Best Evelyn Douek Podcasts (2024)

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War & Speech E7: The War and the Platforms 28:27

6h ago28:27

28:27

Deborah Brown of Human Rights Watch and Evelyn Douek of Stanford Law talk with Jameel Jaffer about the role that social media platforms are playing in shaping, suppressing, and distorting public discourse about the war. Views on First is brought to you by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Please subscribe and leave a revi…

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War & Speech E6: The Crisis at Columbia 28:09

11h ago28:09

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Jelani Cobb, Dean of Columbia’s Journalism School, and Isabella Ramirez, Editor in Chief of the Columbia Daily Spectator, talk with Jameel Jaffer about the crisis at Columbia, and about the challenges of reporting on it. Views on First is brought to you by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Please subscribe and leave a rev…

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News Update 5/3: An Entirely Substanceless Episode 44:22

2d ago44:22

44:22

Alex and Evelyn discuss the TikTok ban bill, the EU's investigation into Meta for violations of the DSA, the passage of the REPORT Act, and the Supreme Court's denial of a stay of Texas' age verification law.By Evelyn Douek, Alex Stamos

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War & Speech E5: The War Comes for Academic Freedom 28:40

17d ago28:40

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Jameel Jaffer returns to the issue of free speech on campus with Jeannie Suk Gersen, professor of law at Harvard, contributing writer to the New Yorker, founding member of the Academic Freedom Alliance, and co-president of the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard. They talk about the challenges facing academic freedom on college campuses since Oc…

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War & Speech E4: Campus Speech, Double Standards, and Discrimination 29:59

24d ago29:59

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Jameel Jaffer returns to the issue of free speech on campus with Will Creeley, legal director at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). They talk about “cancellations” before and after October 7, the difference between free speech law and free speech culture, and the free speech implications of Title VI, the law that requires u…

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Stanford Internet Observatory's CyberTipline Report 37:08

14d ago37:08

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Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos are joined by Stanford Internet Observatory’s Shelby Grossman to discuss SIO’s just-released report on the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Online Child Safety Ecosystem. Read the report here. SIO is also calling for presentation proposals for its annual Trust and Safety Research Conference. Proposals are due …

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War & Speech E3: A Climate of Repression and Fear 18:15

1M ago18:15

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Radhika Sainath, senior staff attorney at Palestine Legal, talks with Jameel Jaffer about the climate for speech supportive of Palestinians, defining discrimination, and the “Palestine Exception” to the First Amendment. Views on First is brought to you by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Please subscribe and leave a revi…

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War & Speech E2: Campus Speech in the Shadow of the War 34:45

1M ago34:45

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Jameel Jaffer talks with Eugene Volokh, distinguished professor of law at UCLA and soon-to-be senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, about free speech on campus in the shadow of the war in Israel and Gaza. They discuss whether administrators should ban what some students describe as calls for genocide and consider what can be done to protect the …

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Kate Starbird on the Changing Online Landscape and... Basketball 51:46

1M ago51:46

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Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos are joined by University of Washington professor Kate Starbird to discuss research on election rumors. Kate Starbird is an associate professor at the University of Washington in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering where she is also a co-founder of the Center for an Informed Public. - Univers…

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War & Speech E1: How Repressive Is This Moment, Really? 29:07

2M ago29:07

29:07

Jameel Jaffer talks with Genevieve Lakier, professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School and one of the country’s leading theorists of free speech, about the climate for speech in the United States relating to the war in Israel and Gaza. How repressive is this moment, really? Is the First Amendment failing us? And what imprint will the e…

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MC 3/29: It's the Best of Times, It's the Worst of Times, in Platform Transparency 1:10:00

2M ago1:10:00

1:10:00

SHOW NOTES Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: X this week had its lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate thrown out by a Californian district court. It’s a good and important win for free speech. - Emma Roth / The Verge A Kremlin-linked group was spreading di…

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Matt Perault, Ramya Krishnan, and Alan Rozenshtein Talk About the TikTok Divestment and Ban Bill 50:32

2M ago50:32

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Last week the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that would require ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the popular social media app TikTok, to divest its ownership in the platform or face TikTok being banned in the United States. Although prospects for the bill in the Senate remain uncertain, President Biden has said he wil…

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Jawboning at the Supreme Court 51:38

2M ago51:38

51:38

Today, we’re bringing you an episode of Arbiters of Truth, our series on the information ecosystem. On March 18, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri, concerning the potential First Amendment implications of government outreach to social media platforms—what’s sometimes known as jawboning. The case arrived at the Supreme Cou…

