Ah thank you for reminding me of this tweet that brought me such satisfaction.

Our first investigation is out! We partnered with Rest of World to study how the BJP used WhatsApp for political campaigning in a small town in India. Summary of our analysis and findings :  
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Should we be investing 'billions of dollars, our precious electricity that could be used toward moving away from fossil fuels, and a generation of the brightest math & science minds on incremental improvements in mediocre email writing?' #AI Julia Angwin nytimes.com/2024/05/15/opi…

'It feels like another sign that A.I. is not even close to living up to its hype. In my eyes, it’s looking less like an all-powerful being and more like a bad intern whose work is so unreliable that it’s often easier to do the task yourself.' must read from the Julia Angwin

For more than a year, we have been asking what will be the consequences if AI gets too powerful.

But it’s time to start asking about the consequences if AI stays as dumb as it currently is. My latest for NYT Opinion (gift link):

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Me too! I am lucky to have read it early and I heartily endorse it.

Thank you for this pioneering lawsuit Ethan Zuckerman! Our relationship with social media would be so much better if we could break the platforms' stranglehold on the algorithms.

My piece on the need for algorithmic choice:
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Thrilled to see the EU commission explicitly supporting the importance of journalist access to platform data in its inquiry into Meta.

H/t Brandon Silverman

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Why AI watermarking won’t save us and why you might need a “safe word” with your loved ones to help them know if they are talking to you or an AI voice clone. An interview with AI policy expert Irene Solaiman in this week’s Proof News newsletter.

Great to see our session Can Journalism Survive AI with Julia Angwin Meredith Broussard & Dhruv Mehrotra featured in Reuters Institute’s of list International Journalism Festival 2024 events you shouldn’t miss in Perugia #ijf24 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/internati…

One reason I named my journalism studio Proof is that the burden of proof is always higher for people who are challenging power.

Proof aims to do that work.

the future of GAI chatbots is disclaimers

“Federal privacy law could be monumental if it gets the substance right, but it could also be disastrous if it preempts the states with a weak or unworkable standard.”

The current bill is the latter, says Justin Brookman.

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I'm lucky that early reviews of DARK WIRE, my book on how FBI secretly ran its own encrypted chat app to wiretap the world, are in

Julia Angwin said 'A jaw-dropping page turner that truly terrified me'

Preorder for behind-the-scenes content. More below hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-…

Feeling very vindicated about using fake names to reserve tables for more than a decade.

Did you know about this beautiful NYC bookstore run by France? I just found out when agreeing to speak there about AI on Monday. Come join! villa-albertine.org/events/can-jou…

The latest from Proof News: Aaron W. Gordon’s tale of how Claude AI suggested bribery, blackmail and climate denial.

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Thank you for hosting me UW Journalism Ethics! Gives me hope for journalism to meet all your committed students, faculty and supporters.

Thrilled to be part of this illustrious lineup including keynote by the most important tech regulator you've never heard of: Samuel Levine.

What are the stakes in this fight?

'[I fear the] places where people participate in a public spirit will wither away and good information will be behind paywalls. Then the rest of the world will just be living in this traffic farm,' says Julia Angwin in the piece