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Oversight Board’s First Rulings Show Facebook’s Rules Are a Mess
The company’s inability to enact a clear, consistent, transparent content-moderation policy may lead the board to overturn the decision to bar Trump.

Myanmar is Experiencing a Digital-Age Coup – Tech Companies Must Push Back
Since taking power, Myanmar's military has limited access to social media, and at times cut internet service overall. What can tech companies do to resist?

A Key Step in Preventing a Future SolarWinds
Federal action is needed to establish a cloud security certification that can applies across the ecosystem of information and communications technology.

De-platforming Is a Fix, But Only a Short-Term One
Conspiracy theorists and disinformation remain in the world and online. At the end of the day, solving that problem will require more than just a technical solution.

The Demise of Arms Control Extends Far Beyond Nuclear Weapons
Bilateral and multilateral mechanisms are disintegrating amid tech advances, and “grey zones” below military conflict thresholds are ripe for exploitation.

De-platforming Following Capitol Insurrection Highlights Global Inequities Behind Content Moderation
De-platforming is a window on the unequally distributed power and embedded assumptions that determine what content gets to stay online.

Reconsidering the Digitalization of International Criminal Justice
Tech is heralded as a way to increase access and participation in international justice. But what are the costs of these digital justice mechanisms?

A Capitol Riot and Big Tech Takes a Stand: But Is It the One We Want?
To solve the numerous challenges linked to content moderation, the spread of incitement to violence, censorship etc., we certainly need standards based on human rights law, but…

December Brought Harbingers of the Regulation Social Media Companies Could Soon Face
Are the winds changing for data-intensive companies, and what is the prevailing mood of technology regulators on both sides of the Atlantic heading into 2021?

The UDHR, Digital Authoritarianism, and Human Rights after Trump
"A simple return to an imagined world of pre-Trump human rights is not enough."

A Post-Election Trump Firing Makes the Case for an Independent, Regulatory CISA
Incoming President Biden and Congress should seize the moment of the agency’s high profile to strengthen its role in protecting critical US infrastructure.

Saudi Arabia’s MBS Served with Extrajudicial Killing Lawsuit – Via WhatsApp
Electronic service of process -- including via social media -- has become an increasingly common practice. Gone are the days of the pizza delivery ruse.