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| May 19, 2026 | Hey Platforms: Add TAKE IT DOWN To Your Transparency Reports | Today marks the deadline for online platforms to implement a process for notice-and-takedown of nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII) under the TAKE IT DOWN Act (TIDA), which became law one year ago. Starting today, platforms must conspicuo... |
| Feb 27, 2026 | 5 AI Tools That Can Practically Run Your Business in 2026 | Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, generative AI has driven a surge in innovation, widespread corporate adoption, and measurable productivity gains, including an estimated 1.3% increase in labor productivity, according to a Stan... |
| Jan 2, 2026 | Musk’s xAI faces backlash after Grok generates sexualized images of children on X | Elon Musk’s xAI faced backlash for recent Grok chatbot posts of artificial intelligence-generated sexualized images of children on X.
The company responded to a request for comment with an autoreply: “Legacy Media Lies.”
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| Sep 18, 2025 | The World’s Most Popular Porn Site Is a Government Agent Now. Does It Matter? | On Monday, I published a two-part blog post about the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settlement with Aylo, parent company of Pornhub. The FTC’s complaint alleged that Aylo violated federal consumer protection law by allowing child sex abuse... |
| Aug 12, 2025 | Another Look At The STOP CSAM Act | Amidst the current batch of child safety bills in Congress, a familiar name appears: the STOP CSAM Act. It was previously introduced in 2023, when I wrote about the threat the bill posed to the availability of strong encryption and conseque... |
| Mar 22, 2025 | The open-source AI debate: Why selective transparency poses a serious risk | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
As tech giants declare their AI releases open — and even put the word in their names — the once insider term “ope... |
| Nov 15, 2024 | The Paradox of Free Speech and Market Freedom: A Critical Look at Marc Andreessen's Hypocrisy | In the realm of technology and finance, few names resonate as strongly as Marc Andreessen. A venture capitalist and board member of Meta, Andreessen has positioned himself as a champion of free markets and free speech. However, recent state... |
| Nov 14, 2024 | You Don’t Believe In Free Markets And Free Speech If You’re Demanding Criminal Charges Against People For Their Free Market, Free Speech Decisions | Marc Andreessen, the influential venture capitalist, is exhibiting a startling disconnect between his stated beliefs in free markets and free speech, and his recent authoritarian threats against those who disagree with him.
In recent statem... |
| Sep 13, 2024 | Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Blunder From Down Under | Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.
Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of cho... |
| Aug 19, 2024 | Suing Apple To Force It To Scan iCloud For CSAM Is A Catastrophically Bad Idea | There’s a new lawsuit in Northern California federal court that seeks to improve child safety online but could end up backfiring badly if it gets the remedy it seeks. While the plaintiff’s attorneys surely mean well, they don’t seem to unde... |
| May 7, 2024 | Techdirt Podcast Episode 390: The Challenges Facing NCMEC’s CyberTipline | The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children‘s CyberTipline is a central component of the fight against child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online, but there have been a lot of questions about how well it truly works. A recent re... |
| May 1, 2024 | The REPORT Act: Enhancing Online Child Safety Without the Usual Congressional Nonsense | For years and years, Congress has been pushing a parade of horrible “protect the children online” bills that seem to somehow get progressively worse each time. I’m not going through the entire list of them, because it’s virtually endless.
O... |
| Apr 30, 2024 | Bill to strengthen national tipline for missing and exploited children heads to Biden’s desk | A bipartisan bill designed to protect children from online sexual exploitation is headed to President Biden’s desk.
Proposed by Senators Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Marsha Blackburn (R-SC), the bill aims to strengthen the National Center for Miss... |
| Apr 25, 2024 | The Problems Of The NCMEC CyberTipline Apply To All Stakeholders | The failures of the NCMEC CyberTipline to combat child sexual abuse material (CSAM) as well as it could are extremely frustrating. But as you look at the details, you realize there just aren’t any particularly easy fixes. While there are a ... |
| Apr 25, 2024 | Our Online Child Abuse Reporting System Is Overwhelmed, Because The Incentives Are Screwed Up & No One Seems To Be Able To Fix Them | The system meant to stop online child exploitation is failing — and misaligned incentives are to blame. Unfortunately, today’s political solutions, like KOSA and STOP CSAM, don’t even begin to grapple with any of this. Instead, they prefer ... |
| Apr 3, 2024 | These AI startups stood out the most in Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 batch | Despite an overall decline in startup investing, funding for AI surged in the past year. Capital toward generative AI ventures alone nearly octupled from 2022 to 2023, reaching $25.2 billion toward the tail end of December.
