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Justin Hendrix

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Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
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Several concerns must be addressed to make the Validation and Evaluation for Trustworthy (VET) AI Act effective, writes Brandie Nonnecke, Director of the CITRIS Policy Lab and professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) proposed the legislation.
Mandated Third-Party AI Audits are Coming—Addressing AI’s Socio-Technical Challenges Will Be Key | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press Several concerns must be addressed to make the Validation and Evaluation for Trustworthy AI Act effective, writes Brandie Nonnecke.
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Studying how misinformation spread following the 2018 Bolsonaro stabbing reveals patterns and trends that may help following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, write Roberta Braga and Cristina Tardáguila, researchers at the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA).
Brazil Case Offers Insight on Predictable Misinformation Post-Trump Shooting | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press Studying how misinformation spread following the 2018 Bolsonaro stabbing reveals patterns and trends, write Roberta Braga and Cristina Tardáguila.
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@davekarpf.bsky.social on a16z's "Little Tech" BS: "[Investors aren't] clever enough to invest in companies that turn a profit by bringing useful products to market anymore. They need special treatment from the government for their bad investments to pay off." www.techpolicy.press/the-little-t...
The “Little Tech Agenda” is Just Self-Serving Nonsense | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press The “Little Tech Agenda” has nothing to do with innovation or technology. It’s just a VC wish list, writes Dave Karpf.
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If you work at X and don't wish to move to Texas now is as good a time as any to blow the whistle on what you think the public needs to know.
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Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz to every woman, LGBTQ+ person and immigrant who works in tech: you’re disposable if doing this makes us even more money
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In Private Speech, JD Vance Said the “Devil Is Real” & Praised Alex Jones as Truth-Teller Vance gave the speech to the secretive Teneo Network. The VP nominee has been a member of the Leonard Leo-backed group, which seeks to cultivate conservative influence in business & culture. Full video here:
In Private Speech, J.D. Vance Said the “Devil Is Real” and Praised Alex Jones as a Truth-Tellerwww.propublica.org Vance gave the speech to the secretive Teneo Network. The GOP vice presidential nominee has been a member of the Leonard Leo-backed group, which seeks to cultivate conservative influence in business a...
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Studying how misinformation spread following the 2018 Bolsonaro stabbing reveals patterns that may help following the assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump, write Roberta Braga and Cristina Tardáguila, researchers at the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA).
Brazil Case Offers Insight on Predictable Misinformation Post-Trump Shooting | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press Studying how misinformation spread following the 2018 Bolsonaro stabbing reveals patterns and trends, write Roberta Braga and Cristina Tardáguila.
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Independent researchers from targeted countries should collaborate to probe who exactly was responsible for the US military’s COVID-19 vaccine disinformation campaign and whether platforms did enough to protect their countries, writes Jonathan Corpus Ong: www.techpolicy.press/targeted-cou...
Targeted Countries Should Demand Accountability from the Pentagon and Platforms for COVID Disinformation | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press Independent researchers from targeted countries should collaborate to demand answers and accountability, writes Jonathan Corpus Ong.
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Elon Musk Allies Help Start Pro-Trump Super PAC... "The group, America PAC, is funded by several wealthy tech entrepreneurs in Mr. Musk’s social circle and is said to be likely to draw financial support from the SpaceX and Tesla founder himself." www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/u...
Elon Musk Allies Help Start Pro-Trump Super PACwww.nytimes.com The group, America PAC, is funded by several wealthy tech entrepreneurs in Mr. Musk’s social circle and is said to be likely to draw financial support from the SpaceX and Tesla founder himself.
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This confluence between the angry tech elites and Trumpian populism is something to watch.
That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.
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That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.
Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.
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The Republican Party has nominated a man for Vice President who says he would have ended American democracy if he’d had that role in 2021. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-...
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Independent researchers from targeted countries should collaborate to probe who exactly was responsible for the US military’s COVID-19 vaccine disinformation campaign and whether platforms did enough to protect their countries, writes Jonathan Corpus Ong: www.techpolicy.press/targeted-cou...
Targeted Countries Should Demand Accountability from the Pentagon and Platforms for COVID Disinformation | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press Independent researchers from targeted countries should collaborate to demand answers and accountability, writes Jonathan Corpus Ong.
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I have never read anything more credulous than Axios’s thing about Trump this morning. Like…
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Parsons Design & Technology professor David Carroll and AWO legal director Ravi Naik discuss questions surrounding data rights in the age of AI, including the legacy of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and a new challenge brought against OpenAI under the GDPR. www.techpolicy.press/data-rights-...
Data Rights in the Age of AI | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press A conversation between Parsons professor David Carroll and AWO legal director Ravi Naik.
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First 24 hours are ideal conditions for bad media: * Interest in the facts is off the charts, but there is only a handful of them * Bad actors fill the unmet demand * Civiltarians try to silence political discussion * Both sides bromides roar to life * Memory itself is now said to be in bad taste
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My colleagues & I have studied the social media aftermath of mass shooting events for a decade. We’re still processing the horrifying, abhorrent, and tragic event yesterday, which appears to be an assassination attempt on former President Trump. In case they're useful, here are some first thoughts:
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Reminder that 2024 is effectively the first post-social media election. People used to get their news from the tv and newspaper. Then we had a decade of news-via-google. Then a decade of news-via-big-social-feeds. Now that’s been fractured and nothing has replaced it.
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Following an apparent assassination attempt during a Trump campaign rally in Pennsylvania at which former President Donald Trump was injured and a spectator and the shooter were killed, billionaire Elon Musk offered his full endorsement of former Trump on X, the social media platform Musk owns.
Elon Musk Endorses Donald Trump Following Shooting at Campaign Rally | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press "I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery," Musk wrote in a post on X.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement recovered AR-style rifle at scene of Trump rally shooting, AP source says.