Presidents’ Day seems like the right time to talk about presidential power and its limits. Episode 13 of @knightcolumbia.org's podcast "The Bully's Pulpit" examines what happens when the office itself becomes a threat to the First Amendment. 🔊 Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Trump Moves to Stop States From Regulating AI With a New Executive Order
Wrote about agentic AI and human complacency in my latest post for Slow Theory.
The age of agentic browsing is creating a “complacence” problem. Is cognitive atrophy or simply put, intellectual laziness a democracy harm? Would love to hear what you think! open.substack.com/pub/slowtheo...
I hope the code name for this product dev was “Jeff Goldberg”
Today, Reshard Kolabhai lays out some lessons for LPE from the Global South. A focus on Africa, he argues, could helpfully destabilize our narratives about capitalist periods, our assumptions about the links between law and capitalism, and our understanding of progressive development policy.
2025 off to a good start finally (but wonder what they’ll target next)
Hi Daphne! wrote an article examining some of these definitions and how they would apply to “public” aspects of messaging platforms (mostly WhatsApp and Telegram) Also looked into Recital 14’s history and also what dissemination to the public might mean for groups academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
My thoughts on Pluribus, a sci-fi show on Apple TV and how it forces us to think about our own future in the AI “hive mind”. Feel free to add your own existential questions to the mix!
Caution: several spoilers ahead (including episode 3!) open.substack.com/pub/slowtheo...
ISP Fellow @akriti.bsky.social publishes in Oxford Intersections: Social Media in Society and Culture about 'The “Social” Impact of Private Messaging Applications: Charting the Impact of the EU Digital Services Act on New Social Media':
academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
First Amendment nerds, help me find a case! It’s mid-century and a justice (Brennan?) writes a dissent (or concurrence?) that talks about disparate impact on African American speakers, citing studies about differences in language use.
Thank you
🚨Two Futures of AI Regulation under the Trump Administration🚨
The first months of the new US administration have been turbulent, making the future of AI regulation anything but clear. We outline two governance scenarios.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
@floridi.bsky.social @akriti.bsky.social
Wrote about the ambiguity of data transfer provisions in the draft Indian Data Protection Rules for Verfassungsblog. The draft Rules grant unfettered discretion to the executive and raise concerns about India’s own data diplomacy project verfassungsblog.de/cross-border...
Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
TikTok still seems headed for a ban after its Supreme Court arguments
very meta
Honestly would have been more appropriate for Zuckerberg to have made his announcement yesterday so it was on the anniversary of an event his social media platforms helped foment.
Excited to be discussing this on Friday in Paris! Between Meta’s recent announcement on eliminating its current fact-checking ops and the aftermath of elections across the U.S., Europe, and India, there will be a lot to talk about. Thank you for the invitation @hvaloche.bsky.social and Prof Norodom
Thank you so much for organising this and inviting me to speak! Looking forward to Friday.
this is beautiful
bsky.app/profile/joly... and this ofc
reason for being back on @bsky.app - escaping the olfactory ethics discourse
Our Bonnie Kaplan publishes a book chapter about "Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Digital Dermatology"
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