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The Supreme Court Hearing on Jawboning 57:54

2M ago57:54

57:54

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek is joined by Professor Genevieve Lakier of the University of Chicago Law School to discuss the Supreme Court oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri. For one of their previous conversations on this topic, listen to this episode from September last year talking about the 5th Circuit’s decision in the case. They also discuss Stan…

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News Update 3/11: Congress Agrees More than We Do on TikTok 56:47

2M ago56:47

56:47

Alex and Evelyn discuss the latest bill to ban TikTok and its many flaws; the Gemini image-generation public relations crisis; Apple's fight-picking in Europe; and Texas and Florida's latest great attempts to regulate online speech.By Evelyn Douek, Alex Stamos

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The NetChoice cases reach the Supreme Court 53:14

3M ago53:14

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Alex and Evelyn are joined by Moderated Content's Supreme Court correspondent Daphne Keller to talk about the oral argument in the NetChoice cases this week and what the Supreme Court justices seem to be thinking about whether and how states can regulate internet platforms.By Evelyn Douek, Alex Stamos, Daphne Keller

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News Update 2/16: The Boy Who Cried Deepfake? 52:05

3M ago52:05

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Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: Is the deepfake apocalypse finally here? Alex and Evelyn discuss the recent robocalls impersonating President Biden ahead of the New Hampshire primary and sexually explicit fake images of Taylor Swift that spread on X, resulting in the plat…

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The Legal & Technical Challenges of Computer-Generated CSAM 46:34

3M ago46:34

46:34

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos talk to Riana Pfefferkorn and David Thiel of the Stanford Internet Observatory about the technical and legal challenges of addressing computer-generated child sexual abuse material. They mention: Riana’s new paper on the topic, “Addressing Computer-Generated Child Sex Abuse Imagery: Legal Framework and Policy…

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Big Tech's Big Tobacco Moment? 40:56

4M ago40:56

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Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos talk about the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Tech CEOs about “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis.” They mention: The Stanford Internet Observatory’s work on Self-Generated CSAM - David Thiel, Renée DiResta and Alex Stamos / SIO The REPORT Act - Riana Pfefferkorn / Tech Policy P…

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MC 1/19: Casey Newton On His Holiday Reading List 54:40

4M ago54:40

54:40

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos are joined by Casey Newton of Platformer and Hard Fork to talk about his decision to move his newsletter off of Substack. Casey explains his decision here: Why Platformer is leaving Substack And talks about it on his podcast here: Why Casey Left Substack Moderated Content is produced in partnership by Stanfor…

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How Are the TikTok Bans Holding Up in Court? 49:27

4M ago49:27

49:27

In May 2023, Montana passed a new law that would ban the use of TikTok within the state starting on January 1, 2024. But as of today, TikTok is still legal in the state of Montana—thanks to a preliminary injunction issued by a federal district judge, who found that the Montana law likely violated the First Amendment. In Texas, meanwhile, another fe…

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MC Weekly Update 12/26: The Show Must Go On 53:52

5M ago53:52

53:52

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: Stanford Internet Observatory’s David Thiel wrote a report documenting Child Sexual Abuse Material in a major dataset used to train AI models - David Thiel / SIO; Samantha Cole / 404 Media Lots of DSA news from the EU: Three new platforms h…

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Jeff Horwitz on Broken Code and Reporting on Facebook 53:58

5M ago53:58

53:58

In 2021, the Wall Street Journal published a monster scoop: a series of articles about Facebook’s inner workings, which showed that employees within the famously secretive company had raised alarms about potential harms caused by Facebook’s products. Now, Jeff Horwitz, the reporter behind that scoop, has a new book out, titled “Broken Code”—which d…

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MC Weekly Update 12/15: Nonsense Statistics 36:07

5M ago36:07

36:07

Alex and Evelyn discuss US military information operations, Threads testing ActivityPub integration, ridiculous statistics about TikTok, YouTube Magic Dust, the Meta Oversight Board moving with all deliberate speed, and First Amendment retaliation claims.By Evelyn Douek, Alex Stamos

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Prof. Alicia Solow-Niederman -- Do Cases Generate Bad AI Law? (2023 Symposium Edition Episode 6) 46:45

5M ago46:45

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This is the sixth and final episode in the special 2023 Symposium Edition Podcast of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our Symposium titled “Accountability and Liability in Generative AI: Challenges and Perspectives." Author: Alicia Solow-Niederman, Associate Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School Commentat…

