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Can Data Centers Ever Be Good Neighbors?

AI Ads Are Popular in the 2026 Midterms, but State Laws Haven’t Stopped a Lack of Disclosure

AI Ads Are Popular in the 2026 Midterms, but State Laws Haven’t Stopped a Lack of Disclosure

AI Political Ads Warp Reality Ahead of US Midterms

AI Political Ads Warp Reality Ahead of US Midterms

US Midterm Elections 2026: Traditional TV Ads May Be Over, TikTok and Podcasts Are Changing Political Campaigns

AI Political Ads Warp Reality Ahead of US Midterms

What Virginians Are Saying: State & Environmental Leaders Praise Governor Spanberger’s Plan to Hold Data Centers Accountable

Spanberger Takes Unusual Step to Limit Data Centers – Up to a Point

As Campaign Season Gears Up, AI-Generated Ads Are Everywhere

As Campaign Season Gears Up, AI-Generated Ads Are Everywhere

Blakeman Is Releasing Generative AI Campaign Videos, Embracing Trend Experts Say Has Little Effect

State AI Deepfake Laws Face First Big Test in 2026 Midterm Elections

Data Centers Have United Americans of Both Parties in a Shared Hatred

States Keep Passing AI Laws Despite Trump’s Push to Stop Patchwork

Questions Over AI Campaign Parodies Rise as Regulations Struggle to Control It

Backlash Against Building Data Centers Near Neighborhoods

Vermont Mandates AI Labels on Election Deepfakes – But Research Shows They Might Backfire

AI Videos of Fake NYPD-ICE Clashes Spread in a ‘Perfect Storm’ for Propaganda

More State Tech Policy Than You Can Poke a Stick At

Meta’s New AI Privacy Policy Allows Targeted Ads, Possibly Political Ads, Based on Chats with Bots

AI Regulatory Governance in 2026

States Plan to Continue Regulating AI, Despite Trump’s Order

The Little-Known Regulatory Bodies That Can Make or Break AI Data Centers

Lawmakers Revved Up Tech Policy Pursuits in ’25

Michigan Offers Handouts for Data Centers Promising Jobs. Will Those Jobs Come?

Tech Workers Face New H-1B Scrutiny as Trump Targets ‘Censorship’

Public Utility Commissions Under Microscope as Proxy AI Regulators

Lies, Damned Lies and AI: The Newest Way to Influence Elections May Be Here to Stay

How US States Are Shaping AI Policy Amid Federal Debate and Industry Pushback

Tech Roundup Episode 27 – AI on the Senate Floor: Is It Time for a Moratorium?

The Battle Over Verifying Internet Users’ Ages Is Heating Up

The Kids are Online: Research-Driven Insights on Child Safety Policy

Key Issues Shaping State-Level Tech Policy

Biden pushed back on Big Tech’s power, and Trump found a few new friends

U.S. Supreme Court Clears way for TikTok Ban to Take Effect

U.S. Supreme Court hearing arguments on TikTok Ban

Push to restrict cellphones in schools ramps up

Ten of the Biggest Issues to Watch in 2025

What to Watch on US State Tech Policy in 2025

The Year of the AI Election That Wasn’t Quite What Everyone Expected

New Developments in State Technology Policy

Understanding the DC Circuit Court’s Decision on TikTok

Lawmakers passed 200+ tech laws in ’24, report finds

Trump Says He Will Nominate Kash Patel as FBI Director

Tech Giants Face a Familiar Uncertainty With Trump

AI labels on digital political ads might backfire on candidates, research shows

Three Perspectives on Generative AI in Elections

How AI-generated ads can ‘backfire’ on politicians

Chasing the Online Voter

AI disclaimers in political ads backfire on candidates, study finds

Dr. Scott Brennen of UNC-CH’s Center on Technology Policy Discusses Artificial Intelligence

Unpacking the Oral Argument in Murthy v. Missouri

America’s trustbusters wage war on Apple

Economic Report of the President

NC joins other states calling on FTC to strengthen online protections for minors

US lawmakers say TikTok won’t be banned if it finds a new owner. But that’s easier said than done

From deepfakes to targeted ads, how AI may impact 2024 elections

Guest Scott Brennen from UNC’s Center on Technology Policy

The challenges of regulating social media for child safety

Tech Tank: The State of State Technology Policy

Rules Of The Road For AI In Political Ads

Here are the issues we are all going to be fighting about in 2024

Tech Policy Hour: From AI to privacy to child safety, the impact of technology policy is everywhere

The state of state tech policy | The TechTank Podcast

States get serious about limiting kids’ social media exposure

Maryland looks to harness AI for government use with executive order

December 2023 US Tech Policy Roundup

Unpacking AI warfare in Gaza

The campaign by US states to curb social media will be tested in 2024

A wave of tech laws passed in 2023. Can companies keep up?

States poised to lead the charge on AI policy in 2024

Will Generative AI Reshape Elections?