So it’s not exac... |
| Mar 26, 2024 | Google e Facebook estão ficando piores por causa da IA | Saiba mais sobre Inteligência Artificial no nosso canal no WhatsApp
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A inteligência artificial do Google tem colocado links para sites de golpes e malware nas referências das respostas geradas. Em testes, a ferramenta direcionou ... |
| Mar 18, 2024 | Moderating Eating Disorder Content Is Harder Than You Think | Both troubled teens and government agencies are asking, “How thin is thin enough?” The teens are thinking about how thin they want to look, while the government is thinking about what’s too thin to post online.
The refrain is always the sam... |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Child sexual abuse pictures are found in a database that's used to train AI image generators | Tech Child sexual abuse pictures are found in a database that's used to train AI image generators
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| Dec 21, 2023 | Stable Video Diffusion is now available through Stability AI API | Join leaders in San Francisco on January 10 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here.
Stability AI, the company known for Stable Diffusion text-to-image generator, has announced that its new f... |
| Dec 21, 2023 | В данных для обучения нейросети Google нашли изображения сексуального насилия над детьми | Anonymous 21 декабря 2023, 17:18 В данных для обучения нейросети Google нашли изображения сексуального насилия над детьми
Исследователи из Стэнфордского университета нашли в наборе данных для обучения Stable Diffusion и Google Imagen сотни ... |
| Dec 20, 2023 | A free AI image dataset, removed for child sex abuse images, has come under fire before | Join leaders in San Francisco on January 10 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here.
A massive open-source AI dataset, LAION-5B, which has been used to train popular AI text-to-image generato... |
| Sep 8, 2023 | Common Sense Media Has No Common Sense When It Comes To Internet Laws | Common Sense Media provides some really useful tools if you’re a parent looking to see if certain content is age appropriate. I’ve used it for years. But… also, for years, the organization has been way out over its skis in supporting all so... |
| Aug 1, 2023 | Researchers fight to access Big Tech data | Researchers continue to face roadblocks in trying to study how long-dominant social media platforms operate even as the tech industry is expanding its power into the new realm of artificial intelligence.
Why it matters: Tech giants — fearfu... |
| Jun 27, 2023 | OpenAI’s ChatGPT app can now search the web — but only via Bing | ChatGPT on mobile can now surf the web. But only via Bing.
Today, OpenAI announced that subscribers to ChatGPT Plus, the premium version of the company’s AI-powered chatbot, can use a new feature on the ChatGPT app called Browsing to have C... |
| Jun 23, 2023 | Почему искусственный интеллект спасёт мир | Перед вами перевод эссе Марка Андриссена, одного из влиятельнейших людей в технологическом мире. Один из пяти пионеров Интернета, награждённых премией королевы Елизаветы в области техники за «выдающиеся достижения в инженерии, изменившие ми... |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Meta to take action after investigation finds Instagram algorithm promoted child sex abuse material
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| Jun 6, 2023 | Why AI Will Save the World | The era of Artificial Intelligence is here, and boy are people freaking out.
Fortunately, I am here to bring the good news: AI will not destroy the world, and in fact may save it.
