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The rapid advent of powerful digital surveillance technologies raises questions about the U.S. ability to maintain a balance between security and citizens' rights. Several troubling…

What laws and regulations exist in the U.S. and Australia to address false or misleading information in the media?

A review of Facebook’s past content decisions in Myanmar can guide assessments of when the public interest value of election-related content breaches the threshold of harm. Knowing…

The solution is not to give government or platforms more power to make opaque, arbitrary decisions on content, but to help users protect themselves.

Even if it doesn't lead to action, the threat of regulatory pressure aims to bully social media companies into continuing their hands-off approach to Trump.

The current membership is insufficiently representative, particularly of Southeast Asia, and overwhelmingly American for a body that purports to be global and independent of Facebook.…

Ryan Goodman, Just Security's co-editor-in-chief, recently posed a series of questions to David Kaye, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression.

That depends on how it will weigh Facebook’s community standards and values against global norms in its content-moderation decisions.

This board, for content moderation, may be part of the answer to problems of online speech and censorship. But U.N. Special Rapporteur David Kaye explains that it is only one part.

It's not a "Supreme Court," as Mark Zuckerberg suggested, but it might be the most interesting development in social media self-regulation in a decade.

WhatsApp claims NSO implanted spyware on phones of human rights activists, lawyers, and religious figures. NSO says it can't be sued if it did so on behalf of (undisclosed) foreign…

The first generation (Deepfakes 1.0) was largely used for entertainment purposes. The next generation (Deepfakes 2.0) is far more convincing and readily available.