I was quoted in this article in The Hill, talking about the dual proposals from Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) and from the Department of Justice, on content moderation. As you can probably tell, I (along with anybody that’s spent more than 2 hours in this area of tech policy) am not a fan of either.
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Link: Brookings – Online content moderation lessons from outside the US
I wrote, along with Bruna Santos, from Brazil’s Coding Rights, a piece for Brookings Institution’s TechTank, highlighting the diverse ways in which other countries (outside the US) handled legislation on content moderation.
Link: GIS Watch 2019 – AI and the Judicial in Latin America
Alongside my colleague Franco Giandana, I co-wrote a report on Latin America for the 2019 Edition of the Global Information Society Watch focusing on the Judicial aspect, both how AI is seen and how it’s being integrated.
Link: SFChronicle Op-Ed on Facebook’s “Supreme Court”
I wrote an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle about the recently-released final charter for Facebook’s External Oversight Board, or as it is called by some, its “Supreme Court”, and how it’s just an empty gamble in the crucial online content moderation space.
Link: SFChronicle Op-Ed on “Data Governance”
I co-authored, with Dr. Susan Aaronson, Director of the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub (where I am a Visiting Scholar) an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle, talking about the lack of US leadership on Data Governance, and how other countries are stepping up to the plate to get it done their way.
Link: WSJ Op-Ed on “Content Moderation”
I co-authored, alongside Danielle Tomson, Director of the Personal Democracy Forum, an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, proposing the inclusion of the multistakeholder ethos of transparency, cooperation and user input, into the very complex issue of content moderation, as part of the conversation over the Alex Jones banning.
Link: Diplo Blog Post on “Gaming Disorder”
The World Health Organization included “gaming disorder” in its June final draft release of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). I wrote about it, and about why that’s not probably the best thing they could have done in my first blog post for the Diplo Foundation.