Joan Donovan, research director at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, offers perspectives on a pervasive new threat.

Partisanship is at an all time high in Washington. But one issue policymakers on both sides seem to agree on is that something should be done to rein in the power of Big Tech.

The panel of experts sent the fate of Trump’s account back to the company to decide.

Kate Crawford, who holds positions at USC and Microsoft, says in a new book that even experts working on the technology misunderstand AI. Technology companies like to portray artificial intelligence as a precise and powerful tool for good. Kate Crawford says that mythology is flawed. In her book Atlas of AI.

Laws regulating platforms can also regulate their users. Some laws may protect users, as privacy laws often do. Others, including many well-intentioned regulations of online content, can erode protections for users’ rights. If such laws are crafted poorly enough, they will violate the Constitution.

Facebook may defend its actions on the grounds of user privacy, but its real concern is losing control of how the company is scrutinized, researcher Andy Sellars argues.

This paper analyzes the policies and products of platform companies
with respect to digital political advertising in the U.S. Our focus is on
social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat,
Reddit, and YouTube) and the advertising capabilities that you can
access through them, as well as Google search and the Google display
network.

Proposing a new framework for newspaper ownership and governance that leverages national capital markets and supports accountability and decision-making in local communities.