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Now our nation faces a mental health crisis, it is partly aggravated by the pandemic, the isolation and anxiety and also by the internet and by the tech platforms that drive toxic content at children. as a result of these black box algorithms that nobody understands. literally nobody understands because the tech platforms want to keep them secret. we're trying to upgrade the law and update it to give parents tools to have greater visibility as to what their children are doing and to give parents and children tools to protect them against some of the bullying and eating disorder content and eve...

Efforts to fight online disinformation often give oxygen to the very things they’re trying to fight.

A coalition of more than 60 advocacy groups called on Congress to enact stronger online protections for young Americans. The coalition also denounced Big Tech and its business model that is [...]

0 first of two long and intense days of questioning from members of the senate judiciary committee began this morning with democrats using their questions to allow jackson to issue a rebuttal to republican accusations that she has been soft on crime and republicans pressing her on her record as a judge and public defender and bringing up a whole host of conservative hobby horses. things like critical race theory. jackson has tried to stay above the fray in her responses. early on in the hearing, she told democratic senator, dick durbin, quote, i tried to stay in my lane. along with me are clai...

Pity the poor content moderator. Big Tech platforms expect their mods to correctly apply a set of rules to users in more than a hundred countries, in over a thousand languages. These users are clustered into literally millions of online communities, each with its own norms and taboos. What a task!...