18 Sep

The U.S. Congress is considering new rules to address the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in elections. The proposed rules would require campaigns and political parties to disclose when they use AI to target voters or spread messages online. The rules would also ban the use of deepfakes, AI-generated videos that can be used to spread misinformation or impersonate candidates. Supporters of the...

22:35 / 2024 / Election Law / Technology
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06 Dec

Recently, a Nevada grand jury charged six Republicans who claimed to be presidential electors in the 2020 election and submitted false certificates to Congress asserting that Donald Trump had won in their state. Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford launched an investigation earlier this fall and stated that "today's indictments are the product of a long and thorough investigation." The...

22:43 / Free Speech / Technology / Video
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11 Oct

Days after Mark Zuckerberg planted his flag in favor of free speech by announcing that Facebook wouldn’t censor political advertising, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, apparently bowing to pressure from his platform’s largely liberal user base, announced a contrary policy: Twitter will no longer accepthttps://ift.tt/eA8V8J Source: Free Speech Means Free Speech...

20:55 / Facebook / Free Speech / political ads / Technology / vblog
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17 Sep

Transparency in political ads is vital to ensuring safe and fair elections, but transparency is difficult if advertisers are not required to disclose details about targeting and sources of funding.Source: New Tool to Analyze Political Advertising on Facebook Reveals Massive Discrepancies in Party Spending on Presidential Contest...

01:27 / Campaign Finance / disclosure / Technology / vblog
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14 Sep

If you saw a new popup message when you opened Facebook recently, don’t worry: It’s not a hoax. In a bid to make up for, eh, letting the Russians run rampant on its platform before the last presidential election, Facebook has launched a poll worker recruitment drive this weekend.Source: No, You’re Not Seeing Things. Facebook Has Launched a Poll Worker...

01:27 / 2020 / election administration / Technology / vblog
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23 Jun

Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn penned a letter to Attorney General William Barr Monday urging the Department of Justice to conduct a thorough antitrust investigation into Google’s monopolistic power over the internet after the tech giant’s recent attack on The Federalist.Source: Blackburn Pushes DOJ To Examine Google's Power Over Free Speech...

23:27 / Free Speech / Technology / vblog
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23 Jun

The current rules regulating free speech and the "monopoly social media” (Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, Google/YouTube -- together, the MOSM) are a mess, but the basic principles should be obvious. They should be treated as the new public square, and subject to First Amendment requirements.Source: Big Tech Monopolies Are a Threat to First Amendment...

23:27 / Free Speech / Technology / vblog
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19 Jun

YouTube’s controversial “hate speech” and “harassment” rules have greatly restricted what users are allowed to say on the platform by dishing out harsh punishments for jokes, criticism, and other types of language that YouTube decides has gone “too far.Source: YouTube CEO: We’ll remove “hate speech” from elected officials but media outlets are allowed to reupload it with their own “context”...

16:27 / Free Speech / Technology / vblog
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