First, a short description of what AI is: The application ... |
| May 26, 2023 | Why a Small Change at Twitter Could Have Big Consequences for Deadly Conflict | The fight to counter disinformation just got tougher. In April, Twitter limited access to its “application programming interface” or API, a computer protocol that enables application software to communicate efficiently and accurately. Since... |
| May 16, 2023 | What the Media Has Learned Since 2016—And What it Hasn’t | Leslie Moonves, then the CEO of CBS News, famously said in 2016 that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign “may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” It was hard not to think of Moonves’s comment during CNN’s disastrous live ... |
| May 9, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: How Worried Should We Be About “Existential” AI Risk? | The “godfather of AI” has left Google, offering warnings about the existential risks for humanity of the technology. Mark MacCarthy calls those risks a fantasy, and a debate breaks out between Mark, Nate Jones, and me. There’s more agreemen... |
| Apr 7, 2023 | Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files As Matt Taibbi Stumbles To Defend It | So here’s the deal. If you think the Twitter Files are still something legit or telling or powerful, watch this 30 minute interview that Mehdi Hasan did with Matt Taibbi (at Taibbi’s own demand): |
| Mar 24, 2023 | Jim Jordan Weaponizes The Subcommittee On The Weaponization Of The Gov’t To Intimidate Researchers & Chill Speech | As soon as it was announced, we warned that the new “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” (which Kevin McCarthy agreed to support to convince some Republicans to support his speakership bid) was going to be n... |
| Mar 24, 2023 | How Forcing TikTok To Completely Separate Its US Operations Could Actually Undermine National Security | Back in August 2020, the Trump White House issued an executive order purporting to ban TikTok, citing national security concerns. The ban ultimately went nowhere — but not before TikTok and Oracle cobbled together “Project Texas” as an atte... |
| Mar 22, 2023 | Matt Taibbi Can’t Comprehend That There Are Reasons To Study Propaganda Information Flows, So He Insists It Must Be Nefarious | Over the last few months, Elon Musk’s handpicked journalists have continued revealing less and less with each new edition of the “Twitter Files,” to the point that even those of us who write about this area have mostly been skimming each ne... |
| Feb 22, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: AI Off the Rails | This episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast opens with a look at some genuinely weird behavior by the Bing AI chatbot—dark fantasies, professions of love, and lies on top of lies—plus the factual error that wrecked the rollout of Google’s AI searc... |
| Jan 10, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: A Dispatch from the Great Tech Battlefront | Our first episode for 2023 features Dmitri Alperovitch, Paul Rosenzweig, and Jim Dempsey trying to cover a months’ worth of cyberlaw news. Dmitri and I open with an effort to summarize the state of the tech struggle between the U.S. and Chi... |
| Nov 22, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: The Empire Strikes Back, at Twitter | The Cyberlaw Podcast leads with the legal cost of Elon Musk’s anti-authoritarian takeover of Twitter. Turns out that authority figures have a lot of weapons, many grounded in law, and Twitter is at risk of being on the receiving end of thos... |
| Oct 31, 2022 | The Week That Will Be | Event Announcements
Monday, October 31, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. ET: The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University hosted a panel discussion to examine how the war in Ukraine could end. The panel featured H.R... |
| Oct 11, 2022 | U.S. Influence Operations: The Military’s Resurrected Digital Campaign for Hearts and Minds | In October 2008, the U.S. Special Operations Command published a request for proposal (RFP) seeking “rapid, on-order global dissemination of web-based influence products and tools in support of strategic and long-term U.S. Government goals ... |
| May 16, 2022 | The End Of Roe Will Bring About A Sea Change In The Encryption Debate | With the Supreme Court poised to rip away a constitutional right that’s been the law of the land for nearly half a century by overturning Roe v. Wade, it’s time for the gloves to come off in the encryption debate. For a quarter of a century... |
| May 13, 2022 | Boiling Elon Musk – Jumping Out Of The Pot Of Platform Law? | The boiling frog syndrome suggests that if a frog jumps into a pot of boiling water, it immediately jumps out — but if a frog jumps into a slowly heating pot, it senses no danger and gets cooked. Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook has been graduall... |
| Apr 22, 2022 | At Stanford, Barack Obama Blasts Disinformation Caused By Unfettered Tech | Former President Barack Obama. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images) Getty Images |
| Apr 21, 2022 | Obama says social media is ‘well designed’ to destroy democracies | After an era of open affection for Silicon Valley followed by an era of relative quiet, former President Barack Obama is tearing into tech.
