The Tech Policy Press Podcast
Episodes
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 ...