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Prof. Paul Ohm -- Focusing on Fine-Tuning: New Pathways for Fixing What Is Wrong with Generative AI (2023 Symposium Edition Episode 5) 48:21

5M ago48:21

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This is the fifth episode of six in the special 2023 Symposium Edition Podcast of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our Symposium titled “Accountability and Liability in Generative AI: Challenges and Perspectives." Author: Paul Ohm, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center Commentator: Timothy Wu, Julius Silver Professo…

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Prof. Catherine Sharkey -- A Products Liability Framework for AI (2023 Symposium Edition Episode 4) 41:13

5M ago41:13

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This is the fourth episode of six in the special 2023 Symposium Edition Podcast of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our Symposium titled “Accountability and Liability in Generative AI: Challenges and Perspectives." Author: Catherine Sharkey, Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy, NYU School of Law Commentator: Thom…

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Alice Xiang -- Fairness and Privacy in an Age of Generative AI (2023 Symposium Edition Episode 3) 48:41

5M ago48:41

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This is the third episode of six in the special 2023 Symposium Edition Podcast of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our Symposium titled “Accountability and Liability in Generative AI: Challenges and Perspectives." Author: Alice Xiang, Global Head of AI Ethics at Sony Commentator: Talia Gillis, Associate Professor of Law and Milt…

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MC Weekly Update 12/4: The Chip Crunch Problem 44:55

6M ago44:55

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Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: Elon Musk told advertisers to go f*** themselves in an interview with Jona–... sorry, Andrew Ross Sorkin of the NYT. Is this a good business strategy? - Kate Conger and Remy Tumin / The New York Times Linda doing clean-up on Aisle Elon - Li…

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Prof. Mark Lemley -- How Generative AI Turns Copyright Upside Down (2023 symp. ed. ep. 2) 51:36

6M ago51:36

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This is the second episode of six in the special 2023 Symposium Edition Podcast of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our Symposium titled “Accountability and Liability in Generative AI: Challenges and Perspectives." Author: Mark Lemley, William H. Neukom Professor of Law, Stanford Law School Commentator: Matthew Sag, Professor of…

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Prof. Christopher Yoo -- Beyond Algorithmic Transparency for Generative AI (2023 symp. ed. ep. 1) 49:56

6M ago49:56

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This is the first episode of six in the special 2023 Symposium Edition Podcast of STLR Conversations. We are sharing the recordings of our Symposium titled “Accountability and Liability in Generative AI: Challenges and Perspectives." Paper Author: Christopher Yoo, John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science,…

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Will Generative AI Reshape Elections? 49:03

6M ago49:03

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard a great deal over the last year about generative AI and how it’s going to reshape various aspects of our society. That includes elections. With one year until the 2024 U.S. presidential election, we thought it would be a good time to step back and take a look at how generative AI might a…

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MC Weekly Update 11/21: ClosedAI (Happy Thanksgiving!) 45:28

6M ago45:28

45:28

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: In one of the most surprising (and rapidly developing) tech stories of the year, Sam Altman was ousted as CEO of OpenAI. The reasons are still unclear, and the story still changing as we were recording. But at least partially the story is a…

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MC Weekly Update 11/15: The Big Game 45:05

6M ago45:05

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Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: Alex participated in the fifth Senate AI Insight Forum focused on AI and its impact on elections and democracy. It turns out politicians can be reasonable and bipartisan when the cameras are off. - Oma Seddiq/ Bloomberg Law, Gabby Miller/ T…

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MC Weekly Update 10/30: Warning, This Podcast Might Be Highly Addictive 39:14

7M ago39:14

39:14

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence today. The sweeping EO includes standards setting for generative AI watermarking and red teaming. It will also set rules to mitigate priv…

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MC Weekly Update 10/23: The Enemies of Progress 41:13

7M ago41:13

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Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of venture capitalism firm Andreessen Horowitz and the Netscape web browser, wrote a lengthy blog post with an ode to technology. He also manages to declare trust and safety “the enemy” in the rambling screed…

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The Crisis Facing Efforts to Counter Election Disinformation 57:00

7M ago57:00

57:00

Over the course of the last two presidential elections, efforts by social media platforms and independent researchers to prevent falsehoods from spreading about election integrity have become increasingly central to civic health. But the warning signs are flashing as we head into 2024. And platforms are arguably in a worse position to counter false…

