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Policymakers’ Guide to Developing Age Assurance Legislation

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February 11, 2026
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Online Safety and Online Expression, State Technology Policy Observatory
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Policymakers’ Guide to Developing Age Assurance Legislation. By: Scott Babwah Brennen, Lama Mohammed, and Afnan Abbassi After years of debating if and …

Collective Goods but Local Harms: How Data Centers Can Earn Community Support

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July 22, 2026

Between 988 and 911: A New Policy Framework for Violent Planning on AI Chatbots

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June 22, 2026

60 Bills in 60 Days: State AI Companion Proposals

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March 2, 2026

Policymakers’ Guide to Developing Age Assurance Legislation (PDF)

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February 18, 2026

CTP State Technology Policy Report 2025 Appendix

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February 11, 2026

CTP State Technology Policy Report 2025

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February 11, 2026

Do Age-Verification Bills Change Search Behavior? A Pre-Registered Synthetic Control Multiverse

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December 30, 2025

The Hidden Regulators: Public Utility Commissions and AI Governance

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November 20, 2025

Commissioning AI Regulation: Understanding State AI Task Forces

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September 15, 2025

A dangerous plan to ‘win’ the AI race is circulating

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August 28, 2025

We Failed The Misinformation Fight. Now What?

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August 28, 2025

Synthetic Images; Real Feelings: Generative AI and Teen Well-Being

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May 19, 2025

When it comes to understanding AI’s impact on elections, we’re still working in the dark

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March 4, 2025

Mosaics of Insight: Auditing TikTok Through Independent Data Access

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February 21, 2025

Tech Policy Across the State Governance Stack

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February 3, 2025

The State of State Technology Policy 2024 Report

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December 11, 2024

The State of State Technology Policy 2024 Report Appendix

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December 10, 2024

Broadband Affordability: What Should Change?

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October 17, 2024

In Disclaimers We Trust: The Effectiveness of State-Required AI Disclaimers on Political Ads

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October 8, 2024

Will AI Content Labels Work?

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October 8, 2024

Methodological Appendix for In Disclaimers We Trust

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October 7, 2024

Section 230 Legislation Tracker

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April 23, 2024

What Happened to TikTok’s Project Texas?

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March 20, 2024

Model Legislation for Tech Policy Reform

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January 31, 2024

Experimenting with experimentation: 4 model bills for tech policy trials

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January 30, 2024

The State of State Technology Policy 2023

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December 19, 2023

A policy framework to govern the use of generative AI in political ads

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December 11, 2023

Trust the Process: Could jawboning process solve jawboning problems?

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November 27, 2023

The new political ad machine: Policy frameworks for political ads in an age of AI

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November 8, 2023

Musk did at least one thing right in his first year at X

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November 6, 2023

Privacy Law Needs Cost-Benefit Analysis

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October 25, 2023

Jawboned

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October 4, 2023

North Carolina’s New Abortion Law Is Also a Weapon Against Free Speech

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July 18, 2023

To Protect Kids Online, Policymakers Must First Determine Who is a Kid

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July 5, 2023

Rescuing Local News Through Tax Credits: A review of policy in the U.S. and Canada

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June 27, 2023

Keeping Kids Safe Online: How Should Policymakers Approach Age Verification?

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June 21, 2023

TikTok’s Plan to Stay in the U.S. Could Pose a Threat—to U.S. Tech Companies

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March 9, 2023

Section 230 Won’t Protect ChatGPT

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February 23, 2023

Project Texas: The Details of TikTok’s Plan to Remain Operational in the United States

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January 26, 2023

The State of State Platform Regulation

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December 8, 2022

Content Moderation Sacrificed in Left-Right Deals on Tech Reform

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December 7, 2022

Europe’s New Tech Regulations Leave Open a Big Question: How Will They Work?

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December 6, 2022

Four Ways to Fix Social Media’s Political Ads Problem — Without Banning Them

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November 8, 2022

U.S. Regulation Governing Digital Political Ads Is Broken

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November 8, 2022

The End of Roe Will Spark a Digital Civil War

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September 14, 2022

Programmed Political Speech: How Programmatic Political Advertising Policies Shape Online Speech

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September 9, 2022

A Road Map for Tech Policy Experimentation

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August 12, 2022

After Dobbs, Democrats and Republicans Switch Places on Speech Policy

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July 28, 2022

What We Talk About When We Talk About Deplatforming Trump

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June 15, 2022

No Magic Bullet: The Difficulties of Reforming Big Tech

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May 23, 2022

The Coming Online Fight Over Abortion Will Be Brutal

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May 12, 2022

Understanding, Enforcement, and Investment: Options and Opportunities for State Regulation of Online Content

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April 21, 2022

The TikTok-Oracle Deal Would Set 2 Dangerous Precedents

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March 18, 2022

Learning From China’s Techlash

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November 16, 2021

Frances Haugen’s Leaking of the Facebook Papers Will Hurt Decision-Making at Tech Companies

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November 11, 2021

Congress Must Act To Establish Sensible Rules on Electoral Speech

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October 12, 2021

FEC Rulemaking Petition: Subvendor Reporting

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August 5, 2021

The Only People That Got Hurt Were The Small Guys: Assessing winners and losers from the 2020 platform political ad bans

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July 21, 2021

FEC Rulemaking Petition: Petition for Rulemaking to Revise and Amend Regulations Relating to Subvendor Reporting Transparency

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June 29, 2021

To Fight Online Misinformation, Criminalize Voter Suppression

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June 11, 2021

The U.S. Needs a New Licensing Policy for Chinese Companies

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June 11, 2021

Well-Intentioned Section 230 Reform Could Entrench the Power of Big Tech

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June 1, 2021

Section 230 Reform: A Typology of Platform Power

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May 5, 2021

All the Ways Congress Wants to Change Section 230

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March 23, 2021

How to increase transparency for political ads on social media

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March 19, 2021

The Political Advertising Black Box Must Be Destroyed

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March 8, 2021

Breaking Blackout Black Boxes: Roadblocks to Analyzing Platform Political Ad Bans

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March 2, 2021

A Sharper, Shrewder U.S. Policy for Chinese Tech Firms

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February 19, 2021

Big Tech and Antitrust: A Path Forward

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December 16, 2020

Five Ways to Address Online Speech Problems Without Gutting the Law That Created Today’s Internet

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October 27, 2020

Section 230: A Reform Agenda for the Next Administration

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October 25, 2020

Governments Shouldn’t Choose the News in Your Feed

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September 13, 2020

Facebook’s Pre–Election Day Ban on Political Ads Will Likely Suppress Important Speech

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September 4, 2020

Should Facebook Pick a Side?

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July 16, 2020

How TikTok’s Departure From Hong Kong Could Become a Win for China

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July 15, 2020

The Apple-Google Contact Tracing System Won’t Work. It Still Deserves Praise.

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May 22, 2020

How to unlock telemedicine on such a large scale

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March 23, 2020

Internet Freedom 10 Years In

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January 21, 2020

Doing Business in China: What the NBA Can Learn from Big Tech

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October 15, 2019

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