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🎙 NEW: 'India's Critical Voices Face Increased Censorship' Tech Breakdown #IndianElections special panel Manasa Narayanan in discussion with Meghnad S, Saurav Das, Dr. Ritumbra Manuvie & Archis Chowdhury From the latest move to demonetise YouTube videos of certain creators, abuse of information laws to take down whole channels, flooding of digital space with pro-BJP shadow advertisements, to making use of politician friendly influencers and shutting out critical voices, they speak about the increasing digital censorship and control India is experiencing at the hands of the Indian government - specifically what we've seen in the run up to #2024IndianElections - aided and enabled by US-based social media platforms. They also talk about hate and disinformation spread via WhatsApp and other messaging apps, and what has been seen of deepfakes so far. Catch the episode here ⤵ https://lnkd.in/e7uAbnpy

🚨 We joined more than 200 civil-society organizations, researchers & journalists have sent a letter to the top executives of leading social-media platforms calling on them to protect democratic elections worldwide in 2024. Our demands are simple ⬇️ 1️⃣Invest in greater platform integrity, by reinstating election-integrity policies and staffing up critical platform integrity teams. 2️⃣ To the extent that platforms permit political advertising, swiftly enforce rules against election lies and hate in political advertising. 3️⃣Require disclosure of AI-generated political content, including ads, prohibiting the use of deepfakes in political ads, algorithmically promoting factual elections content. 4️⃣Place greater friction to reduce the visibility and easy distribution of election-related content that has been flagged and is awaiting review. 5️⃣Hold influencer, public figure, and political candidate accounts to the same moderation and enforcement standards as everyone else. 6️⃣Improve transparency and enable civil society oversight of enforcement practices by regularly sharing virality and enforcement reports. ❗Learn more about why we’re making these demands at https://lnkd.in/egT2_jRK

🎙 NEW 'What is it to be a woman in the digital age' Latest on #TechBreakdown, Manasa Narayanan, Dr Eleanor Drage & Dr Kerry McInerney discuss how to use the lens of feminism to think about technology Produced in partnership with The Good Robot podcast https://lnkd.in/emYCfP82 Watch now!

🎙 NEW 'What is it to be a woman in the digital age' Latest on #TechBreakdown, Manasa Narayanan, Dr Eleanor Drage & Dr Kerry McInerney discuss how to use the lens of feminism to think about technology Produced in partnership with The Good Robot podcast https://lnkd.in/emYCfP82 Watch now!

📢 New year and #TechBreakdown comes to you a bit refreshed! Catch our latest where host Manasa Narayanan and Design It For Us's co-chair Zamaan Qureshi talk about the youth movement taking on Big Tech - from staging a protest at a US Senate hearing on social media harms to driving crucial policy change with KOSA & other legislation They also speak about Zuckerberg's apology stunt & why that rings hollow. Partnered with Design It For Us https://lnkd.in/ei5FDMnt

The Real Facebook Oversight Board (RFOB) is hiring remote interns for Spring 2024 👇 RFOB is a group of prominent global experts, journalists, and academics, some of whom are the company’s fiercest critics, looking to hold Facebook to account (NBC). Our flagship research, the Facebook Receipts, is designed to expose Facebook’s activity in Washington D.C. and around the globe as it attempts to influence legislation and regulation. The goal is to pull back the curtain on Facebook’s influence operations that it tries to conceal from public view. Interns will work specifically on this project. Applications are due by February 5, 2024. View the full posting: https://lnkd.in/ePRpckZH

In this episode of Tech Breakdown, internet studies scholar Dr Safiya Noble and journalist Manasa Narayanan consider how technologies like search engines, along with AI-powered facial recognition & large language models further biases and serve as tools of oppression. Safiya is an Internet Studies scholar and Professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the founder of the Center for Race and Digital Justice. She is very famously known for her book, Algorithms of Oppression. She is also a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, and was recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for her work on algorithmic discrimination. --- Who are we? The Real Facebook Oversight Board is a diverse global coalition of the most dynamic, creative and critical voices today in civil rights, human rights, social media policy, disinformation research, extremism and the role of social media in society. Learn more about the Real Facebook Oversight Board here: https://lnkd.in/eNSjdkqp What about our parent organisation? The Real Facebook Oversight Board is project of The Citizens, a London-based not-for-profit journalism organisation with a focus on democracy, data rights and disinformation. Sign up to our newsletter and updates about our work here: https://lnkd.in/ep6HFSXu Support our journalism here: https://lnkd.in/eCdiuJsp --- https://lnkd.in/efkrhMfJ

🔴 'From Big Tech to AI, Have We Learnt?' In the latest episode of Tech Breakdown, Manasa Narayanan speaks with Roger McNamee about the latest "breakthroughs" in Artificial Intelligence, and how to think about these developments in the context of our approach towards Big Tech over the years. Roger McNamee is a founding partner of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners. A former mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, he was an early investor in Facebook. But as he saw the growth and transformation of Facebook and the rise of other Big Tech companies, he started coming to terms with the damage it was doing to societies. He wrote a book called ‘Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe’ and now speaks passionately about why and how tech companies should and can do better. Tune in now! 📺 👇 https://lnkd.in/exuv-k3S