Politics
“But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51
“They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Biden Administration
“Vaccine Waiver Pledge Tests Biden-World’s Pharma Ties” [David Sirota, Walker Bragman, and Andrew Perez, Daily Poster]. “The granular details of the waiver will be negotiated by a Biden administration populated by individuals with significant pharmaceutical investments and whose previous employers worked for a panoply of pharmaceutical giants. That includes drugmakers currently lobbying the White House on intellectual property.” • Antony Blinken, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, Anita Dunn, and Steve Ricchetti all have cozy relationships with Big Pharma, as does Biden himself.
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Artificial intelligence is often framed in terms of headline-grabbing technology and dazzling promise. But some of the workers who enable these programs the people who do things like code data, flag pictures, or work to integrate the programs into the workplace are often overlooked or undervalued.
“This is a common pattern in the social studies of technology,” said Madeleine Clare Elish, SM ’10, a senior research scientist at Google. “A focus on new technology, the latest innovation, comes at the expense of the humans who are working to actually allow that innovation to function in the real world.
YPA: Latin America s Infodemic
From political polarization to data voids, panelists discussed causes of and solutions to the spread of disinformation.
Speakers:
Saiph Savage, Director, Civic Innovation Lab and Fellow, Center for Democracy & Technology
Juan Carlos Rodriguez Raga, Co-Director, Observatorio de la Democracia, Universidad de los Andes
Laura Zommer, Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief, Chequeado
Carin Zissis, Editor-in-Chief, AS/COA Online (moderator)
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YPA s first panel of 2021 on the region s infodemic, experts discussed how they work to combat the spread of disinformation amid a pandemic, when false information poses a greater threat than ever before. Aos Fatos
Tai Nalon from Brazil compared the nature of misinformation today to during the 2018 Brazilian general election, noting an increased involvement of politicians in social networks to shape political agendas. Chequado s