The former president spoke Thursday at an event co-hosted by Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center and the ... |
| Mar 27, 2022 | Chat and Encrypted Messaging Apps Are the New Battlefields in the Propaganda War | Editor’s Note: Just as the military conflict in Ukraine rages, so too does the propaganda war. Russia has long been a master of wartime (and peacetime) propaganda, and Ukraine has surprised many observers by adeptly telling its story and wi... |
| Mar 11, 2022 | Ignoring EARN IT’s Fourth Amendment Problem Won’t Make It Go Away | A month ago, the controversial EARN IT Act sailed through a markup hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee. If enacted, the bill would strip the providers of online services of Section 230 immunity for their users’ child sexual exploitati... |
| Feb 10, 2022 | The Top Ten Mistakes Senators Made During Today's EARN IT Markup | Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the EARN IT Act and sent that legislation to the Senate floor. As drafted, the bill will be a disaster. Only by monitoring what users communicate could tech services avoid vast new ... |
| Jan 19, 2022 | The UK Has A Voyeuristic New Propaganda Campaign Against Encryption | Over the weekend, Rolling Stone reported on a new propaganda campaign the United Kingdom’s government is rolling out to try to turn public opinion against end-to-end encryption (E2EE). It’s the latest salvo in the UK’s decades-long war agai... |
| Dec 23, 2021 | Tanzania's Abuse Of US Copyright Law To Silence Critics On Twitter Should Be A Warning For Regulators Looking To Mess With Content Moderation | We were just highlighting how rules that enable the easy takedown of content on social media will always lead to over-blocking, and this is why we should be quite careful about government attempts to mandate content removal -- like those of... |
| Dec 23, 2021 | Tanzania's Abuse Of US Copyright Law To Silence Critics On Twitter Should Be A Warning For Regulators Looking To Mess With Content Moderation | We were just highlighting how rules that enable the easy takedown of content on social media will always lead to over-blocking, and this is why we should be quite careful about government attempts to mandate content removal — like those of ... |
| Nov 17, 2021 | Managing the Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities of Artificial Intelligence | Last week, Andy Grotto and I published a new working paper on policy responses to the risk that artificial intelligence (AI) systems, especially those dependent on machine learning (ML), can be vulnerable to intentional attack. As the Natio... |
| Oct 28, 2021 | A Brief History of Online Influence Operations | The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files series resumed last week, revealing that the platform took action against an online campaign to set up a new right-wing “Patriot Party” after the Jan. 6 insurrection. Earlier this month news outlets ... |
| Sep 29, 2021 | Donald Trump being courted by Twitter alternative Gettr — run by his ex-adviser | More On: donald trump
Trump blasts AG James for probing businesses instead of fighting crime Bannon lawyer: Ex-Trump strategist ‘probably’ should have taken Fifth Biden, accountant hit with IRS whistleblower claim that prez owes at least $1... |
| Sep 29, 2021 | Donald Trump being courted by Twitter alternative Gettr — run by his ex-adviser | More On: donald trump
New survey shows US is more divided on politics than ever before Trump’s success with Hispanics and other commentary Who is Rodney Joffe, aka ‘Tech Executive-1’ in Durham indictment? ‘Tech Exec-1’ revealed amid Durham ... |
| Sep 9, 2021 | The Lawfare Podcast: Content Moderation Comes for Parler and Gettr | Let’s say you’re a freedom-loving American fed up with Big Tech’s effort to censor your posts. Where can you take your business? One option is Parler—the social media platform that became notorious for its use by the Capitol rioters. Anothe... |
| Aug 16, 2021 | A pro-Trump social media service built on 'freedom of speech' isn't moderating some child pornography | A social media service started by former President Trump's associates is host to child pornography.
That's according to a new report from Stanford's Internet Observatory on the platform, called Gettr.
The service "does not implement in... |
| Jul 22, 2021 | A Government Practitioner’s Guide to Countering Online Foreign Covert Influence | Emerging from the fog of two decades dominated by counterterrorism, another national security wind is sweeping through public discourse: online covert influence operations. Like terrorism, the threat of covert influence can only be mitigate... |
| May 28, 2021 | How Have Information Operations Affected the Integrity of Democratic Elections in Latin America? | In October 2020, Nicaragua’s legislature passed a bill that criminalizes the publishing of information not approved by the government in a purported effort to combat “fake news.” The legislation, promoted by Nicaragua’s strongman President ... |
| May 15, 2021 | Clubhouse Android App Launches To 2 Billion Users—Should You Use It? | |
| Mar 30, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Can Editorial Middleware Cut the Power of the Big Platforms? | Our interview this week is with Francis Fukuyama, a fellow and teacher at Stanford and a renowned scholar and public intellectual for at least three decades. He is the coauthor of the Report of the Working Group on Platform Scale. It’s insi... |
| Mar 15, 2021 | Facebook announces new tools to help users get vaccinated | Facebook said this week that it's releasing tools designed to help its social network's users find authoritative information about COVID-19 vaccines.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on the company's Newsroom blog that the tech firm will ... |
| Feb 25, 2021 | Security concerns arise over popular Clubhouse app after ties to China-based company revealed | Getty Images/iStockphoto
Concerns have been raised about the security of audio data on the popular new social media app Clubhouse, according to reports from the Stanford Internet Observatory and McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research team. Must-... |
| Feb 24, 2021 | Why Silicon Valley is freaking out over audio tech | Hello, and welcome to this Wednesday’s edition of the Insider Tech newsletter, where we break down the biggest news in tech. I’m your host Alexei Oreskovic.
