What I’m Reading - 9/24/23
I certainly have been burning both ends of the candle the last two weeks, but especially this week. I’m very grateful to have a rainy weekend - thanks to tropical storm Ophelia - to give me the chance to take a breath and a few daytime naps.
Thank you for the reception you all gave me, not only for the first episode of my podcast - Impossible Tradeoffs - but for my newsletter on panicking responsibly. I was nervous about posting both of them, so the positive feedback was lovely.
I’m heading into another busy week as I’ll be headed out to Los Angeles and San Francisco. In LA, I’ll be doing three panels:
Tuesday, September 26 at 1 pm Eastern - I’ll be on a panel with the CDT for their new report: Seismic Shifts: How Economic, Technological, and Political Trends are Challenging Independent Counter-Election-Disinformation Initiatives in the United States. You can tune in virtually here.
Tuesday, September 26 at 3:15 pm Eastern/1:15 pm Pacific - UCLA’s Rick Hasen is hosting a panel discussion titled, “How Should Platforms Handle Election Speech and Disinformation in 2024?” Sign up to watch virtually here.
Wednesday, September 27 at 3 pm Eastern/1 pm Pacific - I’m moderating a panel/interactive exercise at the American Democracy Summit called “Inside the Content Moderator's Conundrum: An Interactive Exercise.”
If you will be at any of these, let me know!
Also, I was on the Chief Influencer podcast this week talking about Uncovering Your Unique Voice. It was a fun conversation about how I’ve navigated speaking publicly since leaving Facebook.
Have a great Sunday.
What I’m Reading
The New York Times: Britain Passes Sweeping New Online Safety Law
Atlantic Council: What Does the UK's Online Safety Bill Achieve? A Debrief from Richard Allan
The New York Times: Yoel Roth - Trump Attacked Me. Then Musk Did. It Wasn’t an Accident.
The Washington Post: Misinformation research is buckling under GOP legal attacks
Lawfare: A Battle for Better Information
USA Today: How the Supreme Court could alter the way Americans interact on the internet
Pew Research: Americans' Dismal Views of the Nation's Politics
Politico: Biden’s campaign set to counterpunch on misinformation
European Parliamentary Research Service: Artificial intelligence, democracy and elections
SAGE Journals: Facebook’s News Feed Algorithm and the 2020 US Election
Hindustan Times: Facebook's Architecture Hurts Its Own Misinformation Policies, Research Finds
Center for Democracy and Technology: Seismic Shifts: How Economic, Technological, and Political Trends are Challenging Independent Counter-Election-Disinformation Initiatives in the United States
Forum on Information and Democracy: 19 Internationally Renowned Experts Join Steering Committee of the International Observatory on Information and Democracy
Aspen Digital: Navigating Uncharted Waters - Generative AI Guidance for Organizations
Tech Policy Press: U.S. Senate AI Insight Forum Tracker
Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo: Bill Introduced to Ban Surveillance Advertising
Business Insider: TikTok and Google Test New Search Partnership
The Verge: TikTok's AI-Generated Content Labels and Effects Filters
Bloomberg: Podcasting’s No. 1 Agent Now Copes With Crash of Market He Hyped
National Post: Canada launches UN declaration pledging measures on online disinformation
EURACTIV: EU-China Digital Dialogue Seeks Common Ground on Tech and Data
North Africa Post: Russia’s disinformation campaign in Africa making quickest victories in history of propaganda — report
ABC News: Tucker Carlson erupts into Argentina's presidential campaign with Javier Milei interview
Wired: X Challenger Pebble Thinks AI-Generated Posts Can Help Lure Users Away From Elon Musk
Facebook Human Rights Report: Second Annual Human Rights Report
- : Falling for France
Kate has started posting her serialized memoir on Substack. This is the first installment, and I’m excited to have this weekly escape to cooking in France.