Are there any humans left on the internet?www.prospectmagazine.co.uk Clippy, the unhelpful animated paperclip, frustrated Microsoft users in the early 2000s. Now, Clippy is everywhere
Ethan Zuckerman
UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
The Cute Cat Theory Talk at ETech - Ethan Zuckermanethanzuckerman.com I’d forgotten just how much fun ETech is. Not only are the talks some of the most creative and innovative you can hear in the tech community, the room full of people is one of the most congenial, smar...
How to fix platforms? by What is it about computational communication science?podcasters.spotify.com Ethan Zuckerman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication and Information at the U of Massachusetts Amherst, is our guest, and he is on a mission to fix platforms. Not because he thinks the...
AI companies train language models on YouTube’s archive − making family-and-friends videos a privacy risktheconversation.com Many videos people upload to YouTube aren’t really meant for public consumption, but they’re available for AI companies to vacuum up. Many of these personal videos are posted by children.
The Rise of Institutional Mistrust: Prof. Ethan Zuckerman (Author of "Mistrust" and Associate Prof. @ University of Massachusetts at Amherst)(Ep. 119) — aimingforthemoon.comwww.aimingforthemoon.com
AI companies train language models on YouTube’s archive − making family-and-friends videos a privacy risktheconversation.com Many videos people upload to YouTube aren’t really meant for public consumption, but they’re available for AI companies to vacuum up. Many of these personal videos are posted by children.
101. Reframing Digital Safety with Diana Freed: For Survivors and Youth, The Biggest Threats Come From Everyday Tech - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherstpublicinfrastructure.org CW/TW: Intimate partner violence, child exploitation Diana Freed has spent the past several years radically reframing the threat model in cybersecurity with groundbreaking research into how domestic a...
A professor tries to turn the tables on Section 230’s web protections - Marketplacewww.marketplace.org The law protecting social media companies from liability over what users post also protects users, an internet scholar argues.
Speaking Freely: Ethan Zuckermanwww.eff.org Ethan Zuckerman is a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he teaches Public Policy, Communication and Information. He is starting a new research center called the Institute
A Zuck Takes on Metawww.lawfaremedia.org A professor seeks to turn Silicon Valley’s legal shield into a sword.
Opinion | I Love Facebook. That’s Why I’m Suing Meta.www.nytimes.com We must be able to create a more civic-minded internet, with tools that would empower users to better control what they see.
Zuckerman vs. Meta Platforms - Ethan Zuckermanethanzuckerman.com On Wednesday morning, the amazing and brilliant lawyers at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University (K1A) – primarily Ramya Krishnan and Alex Abdo – filed a lawsuit on my behalf: Zu...
A Lawsuit Argues Meta Is Required by Law to Let You Control Your Own Feedwww.wired.com A new lawsuit argues US law requires Meta to give users more control over their Facebook feeds. The outcome could reshape how the platform’s algorithm affects our lives.
A Lawsuit Argues Meta Is Required by Law to Let You Control Your Own Feedwww.wired.com A new lawsuit argues US law requires Meta to give users more control over their Facebook feeds. The outcome could reshape how the platform’s algorithm affects our lives.
A Lawsuit Argues Meta Is Required by Law to Let You Control Your Own Feedwww.wired.com A new lawsuit argues US law requires Meta to give users more control over their Facebook feeds. The outcome could reshape how the platform’s algorithm affects our lives.
Zuckerman v. Meta Platforms, Inc.knightcolumbia.org
Reddit’s I.P.O. Is a Content Moderation Success Storywww.nytimes.com The site’s journey from toxic cesspool to trusted news source illustrates the business value of keeping bad actors at bay.
Six or Seven Things Social Media Can Do For Democracy - Ethan Zuckermanethanzuckerman.com Social media doesn’t work the way we think it should. That’s the conclusion many people have come to in the wake of revelations about Cambridge Analytica’s mining of Facebook data to build political p...
Social Bots and the Frightening Unknowability of Social Media - Kettering Foundationwww.kettering.org The future is always a surprise, but we do not need to be surprised by the 2024 elections.