Why fighting deepfakes in the 2024 election is…complicated

Candidates, Bots, and Ballots: How AI is Rewriting Political Advertising

Michigan lawmakers take aim at AI in election ads

Lawmakers Guilty of ‘Do Something Disease’ with Social Media Bans

Ways to Protect Children Online

If the U.S. wants to boost journalism, it should learn from Canada’s mistakes

Identifying the trade-offs in online age verification

Why Joe Biden’s trustbusters have fallen short of their ambitions

Privacy and kids’ safety are dominating state tech rules in 2023

Microsoft’s Activision Deal Goes Down to the Wire

Antitrust and Big Tech with Matt Perault

Tech Trader – The Outlook for Technology Stocks

Activision Deal Enters Bonus Round Phase

Amidst calls to halt the advancement of generative tech, a chatbot convinced a man to kill himself

Both America’s political camps agree that TikTok is troubling

TikTok’s Rivals Shouldn’t Bank on Ban

Digital Safety and That Section 230 Thing – Conversations from State of the Net (Part 2) [S4E02]

Digital Bridge: You’ve been TikTok’ed — UK’s Ministry of Truth — One ‘kill chain’ to rule them all

TikTok is D.C.’s new boogeyman. Can Silicon Valley’s tactics save it?

Pulling the Plug on TikTok Will Be Harder Than It Looks

TikTok says Biden administration pressuring it to sell company as security concerns grow

Social Media & Teen Anxiety

The Lawfare Podcast: Does Section 230 Protect ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is a content host and creator. Does that make it liable for what it produces?

AI chatbots may have a liability problem

The TikTok bans are accelerating

ChatGPT won’t enjoy same protection under Section 230 as social media, expert says

The Lawfare Podcast: The CLOUD Act Five Years Later

A visit to TikTok’s transparency center

Public Testimony: HB 1391 (Gooditis)

TikTok CEO to testify in D.C. as pressure mounts

Top of the Morning: ByteDance, the Chinese Maker of TikTok

Hawley wants details on TikTok ban

TikTok’s New Defense in Washington: Going on the Offense

Meta restores Trump

TikTok tries to sell ‘Project Texas’ as it fights for survival in the U.S.

Congress on the Sidelines as U.S. Takes on Google

The Lawfare Podcast: When States Make Tech Policy

3 state battlefronts on tech to watch in 2023

The real revelation from the ‘Twitter Files’: Content moderation is messy

States are passing more tech laws when one party holds the keys

Is a ‘Digital Civil War’ on the horizon?

Spending in America’s midterms is breaking records

Examining Programmatic Political Advertising in the United States

Big Tech’s hiring splurge makes cost cuts even harder

After Roe, what happens when the rules for online speech are different in each state?

Transparency issues haunt digital ads ahead of midterms

The Federal privacy bill might be a sheep in wolf’s clothing

Big Tech is facing a data privacy squeeze

Futures in Digital News Tech

1 big thing: Baldwin rethinks what she’ll do with all that cash

1 big thing: Tech in crossfire as states fight over abortion info

Want to Hold Instagram Accountable? Call Kim Kardashian or Taylor Swift

Instagram knows you don’t like its changes. It doesn’t care.

Digital Bridge: Russia’s stalled disinformation — Transatlantic data — London’s digital blues

The Fight Over Truth Also Has a Red State, Blue State Divide

Next post-Roe battlefield: Online abortion information

Big Tech’s political ad bans are a big charade

Platform Forensics: How Misinformation Content Goes Viral

Alito seems cool now with the godfather of anti-tech antitrust

Can You Hear Me? Speech and Power in the Global Digital Town Square

Event video: Texas Social Media Bill (HB20) Media Pop Up Panel

1 big thing: Floodgates opening for Texas “censorship” lawsuits

CTP event video: (How) Should States Regulate Online Content

Wall Street Is Betting That Microsoft-Activision Deal Will Fail

Under Musk, some fear Twitter’s moderation progress could unravel

A better internet is goal of new Carolina center

1 big thing: Regulating online speech is the states’ next tech target

States’ next tech target: Regulating online speech

On Air Today: Center on Technology Policy

Digital Bridge: ISIS disinformation — Transatlantic AI — Legislative update

Dashing of Mark Zuckerberg’s Libra dreams threatens the bigger cryptocurrency bubble

A breaking point for tech antitrust: Highlights from my conversation with Matt Perault and Blair Levin

Conservatives accuse social networks of prejudging Kyle Rittenhouse case

Meta Goes Into Lockdown

Senators go for tech, telecom goodies in defense bill

Facebook Increasingly Suppresses Political Movements It Deems Dangerous

NSI Live: Tech 2020/21: Allies, Enemies, and the Homefront Part 3: The National Security Implications of Antitrust on Apple Podcasts

Why the latest series of Facebook leaks is more politically potent

What Is Facebook Worth to Us?

Facebook Permits Trump PAC Ads That Question 2020 Election Outcome

Facebook may face ‘significant consequences’ from Washington: Former Employee

Instead of restricting political ads on social media, actually address the misinformation in them

Chinese government acquires stake in domestic unit of TikTok owner ByteDance in another sign of tech crackdown

The surprising truth about political ads on social networks

How to cover tech

What lies ahead for Section 230? Highlights from an expert panel discussion

China’s domestic surveillance programmes benefit foreign spies

Countering the Misinformation Driving Vaccine Hesitation

Fighting the Misinformation Pandemic

What’s in a Name? Quite a Bit, If You’re Talking About Section 230

Industry, Experts, or Industry Experts? Academic Sourcing in News Coverage of AI

Warren-Zuckerberg feud may boil over to debate night

We Live in a Kind of Post-Truth Age Where Science Facts Are Doubted

UK Media Coverage of Artificial Intelligence Dominated by Industry and Industry Sources