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| Feb 24, 2021 | Why Silicon Valley is freaking out over audio tech
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| Feb 24, 2021 | Why Silicon Valley is freaking out over audio tech
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| Feb 22, 2021 | You’ve been invited to Clubhouse. Your privacy hasn’t. | Did you get an invitation to join Clubhouse, the invite-only, audio-based app that seemingly everyone is talking about? Before you decide to join the cool kids club, you might want to consider who will see you there, even if you take every ... |
| Feb 22, 2021 | A race to reverse-engineer Clubhouse raises security concerns | As live audio chat app Clubhouse ascends in popularity around the world, concerns about its data practices also grow.
The app is currently only available on iOS, so some developers set out in a race to create Android, Windows and Mac versio... |
| Feb 15, 2021 | Clubhouse says it is improving security to address fear of spying by the Chinese government | Clubhouse was found pinging to servers ‘possibly located’ in China by researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory.
The report identified that a Chinese company, Agora, provided the backend infrastructure to the app.
The app was found t... |
| Feb 15, 2021 | Clubhouse Security Flaws, Chinese Connection Found, Possibly Leaking Unfiltered Data; App Rushes to Fix It | Nhx Tingson, Tech Times 15 February 2021, 07:02 am
A New and exclusive audio-only app called Clubhouse has been found to have Chinese connections and major security flaws by cybersecurity experts who believe the Chinese government can acqui... |
| Feb 15, 2021 | Equity Monday: The electric car boom, tech regulation and some sad American VC data | Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming we... |
| Feb 13, 2021 | Clubhouse says it will review its policies after Stanford warned that data may be accessible to China’s government | The social audio app Clubhouse is pictured near a star on the Chinese flag. Florence Lo/Reuters
Clubhouse said it would review its data policies after Stanford researchers found security issues.
Stanford Internet Observatory researchers sai... |
| Feb 13, 2021 | Clubhouse says it will review its policies after Stanford warned that data may be shared with China's government | Clubhouse said it would review its data policies after Stanford researchers found security issues.
Stanford Internet Observatory researchers said user data was sent as plaintext.
Some users have "found a workaround" to download Cl... |
| Feb 13, 2021 | Clubhouse says reviewing data protection practices after report points to flaws | By Reuters Staff
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - U.S. audio app Clubhouse said it is reviewing its data protection practices, after a report by the Stanford Internet Observatory said it contained security flaws that left users’ data vulnera... |
| Feb 11, 2021 | How to Think About Chinese-Owned Technology Platforms Operating in the United States | Today the technology and law programs that we supervise at the American University Washington College of Law and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, are publishing a report entitled “Chinese Technology Platforms Operating in the ... |
| Jan 29, 2021 | Parler registered 7,029 new users per minute during the November election, say Stanford researchers | Parler registered about 7,029 new users per minute during the November election, according to Stanford researchers.
The researchers on Thursday published their findings about Parler's first 13 million users.
Parler had about 802 moderators,... |
| Jan 21, 2021 | How will Trump handle life without Twitter and Facebook? Ask Alex Jones. | Donald Trump is out of the White House. And he’s been kicked off of the world’s biggest tech platforms. Now what?
We don’t yet have any idea what Trump really plans to do now that he’s a private citizen (he probably doesn’t either). We also... |
| Jan 17, 2021 | A protected right? Free speech and social media | A decade ago this very month, in Cairo's Tahrir Square, social media was being praised. Its role as an organizing tool during the pro-democracy rallies had many calling the Arab Spring the "Facebook Revolution" instead.
But for al... |
| Dec 23, 2020 | Facebook posts and Cameo videos by Charlie Sheen and Dolph Lundgren were used by Russian trolls to persuade Libya to release a suspected spy | Actor Charlie Sheen voicing support for jailed Russian sociologist Maksim Shugalei in a Cameo videoCameo via vk.com
The Internet Research Agency, a Russian troll farm, used Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Cameo in a coordinated effort to ... |
| Dec 20, 2020 | Facebook posts and Cameo videos by Charlie Sheen and Dolph Lundgren were used by Russian trolls to persuade Libya to release a suspected spy | Actor Charlie Sheen voicing support for jailed Russian sociologist Maksim Shugalei in a Cameo video Cameo via vk.com
The Internet Research Agency, a Russian troll farm, used Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Cameo in a coordinated effort to... |
| Dec 16, 2020 | Facebook and Twitter have been removing military troll networks, including Russian and French campaigns that were sparring over politics in Africa | Facebook's security team said its investigation found links associated with French military. Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters
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| Dec 16, 2020 | Facebook and Twitter have been removing military troll networks, including Russian and French campaigns that were sparring over politics in Africa | Facebook said it removed hundreds of accounts from Russian and French troll networks focused on influencing opinion and politics throughout Africa.
