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Weekly Roundup 6 July, 2022

By Cat Ramsey |

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The National Communications Commission of Taiwan officially announces a draft of the Digital Intermediary Service Act
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Image credit: Yang Chin-chieh, Taipei Times

The Taiwan National Communications Commission has approved the …

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Weekly Roundup 21 June through 30 June

By Cat Ramsey |

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cut-outs of Mark Zuckerberg are lined up in front of the US Capitol building on sunny day like a creepy army. Each of the cutouts has the words "fix facebook" on their t-shirts.
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Image credit: Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post 2018

21 June

The European Union (EU) has announced an …

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Weekly Roundup 13 June, 2022

By Cat Ramsey |

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Image credit: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

Hackers linked to the Chinese Communist Party are exploiting a …

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Weekly Roundup 31 May through 8 June

By Cat Ramsey |

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Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei sits on a stage with two Iranian flags in the background, speaking into a microphone and holding up a small piece of paper in his left hand, which has a large amber coloured ring on the middle finger
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Image credit: BBC's "Instagram moderators say Iran offered them bribes to remove accounts"

Persian language content moderators for Instagram have come forward alleging that …

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Weekly Roundup 24 May, 2022

By Cat Ramsey |

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The image centers on a hand with magenta fingernails holding a phone angled toward the person holding it (out of the picture). The person connected to the hands appears to be sitting in front of a wooden desk with an open laptop on it
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The UN Security Council (UNSC) convened a …

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Weekly Roundup 16 May, 2022

By Cat Ramsey |

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To address a spike in online child sexual abuse material(CSAM) during the pandemic, the European Commission has published a …

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Weekly Roundup 28 April through 6 May

By Cat Ramsey |

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Elon Musk stands with both his thumbs up in front of a yellow background with purple arrows pointing up
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28 April

Since the news broke that Twitter is accepting Elon Musk’s bid to purchase the platform,…

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Weekly Roundup 14 April through 21 April

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Image credit: Getty Images, Cyberscoop's "Zero-day exploits found and disclosed hit a record high in 2021, Google Project Zero says" article.

14 April
Meta has reported the takedown of a network of active Brazilian military personnel using the…

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Weekly Roundup 24 March through 7 April

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A picture of the Sama office in Nairobi. The office is to the left, a big building with a lot of windows, while the office's sign in centered and to the right is a street. It's a sunny day.
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Former content moderators are reigniting the debate over effective content moderation by suing big tech platforms for poor working conditions and psychological trauma. …

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DemTech 1000 Course Puts Technology at the Forefront of Democratic Development for NDI Staff

By Jesper Frant |

NDI has been a leader in democracy and technology, but to meet the challenges of our time, it is increasingly clear that the Institute needs to integrate technology into every program we undertake. In an article for the Journal of Democracy…

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