM https://cdt.org/insights/do-you-see-what-i-see-capabilities-and-limits-of-automated-multimedia-content-analysis/ Short Notes: Child rights panel accuses Twitter of 'lying', violating POCSO Act, files FIR [[%tie]] [[mwi]] [[!india]] [[m42]] Date:May 31, 2021 10:44 PM https://theprint.in/india/child-rights-panel-accuses-twitter-of-lying-violating-pocso-act-files-fir/669134/ Short Notes: In Pakistan, pro-government ‘fact checkers’ attack journalists- Coda Story [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[pakistan]] [[m42]] Date:May 31, 2021 10:57 PM https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/pakistan-harassment-journalists/ Short Notes: Bundeskartellamt - Homepage - Verfahren gegen Google nach neuen Digitalvorschriften (§ 19a GWB) – Bundeskartellamt prüft marktübergreifende Bedeutung für den Wettbewerb und Konditionen zur Datenverarbeitung [[dcn]] [[dominance]] [[google]] Date:May 31, 2021 11:06 PM https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/SharedDocs/Meldung/DE/Pressemitteilungen/2021/25_05_2021_Google_19a.html?utm_term=0_4510155485-799423f6c9-120721260&utm_campaign=799423f6c9-WeeklyDigest15_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_source=DiploMail Short Notes: Guidance on Strengthening the Code of Practice on Disinformation | Shaping Europe’s digital future [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[eu]] [[m42]] [[dcn]] [[proposed measures]] Date:May 31, 2021 11:08 PM https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/guidance-strengthening-code-practice-disinformation Short Notes: OEWG 2021-2025, Organisational session | Digital Watch [[htg]] Date:May 31, 2021 11:09 PM https://dig.watch/events/oewg-2021-2025-organisational-session Short Notes: Full article: Reverse-engineering political protest: the Russian Internet Research Agency in the Heart of Texas [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[us]] [[rns]] [[m42]] Date:May 31, 2021 11:20 PM https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1934066 Short Notes: Researchers reverse-engineer 2016 Texas protest organized by Russian Internet Research Agency [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[us]] [[rns]] [[m42]] Date:May 31, 2021 11:24 PM https://techpolicy.press/researchers-reverse-engineer-2016-texas-protest-organized-russian-internet-research-agency/ Short Notes: The Boogaloo Movement, Coded Communication and the Need for Context-Based Moderation – GNET [[%tie]] [[&paper]] [[m42]] Date:May 31, 2021 11:26 PM https://gnet-research.org/2021/05/28/the-boogaloo-movement-coded-communication-and-the-need-for-context-based-moderation/ Short Notes: How Can Platforms Improve Moderation Without Affecting Free Speech? [[%tie]] [[m42]] #e4 Date:May 31, 2021 11:30 PM https://www.logically.ai/articles/how-can-platforms-improve-moderation-without-affecting-free-speech Short Notes: Emily Wilder's Firing at The A.P. Reminds Us of What We Didn't Expect - The New York Times [[%tie]] [[m42]] #e3 Date:May 31, 2021 11:41 PM https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/29/technology/emily-wilder-firing-ap.html Short Notes:Ephemeral? Link to call out. flattening of time Full article: Big Tech: Four Emerging Forms of Digital Rentiership [[dcn]] [[dominance]] Date:Jun 1, 2021 7:47 AM https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09505431.2021.1932794#.YK5SLDCAWnk.twitter Short Notes: Israeli colonialism goes digital [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[israel]] [[palestine]] Date:Jun 1, 2021 7:50 AM https://www.972mag.com/israel-digital-colonialism-social-media/ Short Notes: Voice Catchers | Yale University Press #books Date:Jun 1, 2021 8:00 AM https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248036/voice-catchers Short Notes: The Gentrification of the Internet by Jessa Lingel - Hardcover - University of California Press #books [[dcn]] [[proposed measures]] Date:Jun 1, 2021 8:10 AM https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520344907/the-gentrification-of-the-internet Short Notes: What’s behind the semiconductor shortage and how long could it last? [[htg]] Date:Jun 1, 2021 8:13 AM https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/whats-behind-the-semiconductor-shortage-and-how-long-could-it-last/ Short Notes: In a push for privacy, tech giants are seen cracking down on competition - Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech [[%tie]] [[btmw]] [[dcn]] #overlaps Date:Jun 1, 2021 1:32 PM https://www.protocol.com/policy/facebook-privacy-competition Short Notes: Palki Sharma on Twitter: "After influencing elections and deplatforming leaders, is [[twitter]] controlling & editing our conversations? It has branded our story on women's reproductive freedom as "sensitive content," restricted access to video and reactions. #ManipulatedSocialMedia" / Twitter [[%tie]] [[mwi]] [[!india]] Date:Jun 1, 2021 1:51 PM https://twitter.com/home Short Notes: Guidance on Strengthening the Code of Practice on Disinformation | Shaping Europe’s digital future [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[eu]] [[dcn]] [[proposed measures]] Date:Jun 1, 2021 2:28 PM https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/guidance-strengthening-code-practice-disinformation Short Notes: Why Google boss Sundar Pichai changed his tune on Australia’s media bargaining code [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[australia]] [[m42]] Date:Jun 1, 2021 7:32 PM https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/why-google-boss-sundar-pichai-learnt-to-love-australia-s-media-laws-20210527-p57vpj.html Short Notes: Second Opinion: We know social media can incite violence. Moderation can help, if it's done right - Los Angeles Times [[%tie]] [[m42]] [[content moderation]] #e4 Date:Jun 1, 2021 7:40 PM https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-05-30/donald-trump-facebook-oversight-board Short Notes: European police hope Google ads will steer teenagers away from a life of hacking [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[eu]] [[m42]] Date:Jun 1, 2021 7:48 PM https://www.cyberscoop.com/europe-teen-hackers-second-chance-hack-right/ Short Notes: Senator Markey, Rep. Matsui Introduce Legislation to Combat Harmful Algorithms and Create New Online Transparency Regime [[%tie]] [[atw]] [[us]] [[algorithm]] #e1 Date:Jun 1, 2021 11:22 PM https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-markey-rep-matsui-introduce-legislation-to-combat-harmful-algorithms-and-create-new-online-transparency-regime Short Notes: Why Apple and Google’s Virus Alert Apps Had Limited Success - The New York Times [[igf contact tracing]] Date:Jun 1, 2021 11:24 PM https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/27/business/apple-google-virus-tracing-app.html Short Notes: Do You See What I See? 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