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Data Voids and Warning Banners on Google Search
Research by CPC's Ronald E. Robertson and co-authors, point to the need for greater transparency on search engines' content moderation practices, especially around important events like elections.
Japan’s unique strategy – combining regulatory oversight, resource efficiency, and international partnership – offers a potential blueprint for the world. By GDPi's Charles Mok.
Summit in Paris Looks at AI and the Future of Democracy
The Stanford Cyber Policy Center and the Paris Bar Association hosted a round table discussion on "AI and the Future of Democracy: Challenges and Opportunities," at the Maison du Barreau in Paris.
Join us for a weekly webinar series organized by Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center (CPC). Our speakers include those who focus on policy to others who concentrate on empirical work around cyber issues. There will be both in person and virtual zoom options and attendees can register for all events in the series or single events. Events begin April 1st and run through the end of May.
March 11 | The Power of Purpose-Driven AI: Implications for Design, Adoption, and Policy
How a purpose-driven approach to AI differs from the current industry approach and why it is critical for realizing the widespread adoption and beneficial impact we hope to see from AI. With Nathanael Fast, PhD.
February 25 | Adolescents, Literacy, and Health: Implications for Cyber Policy
Opportunities and challenges from the perspective of health services and policy research and implications for efforts to promote positive youth development. With Jonathan D. Klein.
The Program on Platform Regulation focuses on current or emerging law governing Internet platforms, with an emphasis on laws’ consequences for the rights and interests of Internet users and the public.
The Stanford Social Media Lab works on understanding psychological and interpersonal processes in social media. The team specializes in using computational linguistics and behavioral experiments to understand how the words we use can reveal psychological and social dynamics, such as deception and trust, emotional dynamics, and relationships.
The Program on Democracy and the Internet seeks to promote research, convenings, and courses that engage with the challenges new technologies pose to democracy in the digital age.
The mission of the Global Digital Policy Incubator at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center is to inspire policy and governance innovations that reinforce democratic values, universal human rights, and the rule of law in the digital realm.
The Program on Governance of Emerging Technologies aims to build a path for future research and policymaking in order to explore the impacts of emerging technologies on democratic governance, rule of law, and socioeconomic inequality.
Texas and Florida are telling the Supreme Court that their social media laws are like civil rights laws prohibiting discrimination against minority groups. They’re wrong.
(Lawfare)
President of France, Emmanuel Macron has announced his intention to regulate minors' access to screens, whether on phones, computers, tablets, or even game consoles. It has brought together a group of experts, including Florence G'sell of the Program on Governance of Emerging Technologies.
Daphne Keller of the Program on Platform Regulation, and Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Director of the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy at Stanford, have filed an amicus "friend of the court" brief in the NetChoice Supreme Court case(s)
New work in Nature Human Behaviour from SIO researchers, with other co-authors looks at how generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools have made it easy to create realistic disinformation that is hard to detect by humans and may undermine public trust.
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) has bipartisan support from nearly half the Senate and the enthusiastic backing of President Joe Biden, but opponents fear the bill would cause more harm than good for children and the internet.
Schaake will serve alongside experts from government, private sector and civil society, and will engage and consult widely with existing and emerging initiatives and international organizations, to bridge perspectives across stakeholder groups and networks.
Decentralized social networks may be the new model for social media, but their lack of a central moderation function make it more difficult to combat online abuse.
The Journal of Online Trust and Safety published peer-reviewed research on privacy, deepfakes, crowd-sourced fact checking, and what influences online searches.
Marietje Schaake’s résumé is full of notable roles: Dutch politician who served for a decade in the European Parliament, international policy director at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center, adviser to several nonprofits and governments. Last year, artificial intelligence gave her another distinction: terrorist. The problem? It isn’t true. (From the New York Times)
On July 28, 2023, Stanford University and the Stanford Internet Observatory filed an amicus brief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the Missouri v. Biden appellants.
Led by former Prime Minister of New Zealand Rt. Hon. Dame Jacinda Ardern, a delegation from the Christchurch Call joined Stanford scholars to discuss how to address the challenges posed by emerging technologies.
New report finds an increasingly decentralized social media landscape offers users more choice, but poses technical challenges for addressing child exploitation and other online abuse.
