For Brookings Institution’s TechTank, I wrote about the innovation in the DSA, and how one particular piece, co-regulatory mechanisms, can be a great way to start thinking through platform governance issues in the United States.
Category: tech policy
Video: Surveying the Hybrid Speech Governance Landscape
On June 27th 2022, I moderated a virtual event for the R Street Institute on the general US landscape of hybrid speech governance institutions and processes. The event featured R Street’s Chris Riley, Ranking Digital Rights’ Natalie Marechal, Digital Trust and Safety Partnership’s David Sullivan and Oversight Board’s Rachel Wolbers. Check out the video below…
Link: Responsible AI Institute – Artificial Intelligence at a Crossroads: Compliance as Ethics
Alongside Molly Nystrom and Shannon Kay, who I’ve been working with as part of the Digital Interests Lab, I wrote a blogpost for the Responsible AI Institute explaining how companies tend to see ethics as compliance, especially when dealing with the thorny issues of Artificial Intelligence. This work started from an idea by Prof. Anne…
Link: Estadao – O dilema das pesquisas das redes
Alongside Claudio Lucena, I wrote a piece published in the online version of the Brazilian newspaper Estadao, on the importance of platforms, and especially Facebook, to open up data for researchers, in order to fix the immense information asymmetry. Only that first step of targeted transparency can lead us to a better position of arguing…
Link: Brookings – Legislative efforts and policy frameworks within the Section 230 debate
Alongside Chris Riley, as a follow-up to our piece earlier this summer on the real and perceived harms that are the basis for Section 230 reform, for Brookings Institution’s TechStream, we wrote a synthesis of the major proposals for reform and how they each stack up against each other.
Link: Brookings – Trump deplatforming decision highlights the impotence of Facebook’s Oversight Board
For Brookings Institution’s TechTank, I wrote a post about the (in)decision of the Facebook Oversight Board on deplatforming former President Trump. Beyond the specifics on the decision, this builds on my previous work on this, the overview of and general takeaways from the Facebook Oversight Board. I make some very pointed critiques of the Board, Facebook and…
Link: Brookings – A guide for conceptualizing the debate over Section 230
For Brookings Institution’s TechStream, I wrote with Chris Riley, a synthesis piece about what the debate over “section 230” actually means, and the types of real and perceived harms that those fighting for reform want to mitigate.
Link: Brookings – Facebook’s Oversight Board makes an imperfect case for private governance
For Brookings Institution’s TechTank, I wrote an overview of and takeaways from the Facebook Oversight Board. I was fortunate to be part of one of its expert meetings in August 2019, and I focused most of my comments while there on the private governance aspect of the process. In this piece I recreate the journey…
Link: Brookings – Four lessons for U.S. legislators from the EU Digital Services Act
For Brookings Institution’s TechTank, Bruna Santos and I wrote an overview of the EU Digital Services Act proposal, and the lessons US (and other) policy makers can learn from it, in terms of intermediary liability. This is the third in our series of articles on intermediary liability legislation, after an in-depth look at the legislative reform proposals…
Press: BusinessInsider – As Facebook prepares to outsource tough content decisions to its new ‘Supreme Court,’ experts warn it still operates within a dictatorship and can’t legislate a better government
I was quoted in this BusinessInsider article about the Oversight Board, as it ramps up its capacity to hear cases, even though its power is limited.