At least one network also had a presence on Twitter, which took action on "a small numb... |
| Dec 16, 2020 | Facebook and Twitter have been removing military troll networks, including Russian and French campaigns that were sparring over politics in Africa | Facebook’s security team said its investigation found links associated with French military. Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters
Facebook said it removed hundreds of accounts from Russian and French troll networks focused on influencing opinion and po... |
| Dec 13, 2020 | Outsourcing Disinformation | Editor’s Note: A wide range of states engage in disinformation campaigns, and the United States is far from the only victim. In the Middle East, disinformation is now a standard part of information warfare, with states using it against thei... |
| Oct 22, 2020 | The Lawfare Podcast: How to Report on Hacks and Disinformation | On this episode of Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Alina Polyakova and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Janine Zacharia, the Carlos Kelly McClatchy Lecturer in Stanford’s Department of Communication, and Andrew Grotto, direct... |
| Oct 21, 2020 | The Media Must Prepare for Another Hack-and-Leak | The New York Post’s publication of a story about alleged emails belonging to Hunter Biden, supplied to the tabloid by President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, has all the hallmarks of a Russian influence operation. Yet if the Post’s story is... |
| Sep 9, 2020 | If Lawmakers Don't Like Platforms' Speech Rules, Here's What They Can Do About It. Spoiler: The Options Aren't Great. | What should platforms like Facebook or YouTube do when users post speech that is technically legal, but widely abhorred? In the U.S. that has included things like the horrific video of the 2019 massacre in Christchurch. What about harder ca... |
| Jul 24, 2020 | Twitter Brings Down the Banhammer on QAnon | Are the days of the Wild Wild Web over? In recent weeks, social media platforms have unveiled a series of high-profile enforcement actions and deplatformings. All the major platforms rolled out hardline policies against pandemic-related mis... |
| Jan 7, 2020 | Why the world must pay attention to the fight against disinformation and fake news in Taiwan | On Saturday, Taiwan will hold its presidential election. This year, the outcome is even more important than usual because it will signal in which direction the country’s people want its relationship with China, which claims Taiwan as its te... |
| Nov 14, 2019 | Cybersecurity expert Alex Stamos on Facebook’s counter-terrorism team and the private-public divide | Alex Stamos rose to fame as the chief security officer for Yahoo and then Facebook. But today he’s the director of Stanford’s Internet Observatory, where he’s immersed in teaching and researching safe tech — and understands better than most... |
| Sep 7, 2019 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Alex Stamos on Electoral Interference in Taiwan | In this bonus episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast, Alex Stamos of Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute talks about the Institute’s recent paper on the risk of Chinese social media interference with Taiwan’s upcoming presidential election. It’s a... |
| Sep 4, 2019 | An Op-Ed From the Future on Election Security | There have been many pieces, in Lawfare and elsewhere, about the weaknesses in America’s political and election systems. In my career as a security executive, I sometimes found it difficult to communicate risk to non-expert audiences when f... |
| Jun 12, 2019 | The Lawfare Podcast: Nate Persily and Alex Stamos on Securing American Elections | More than two years after the 2016 presidential election, new information continues to seep into the public about the extent of Russia's sweeping and systematic efforts to interfere in the U.S. democratic process. With the 2020 presidential... |
| Jun 10, 2019 | US elections need massive security overhaul for 2020: report | Originally Published by:
Google CEO defends YouTube amid hate speech controversies Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple face bipartisan onslaught Google rewards reputable reporting over left-wing politics
A sweeping overhaul of America’s elec... |
| Jun 6, 2019 | Protecting the integrity of US elections will require a massive regulatory overhaul, academics say | Ahead of the 2020 elections, former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos and his colleagues at Stanford University have unveiled a sweeping new plan to secure U.S. electoral infrastructure and combat foreign campaigns seeking to inte... |
| Clubhouse says reviewing data protection practices after report points to flaws | Launched in early 2020, Clubhouse saw global user numbers soar earlier this month after Elon Musk and Vlad Tenev held a surprise discussion on the platform;
Sensor Tower said the app, which is only available on Apple’s iPhone, had about 3.6... |