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MC 10/16: Facebook's Ex-Counterterrorism Lead on Moderating Terrorism 34:39

7M ago34:39

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Alex and Evelyn talk to Brian Fishman, the former Policy Director for counterterrorism and dangerous organizations at Facebook/Meta, about the history of terrorism online, the challenges for platforms moderating terrorism, and the bad incentives created by misguided political pressure (looking at you, EU).…

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MC Weekly Update 10/9: Social Media During War 32:38

7M ago32:38

32:38

Alex and Evelyn discuss how the horrific events in Israel over the weekend make clear how important social media is during fast-moving historical events, and how X/Twitter has fundamentally degraded as a source of information. They also discuss China's ramped up crack down on app stores, and the Supreme Court's cert grant in the Netchoice cases, th…

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Talking AI with Data and Society’s Janet Haven 46:22

8M ago46:22

46:22

Today, we’re bringing you an episode of Arbiters of Truth, our series on the information ecosystem. And we’re discussing the hot topic of the moment: artificial intelligence. There are a lot of less-than-informed takes out there about AI and whether it’s going to kill us all—so we’re glad to be able to share an interview that hopefully cuts through…

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MC LIVE 9/28 1:00:26

8M ago1:00:26

1:00:26

Alex and Evelyn record an episode in front of probably their entire active listener base. They talk about an update on SIO's investigations into child sexual abuse material on platforms; the fight for free speech in India; the poor outlook for election integrity at X in 2024, and what this might mean for other platforms; platform transparency manda…

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MC Weekly Update 9/19: The Lawyers Always Win 37:18

8M ago37:18

37:18

Alex and Evelyn discuss reporting on a proposed deal between TikTok and the US government for it to continue to operate in the country, and the broader geopolitical context of US-China relations; how to think about search-term blocking; YouTube preventing Russell Brand from monetizing his videos on its platform; the Musk stories from the week that …

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The 5th Circuit's Jawboning Ruling 49:46

8M ago49:46

49:46

Evelyn sits down with Genevieve Lakier, a Professor at University of Chicago Law School, to discuss the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Missouri v. Biden, narrowing but affirming a district court injunction prohibiting large parts of the federal government from communicating with platforms about content moderation.…

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What Impact did Facebook Have on the 2020 Elections? 45:24

8M ago45:24

45:24

How much influence do social media platforms have on American politics and society? It’s a tough question for researchers to answer—not just because it’s so big, but also because platforms rarely if ever provide all the data that would be needed to address the problem. A new batch of papers released in the journals Science and Nature marks the late…

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MC "Weekly" Update 9/6: We will not be silenced! 53:07

9M ago53:07

53:07

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: OpenAI published a blog promoting how the company’s most powerful large language model, GPT-4, is being used to update platform policy and enforce content moderation rules faster and more consistently than human reviewers. - Priya Anand/ Bl…

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MC Weekly Update 8/8: 11 Dimensional Free Speech Theory 38:50

10M ago38:50

38:50

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: X-Twitter Corner Twitter followed through on its threat to sue the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). The rationale has changed from a violation of the Lanham Act, a federal trademark statute, to a breach of contract and violations …

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MC Weekly Update 7/31: It's Complicated 47:56

10M ago47:56

47:56

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments. They’re joined this week by NYU’s Joshua Tucker and Stanford’s Jennifer Pan to discuss new studies released from an academic research partnership with Meta on the 2020 U.S. election. The X Files Elon Musk reinstated an account that posted c…

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MC Weekly Update: Why? 43:38

10M ago43:38

43:38

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: ActivityPub Hub A new Stanford Internet Observatory report by David Thiel and Renée DiResta found a significant issue with child abuse content in the largest decentralized social media communities that make up the Fediverse. They argue that…

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MC Weekly Update: Hanging by a Thread 49:30

10M ago49:30

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Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: Threads v. Twitter Instagram’s Twitter competitor Threads is the fastest downloaded app, boasting more than 100 million users within five days despite pretty basic features. - Jay Peters, Jon Porter/ The Verge Instagram head Adam Mosseri sa…

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Government<>Platform Communication, Jawboning, and the First Amendment 1:15:36

11M ago1:15:36

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On July 4, a district court issued an injunction prohibiting large swathes of the government from communicating with platforms about content moderation in almost any way. Evelyn sits down with Genevieve Lakier, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, to talk about the opinion, the issue of government "jawboning" of platforms, and …

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