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In The News
The Kids are Online: Research-Driven Insights on Child Safety Policy
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February 21, 2025
Key Issues Shaping State-Level Tech Policy
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February 5, 2025
Biden pushed back on Big Tech’s power, and Trump found a few new friends
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January 20, 2025
U.S. Supreme Court Clears way for TikTok Ban to Take Effect
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January 17, 2025
U.S. Supreme Court hearing arguments on TikTok Ban
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January 10, 2025
Push to restrict cellphones in schools ramps up
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January 10, 2025
Ten of the Biggest Issues to Watch in 2025
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January 6, 2025
What to Watch on US State Tech Policy in 2025
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January 5, 2025
The Year of the AI Election That Wasn’t Quite What Everyone Expected
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December 26, 2024
New Developments in State Technology Policy
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December 23, 2024
Lawmakers passed 200+ tech laws in ’24, report finds
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December 12, 2024
Tech Giants Face a Familiar Uncertainty With Trump
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November 7, 2024
AI labels on digital political ads might backfire on candidates, research shows
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October 30, 2024
How AI-generated ads can ‘backfire’ on politicians
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October 20, 2024
Chasing the Online Voter
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October 11, 2024
AI disclaimers in political ads backfire on candidates, study finds
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October 8, 2024
Unpacking the Oral Argument in Murthy v. Missouri
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March 24, 2024
America’s trustbusters wage war on Apple
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March 22, 2024
Economic Report of the President
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March 21, 2024
NC joins other states calling on FTC to strengthen online protections for minors
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March 14, 2024
US lawmakers say TikTok won’t be banned if it finds a new owner. But that’s easier said than done
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March 12, 2024
From deepfakes to targeted ads, how AI may impact 2024 elections
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February 15, 2024
The challenges of regulating social media for child safety
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January 31, 2024
Tech Tank: The State of State Technology Policy
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January 24, 2024
Rules Of The Road For AI In Political Ads
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January 24, 2024
Here are the issues we are all going to be fighting about in 2024
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January 17, 2024
Tech Policy Hour: From AI to privacy to child safety, the impact of technology policy is everywhere
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January 16, 2024
The state of state tech policy | The TechTank Podcast
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January 16, 2024
States get serious about limiting kids’ social media exposure
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January 13, 2024
Maryland looks to harness AI for government use with executive order
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January 8, 2024
December 2023 US Tech Policy Roundup
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January 6, 2024
Unpacking AI warfare in Gaza
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January 2, 2024
The campaign by US states to curb social media will be tested in 2024
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December 20, 2023
A wave of tech laws passed in 2023. Can companies keep up?
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December 19, 2023
States poised to lead the charge on AI policy in 2024
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December 19, 2023
Why fighting deepfakes in the 2024 election is…complicated
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November 27, 2023
Candidates, Bots, and Ballots: How AI is Rewriting Political Advertising
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November 20, 2023
Michigan lawmakers take aim at AI in election ads
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November 16, 2023
If the U.S. wants to boost journalism, it should learn from Canada’s mistakes
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June 27, 2023
Identifying the trade-offs in online age verification
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June 26, 2023
Why Joe Biden’s trustbusters have fallen short of their ambitions
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June 21, 2023
Privacy and kids’ safety are dominating state tech rules in 2023
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June 15, 2023
Microsoft’s Activision Deal Goes Down to the Wire
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May 15, 2023
Antitrust and Big Tech with Matt Perault
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May 3, 2023
Tech Trader – The Outlook for Technology Stocks
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April 4, 2023
Activision Deal Enters Bonus Round Phase
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April 3, 2023
Amidst calls to halt the advancement of generative tech, a chatbot convinced a man to kill himself
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April 3, 2023
Both America’s political camps agree that TikTok is troubling
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March 30, 2023
TikTok’s Rivals Shouldn’t Bank on Ban
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March 23, 2023
Digital Safety and That Section 230 Thing – Conversations from State of the Net (Part 2) [S4E02]
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March 23, 2023
Digital Bridge: You’ve been TikTok’ed — UK’s Ministry of Truth — One ‘kill chain’ to rule them all
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March 23, 2023
TikTok is D.C.’s new boogeyman. Can Silicon Valley’s tactics save it?
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March 22, 2023
Pulling the Plug on TikTok Will Be Harder Than It Looks
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March 21, 2023
TikTok says Biden administration pressuring it to sell company as security concerns grow
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March 17, 2023
Social Media & Teen Anxiety
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March 12, 2023
The Lawfare Podcast: Does Section 230 Protect ChatGPT?
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March 9, 2023
ChatGPT is a content host and creator. Does that make it liable for what it produces?
