What I'm Reading - 12/3/23
Whew, this was a tough week. Two full days of conferences plus a full-day board meeting meant a full week’s worth of work crammed into two days. One of those conferences was the annual National Conference on Citizenship, where I am the board chair. They live-streamed the whole thing, but if you want to watch the panel I moderated about the online information environment and the 2024 election, you can click here.
I’ve got a few other events next week as well, if you aren’t sick of election talk.
December 5, 2023 - The Messenger - AI: Balancing Innovation & Regulation
December 6, 2024: Atlantic Council, Duco and Anchor Change - Elections everywhere all at once
Finally, I wanted to share a podcast I was on recently that is different than most that I am on. One of the things I’ve been exploring more this year is tarot and astrology. I was introduced to Rebecca Auman by a friend, and she has been such a calming presence in my otherwise chaotic life. She recently started a podcast called Voices in the River, and this week, I’m her guest talking about my journey. The episode is called “The Things We Whisper.” I love how she describes me as an edge walker. I’ll be going back to that regularly when I need a boost. 💜💜💜
Have a great Sunday!
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What I’m Reading
Washington Post: Federal judge blocks Montana’s TikTok ban
Tech Policy Press: Media Regulations in India: Government Overreach Disguised as ‘Parity’
Tech Policy Press: Members of Congress Don’t Dance on TikTok
Washington Post: U.S. stops helping Big Tech spot foreign meddling amid GOP legal threats
Bloomberg: No Laws Protect People From Deepfake Porn. These Victims Fought Back
Hollywood Reporter: Linda Yaccarino, Elon Musk and X: Behind the Mess, Ad Exodus
New Yorker: The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI
Politico: The West’s unknown social media enforcer
Washington Post: Newsletter platform Substack takes aim at YouTube
Poynter: On the front lines of the local news crisis, a lot of pain but some reason for hope
Harsha Bhatlapenumarthy: India 2024 Elections - Election Integrity
Knight First Amendment Institute: Trust the Process
National Endowment for Democracy: Deepening the Response to Authoritarian Information Operations in Latin America
Integrity Institute: How Generative AI Makes Content Moderation Both Harder and Easier
European Commission: Digital Services Act: Summary report on the call for evidence on the Delegated Regulation on data access
Oxford: Global Well-Being and Mental Health in the Internet Age
Meta: A Decade of Advancing the State-of-the-Art in AI Through Open Research
Meta: Meta’s Quarterly Updates on the Oversight Board
Case to note that they referred to the board, “A candidate for governor in Mexico posted on Facebook calling for people to report instances of voter fraud if they are offered something in exchange for their votes and to instead vote for the candidate who posted the content. Our Coordinating Harm and Promoting Crime policy prohibits voting interference. In this case, however, we determined that the content did not violate that policy as it calls for voters to report such instances but does not offer to buy or sell votes with cash or gifts.”
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