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Reducing the Cyber Risk to Cities (New America)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 11/01/2018 - 12:03How False News Haunted the Brazilian Elections (New America)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 11/01/2018 - 12:02The Transparency Reporting Toolkit: Content Takedown Reporting
As the internet has become an increasingly important tool for free expression around the world, major platforms and networks that carry that expression have assumed the role of speech gatekeepers, often removing or blocking users' content for various legal or policy reasons. Currently, some internet and telecommunications companies disclose some data on how much content they are removing and why in their transparency reports.
Why Diversity Should Be a Part of the Media-Merger Conversation
Major changes are afoot in Hollywood, spurred by a pattern of rapid corporate media consolidation. While these mergers have received critical attention, the conversation has largely ignored something else big: the implications that this media maneuvering may have for diversity in media representation. More specifically, given Hollywood’s historically barbed relationship with onscreen diversity, it makes sense to ask: How might issues of diversity play out in—and affect—the merger review process, if at all? Could it actually make things worse?
It’s past time we regulate how the government collects, stores, and uses citizen data (New America)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 10/18/2018 - 11:44Tweet The Weaponization of Social Media Is Transforming Politics (New America)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 10/11/2018 - 12:14Our Worryingly Uncritical Approach to Social Commerce (New America)
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The Good, the Bad, and the 5G
The buzz over “5G,” the next generation of wireless technology, has been heating up, but most of the hype fails to account for the fact that a robust, innovative, and affordable 5G wireless ecosystem for all Americans will not result from empowering and allocating the best public airwaves to the four nationwide mobile carriers alone.