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New Report Provides Inside Look and Lessons from Monitoring COVID-19 Anti-Vaccine Narratives
The Virality Project final report finds recycled anti-vaccine narratives and viral content driven by recurring actors.
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Paper from the Content Policy and Society Lab
Op-Ed | Challenges of Content Governance in the Metaverse
Unheard Voice: Evaluating five years of pro-Western covert influence operations (TAKEDOWN)
A Front for Influence: An Analysis of a Pro-Kremlin Network Promoting Narratives on COVID-19 and Ukraine (TAKEDOWN)
Daphne Keller and ACLU File Comment to Meta Oversight Board in "UK Drill Music" Case
The Program on Platform Regulation's Daphne Keller worked with the ACLU to file this comment to the Meta Oversight Board's "UK Drill Music" case.
What Is at Stake in the US–China Technological Relationship?
Graham Webster has authored a chapter in the forthcoming book from Harvard University Press, The China Questions 2: Critical Insights into US-China Relations
Mind Farce: An Investigation into an Inauthentic Facebook and Instagram Network Linked to an Israeli Public Relations Firm (TAKEDOWN)
The Law of Democracy, Legal Structure of the Political Process
Testimony by Renée DiResta to the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Elections
“A Growing Threat: Foreign And Domestic Sources Of Disinformation”
Governing artificial intelligence in the public interest
Getting Transparency Right
Transparency is essential to getting every other part of platform regulation right. But defining sound transparency rules—identifying what information is needed most from platforms like Twitter or YouTube, and how to get it—is quite complicated.
Effectiveness of vaccination mandates in improving uptake of COVID-19 vaccines in the USA
Lawful but Awful? Control over Legal Speech by Platforms, Governments, and Internet Users
Responding to Elon Musk’s proposed acquisition of Twitter, Daphne Keller suggests that “middleware” models, not common carriage rules, best put control over internet speech regulation in the hands of users.
Medical Device Security Offers Proving Ground for Cybersecurity Action
Published in Lawfare
Slanted Narratives, Social Media, and Foreign Influence in Libya
Gabufacturing Dissent: An in-depth analysis of Gab
Gab was founded in 2016 as an uncensored alternative to mainstream social media platforms. Stanford Internet Observatory’s latest report looks at behaviors and dynamics across the platform.
Achieving Allied Resiliency Against Threats to the Semiconductor Supply Chain
Exceptions in new US state privacy laws leave data without security coverage
Published in the International Association of Privacy Professionals
Testimony of Daphne Keller to Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law
On May 4th, in front of the Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, Nate Persily, James B. McClatchy Professor Of Law and codirector of the Stanford Cyber Poicy Center called upon the Subcomittee to enact legislation to ensure data relevant to contemporary social problems is unlocked, so researchers can study how big these problems are and seek to solve them.
Cybersecurity and the ‘Good Cause’ Exception to the APA
Published in Lawfare
Key data security insights from FTC CafePress settlement
Published in the International Association of Privacy Professionals
Automated Content Moderation: A Primer
A primer on the predictive models used for automated content moderation, known as classifiers, published by the Program on Platform Regulation
US courts mixed on letting data breach suits go forward
Senior policy advisor Jim Dempsey analyzes application of the constitutional rules for access to federal courts in recent data breach.
What to Make of Microsoft’s Year in Cybersecurity
For Lawfare, Andrew Grotto looks at a new cybersecurity offering for federal government customers called the Modern Log Management Program.
Seven tips for spotting disinformation related to the Russia-Ukraine conflict
A disinformation researcher shares what she and her team watch for when analyzing social media posts and other online reports related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine (originally appeared in Stanford News)