The Tech Policy Press Podcast
Episodes
Unpacking the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, President Joe Biden’s White House published a 73-page document produced by the Office of Science and Technology Policy titled Blueprint f...
Debate Over Content Moderation Heads to the Supreme Court
09 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Some of the most controversial debates over speech and content moderation on social media platforms are now due for consideration in the Supreme Court...
Digital Governance and the State of Democracy: Why Does it Matter?
08 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On September 21, Justin Hendrix moderated a panel discussion for the McCourt Institute at a pre-conference spotlight session on digital governance ahe...
The Supreme Court Takes Up Two Cases That Could Transform the Internet
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases that concern whether tech platforms can be held liable for user generated content, as well ...
Election Misinformation Thrives on Major Social Media Platforms
02 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The former President and his supporters continue to sow doubt in the outcome of the 2020 election, and in the election system more generally. Now, wit...
Contemplating the "Uselessness" of AI Ethics
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a new paper-- "The uselessness of AI Ethics," published in the online edition of the journal AI and Ethics, Luke Munn, points to over 80 lists of A...
Trust and Safety Comes of Age?
25 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As content moderation and other trust and safety issues have been, to put it mildly, at the fore of tech concerns over the last few years, it’s inte...
Can Big Tech Platforms Operate Responsibly on a Global Scale?
18 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A series of reports published this summer by Article 19- working with UNESCO and with funding from the European Union- take an in-depth look at how so...
Understanding Digital Dragnets: Surveillance in the Age of Smartphones
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Tech Policy Press podcast, we’re going to explore how law enforcement and other government agencies in the United States acqu...
Mitigating Election Disinformation in Brazil
11 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
it is well understood that for all the shortcomings of the tech platforms’ approach to elections in this country, it’s much worse abroad, where of...
Douglas Ruskhkoff, the Survival of the Richest and... the Battle of Endor?
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A common theme on this podcast is the future, and the visions of the future that a certain set of Silicon Valley tech and venture accelerationists are...
Contemplating YouTube's Rise: A Conversation with Author Mark Bergen
04 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features a conversation with Bloomberg journalist Mark Bergen. He’s the author of Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic ...
Facebook's White Supremacist Problem
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Tech Transparency Project (TTP), a research initiative of the nonprofit Campaign for Accountability, is focused on holding major tech companies to...
Judging Platform Responses to Election Mis- and Disinformation
28 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In last Sunday’s podcast, I promised an occasional series of discussions on the relationship between social media, message apps and election mis- an...
Challenge Yields Experimental Interventions to Strengthen U.S. Democracy
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A little more than a year ago, a coalition of multidisciplinary researchers at Stanford, MIT, Northwestern, the University of Pennsylvania and Columbi...
The True Costs of Election Mis- and Disinformation
21 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With the U.S. midterm election cycle about to kick into high gear, social media platforms are announcing updates to their civic integrity policies and...
Reading the Propagandists' Playbook: A Conversation with Francesca Tripodi
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When most people think about the problem of mis- and disinformation, they think first of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. But how mig...
Mexican Loan Apps, Extortion, and the Google Play Store
14 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In recent months, press reports have emerged about individuals in multiple countries falling victim to extortion and fraud schemes enabled by often hi...
Young Advocates for California's Age Appropriate Design Code
07 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this year in California, two State Assembly members— Democrat Buffy Wicks and Republican Jordan Cunningham— introduced the California Age ...
Social Media and White Racial Socialization
31 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features two segments. First up, an interview with Solana Larsen and Bridget Todd, two of the folks behind Mozilla’s Internet Health Re...
Expanding Antimonopoly Thinking to Pursue Social, Racial and Economic Justice
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode of the podcast, we’re going to hear from FTC Chair Lina Khan, who was appointed in June 2021, as well as FTC Commissioner Rebec...
Prospects for the American Data Privacy and Protection Act
24 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On Wednesday, July 20, the United States House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee held a markup that included H.R. 8152, the "American...
Internet for the People: A Conversation with Ben Tarnoff
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features a conversation with the author of a new book that makes a compelling argument for the substantial deprivatization of the Interne...
Scoring Social Media Platforms on LGBTQ Safety Issues
17 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For the second year running, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation- GLAAD- has released a Social Media Safety Index that finds that major ...
India Cracks Down on Online Expression
10 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
India is the world’s most populous democracy, and also one that is facing challenges. This week we focus on the Indian government’s efforts to cre...
Reporting on Disinformation
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At this year’s Collision, a tech conference that took place in June in Toronto, Tech Policy Press editor Justin Hendrix had the opportunity to inter...
AI and Criminal Justice: A Conversation with Renée Cummings
03 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the areas where applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence are most fraught with ethical concerns is in law enforcement and c...
Countering Disinformation in the French Election
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the age of social media and disinformation, journalists, civil society groups, researchers, and media watchdogs in democracies are figuring out how...
Peering Inside the Platforms
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode focuses on how best to create mechanisms for outside scrutiny of technology platforms. The first segment is with Brandon Silverman, the f...
Scrutiny for YouTube
19 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights released a report on YouTube that Tech Policy Press Editor Justin Hendrix helped write w...
Rescuing the Future from Silicon Valley: A Conversation with Dave Karpf
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to visions of the way that technology will intersect with society in the future, Silicon Valley has a near monopoly. It’s been nearly ...
A Conversation with Filmmaker Nanfu Wang
12 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On the Tech Policy Press podcast we talk a lot about the intersection of technology, media and politics. We talk about the flow of information and how...
Responding to Climate Disinformation: A Conversation with Jennie King & Michael Khoo
11 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The latest reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) do not mince words. They say that “climate change is causing dangerous ...
Social Media and Vaccine Misinformation
05 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to simmer, there is a good amount of science emerging about the relationship between the information environme...
Do We Really Want Sanitized Platforms?
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to content moderation and the regulation of harmful content on social media, there are various metaphors at play for how to think about ...
A Dictator's Son Wins in the Philippines
29 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week the Philippine Congress declared Ferdinand Marcos Jr. the winner of the recent election, confirming that he will become the country's next p...
Charting the Future of Tech Accountability
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For the past six years, an independent research program at New America called Ranking Digital Rights has evaluated the policies and practices of some ...
Is Web3 the Answer? A Conversation with Gilad Edelman
22 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The June cover story for Wired magazine is on a movement in tech that many see as having the potential to rewire not just the internet, but to produce...
Rohingya Refugees Seek Reparations from Facebook
15 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
UN human rights experts that chronicled Facebook’s role in spreading hate speech in Myanmar concluded that it played a “determining role” in the...
Rethinking Far-Right Online Radicalization
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Researchers Alice Marwick, Benjamin Clancy, and Katherine Furl this week released Far-Right Online Radicalization: A Review of the Literature, an anal...
The Power of the Platforms with Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
08 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past year of publishing this podcast, we’ve looked again and again at the issue of the power of tech platforms in society. Now, there is a ...
Facebook's Legal Woes
01 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you take the time to look at the SEC filings for Meta Platforms, Inc. - the company that operates Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp - you will find ...