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In the newsletter today, I asked Gabriel Nicholas & Aliya Bhatia about what the rise of ChatGPT means for people who don't speak English. Our first group chat!! semafor.com/newsletters#te…

Really nice summary of the recent R Street Institute event on Government influence on content moderation that I participated in with Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 Emma Llanso and Kaitlin Sullivan. techpolicy.press/what-should-we…

Please join us virtually on TUESDAY 2/21 @ 9:30 for a live analysis of oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google! With Jonathan Zittrain Dr. Mary Anne Franks Mike Godwin 🇺🇸 Emma Llanso James Grimmelmann Gus Hurwitz Volokh Conspiracy jkosseff Alan Rozenshtein hosted by Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society rebootingsocialmedia.org/events/gonzale…

This Friday, we’re honored to have the great Asha Allen from Centre for Democracy & Technology Europe at our lunch seminar to discuss the EU’s attempts to tackle #GenderBasedViolance online. See her piece on the #DSA verfassungsblog.de/dsa-intersecti…

📻 On the radio: "[WNYC 🎙's On the Media] reporter Micah Loewinger digs into what happened, and where the conversation over the [online speech] rules of the world wide web might go next, featuring:" * Center for Democracy & Technology's Emma Llanso * Emily Birnbaum * Mark Joseph Stern wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/s…

Totally thrilled to join White House Office of Science & Technology Policy at a time when public values are at the center of every discussion about tech and data. Such a privilege to join Alexander Macgillivray Denice W. Ross & the rest of the CTO team as President Donald J. Trump doubled down on commitments to equity & privacy for all Americans

If platforms shouldn't optimize just for engagement, what should they optimize for? We designed an experiment to test selecting Feed content for long term user value, a collaboration between an international group of researchers and Meta. 1/3 wired.com/story/platform…

Recently, TikTok US launched an in-person Transparency Center in LA, where visitors can learn more about TikTok and how it operates. This is a refreshing take on the usually dense text-based reports, so why is its effectiveness limited? A post-visit reflection 🧵 1/

🚨 BREAKING: Today’s executive order from President Donald J. Trump is a major step forward on #spyware. By committing to refrain from using dangerous spyware other governments have abused, the U.S. sets a powerful example. #surveillance whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

.Center for Democracy & Technology is delighted to welcome Katherine Maher to its Board of Directors 👏 Maher is the former CEO and Executive Director of Wikimedia Foundation, which owns and operates Wikipedia & other free knowledge projects. cdt.org/press/former-w…

📢 📢 Déjà vu: #EarnItAct passes out of Senate Judiciary Committee on a voice vote, after multiple senators express concerns about the bill’s threat to #encryption and the scope of state litigation it would enable.

Thank you Senator Alex Padilla for entering the letter from 133 human rights orgs, released this week and led by Center for Democracy & Technology, expressing our continued concerns with the #EarnItAct. We'll say it once more – the bill is deeply flawed & should go no further. 🔊🔊 cdt.org/insights/cdt-l…

💡🦾 Today, Center for Democracy & Technology is releasing a new report, “Lost in Translation: Large Language Models in Non-English Content Analysis” – a comprehensive look at how #LLMs try (and often fail) to understand text in languages other than English. cdt.org/insights/lost-…

.Center for Democracy & Technology's Emma Llanso: Civil society from across the Asia-Pacific region highlight the risk that UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳's draft guidelines for regulating platforms could inadvertently bolster digital authoritarianism & anti-democratic regulation. UNESCO must listen to these serious concerns.

65 civil society groups call on Breton to walk back his rash remarks about Internet shutdowns & the DSA. The letter is powerful. The huge signatory list tells us how many activists around the world saw Breton’s remarks as a threat to them where they live. accessnow.org/press-release/…

Arbitrarily blocking online platforms is not justified under the #DSA! Internet shutdowns pose a grave threat to free expression, access to info & freedom of association Centre for Democracy & Technology Europe joins 60+ CSO partners in demanding clarification on Thierry Breton recent comments #fundamentalrights

a fantastic thread on some of the vital work that Center for Democracy & Technology is doing (alongside our wonderful partners!) to center disability rights & justice in tech policy ⤵️🧵

"KOSA would also incentivize Big Tech platforms to engage in even more intrusive data collection, which disproportionately puts trans kids & their families at risk as more & more states move to strip us of our rights/criminalize our kids’ health care, education & very existence."

.Center for Democracy & Technology is delighted to announce the appointment of Kate Ruane as Director of its Free Expression Project 👏👏👏👏👏 Kate succeeds longtime CDT expert Emma Llanso, who after 14 years leading at CDT is transitioning to a role in the federal gov't: cdt.org/press/kate-rua…