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March 2, 2023
AI chatbots may have a liability problem
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March 1, 2023
The TikTok bans are accelerating
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February 28, 2023
ChatGPT won’t enjoy same protection under Section 230 as social media, expert says
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February 23, 2023
The Lawfare Podcast: The CLOUD Act Five Years Later
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February 3, 2023
A visit to TikTok’s transparency center
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February 2, 2023
Public Testimony: HB 1391 (Gooditis)
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January 31, 2023
TikTok CEO to testify in D.C. as pressure mounts
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January 31, 2023
Top of the Morning: ByteDance, the Chinese Maker of TikTok
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January 30, 2023
Hawley wants details on TikTok ban
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January 27, 2023
TikTok’s New Defense in Washington: Going on the Offense
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January 26, 2023
Meta restores Trump
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January 26, 2023
TikTok tries to sell ‘Project Texas’ as it fights for survival in the U.S.
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January 26, 2023
Congress on the Sidelines as U.S. Takes on Google
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January 25, 2023
The Lawfare Podcast: When States Make Tech Policy
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January 23, 2023
3 state battlefronts on tech to watch in 2023
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January 4, 2023
The real revelation from the ‘Twitter Files’: Content moderation is messy
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December 14, 2022
States are passing more tech laws when one party holds the keys
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December 8, 2022
Is a ‘Digital Civil War’ on the horizon?
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November 30, 2022
Spending in America’s midterms is breaking records
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November 3, 2022
Big Tech’s hiring splurge makes cost cuts even harder
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October 28, 2022
After Roe, what happens when the rules for online speech are different in each state?
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September 20, 2022
Transparency issues haunt digital ads ahead of midterms
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September 9, 2022
The Federal privacy bill might be a sheep in wolf’s clothing
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August 31, 2022
Big Tech is facing a data privacy squeeze
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August 15, 2022
1 big thing: Baldwin rethinks what she’ll do with all that cash
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August 4, 2022
1 big thing: Tech in crossfire as states fight over abortion info
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August 3, 2022
Want to Hold Instagram Accountable? Call Kim Kardashian or Taylor Swift
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July 28, 2022
Instagram knows you don’t like its changes. It doesn’t care.
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July 27, 2022
Digital Bridge: Russia’s stalled disinformation — Transatlantic data — London’s digital blues
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July 20, 2022
The Fight Over Truth Also Has a Red State, Blue State Divide
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July 10, 2022
Next post-Roe battlefield: Online abortion information
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July 1, 2022
Big Tech’s political ad bans are a big charade
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June 15, 2022
Alito seems cool now with the godfather of anti-tech antitrust
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June 2, 2022
Can You Hear Me? Speech and Power in the Global Digital Town Square
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May 26, 2022
Event video: Texas Social Media Bill (HB20) Media Pop Up Panel
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May 18, 2022
1 big thing: Floodgates opening for Texas “censorship” lawsuits
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May 16, 2022
CTP event video: (How) Should States Regulate Online Content
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April 29, 2022
Wall Street Is Betting That Microsoft-Activision Deal Will Fail
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April 28, 2022
Under Musk, some fear Twitter’s moderation progress could unravel
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April 26, 2022
A better internet is goal of new Carolina center
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April 22, 2022
1 big thing: Regulating online speech is the states’ next tech target
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April 21, 2022
States’ next tech target: Regulating online speech
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April 21, 2022
On Air Today: Center on Technology Policy
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March 4, 2022
Digital Bridge: ISIS disinformation — Transatlantic AI — Legislative update
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February 10, 2022
Dashing of Mark Zuckerberg’s Libra dreams threatens the bigger cryptocurrency bubble
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January 27, 2022
A breaking point for tech antitrust: Highlights from my conversation with Matt Perault and Blair Levin
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January 25, 2022
Conservatives accuse social networks of prejudging Kyle Rittenhouse case
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November 23, 2021
Meta Goes Into Lockdown
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November 16, 2021
Senators go for tech, telecom goodies in defense bill
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November 12, 2021
Facebook Increasingly Suppresses Political Movements It Deems Dangerous
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October 22, 2021
NSI Live: Tech 2020/21: Allies, Enemies, and the Homefront Part 3: The National Security Implications of Antitrust on Apple Podcasts
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October 20, 2021
Why the latest series of Facebook leaks is more politically potent
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October 9, 2021
What Is Facebook Worth to Us?
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October 8, 2021
Facebook Permits Trump PAC Ads That Question 2020 Election Outcome
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October 8, 2021
Facebook may face ‘significant consequences’ from Washington: Former Employee
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October 5, 2021
Instead of restricting political ads on social media, actually address the misinformation in them
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August 24, 2021
Chinese government acquires stake in domestic unit of TikTok owner ByteDance in another sign of tech crackdown
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August 17, 2021
The surprising truth about political ads on social networks
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July 21, 2021
How to cover tech
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July 7, 2021
What lies ahead for Section 230? Highlights from an expert panel discussion
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June 16, 2021
China’s domestic surveillance programmes benefit foreign spies
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April 22, 2021
What’s in a Name? Quite a Bit, If You’re Talking About Section 230
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December 19, 2019
Warren-Zuckerberg feud may boil over to debate night
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October 15, 2019
