🪲 the Lelapa AI InkubaLM paper is up on archive! Indulge your eyes. 🕺🏽 Shout out to the team for the incredible work arxiv.org/abs/2408.17024 🤗 InkubaLM huggingface.co/lelapa/InkubaL… 🤗 Inkuba-Instruct huggingface.co/datasets/lelap… 🤗 Inkuba-mono huggingface.co/datasets/lelap…

This is a bad case with observations that don't recognize how it works Wikipedia is non-profit, not a business. Asking for details of community of volunteers that make this invaluable source possible for defamation suit will open a can of worms. Bad precedent.

Internet archive dead, twitter barely functioning as a plartform to find and archive information, Facebook filled with slop and everything else largely being a glorified catalogue. Time to quit your compsci course and pivot to becoming a librarian

What does the appellate opinion in the publishers' lawsuit against our library mean for readers? For patrons like Prakash in India, it’s a devastating loss. What does the outcome of the publishers' lawsuit mean to you? Share your story ➡️ forms.gle/JgwWLxhvKgAZdV… #LetReadersRead

Ethan Zuckerman loves Facebook. That's why he and Knight First Amendment Institute are suing Meta. In a new blog, I talk about the colorful history of Section 230 and how user tools could keep people safer online, without the downsides that accompany other 230 proposals. cdt.org/insights/zucke…

Hats off to my amazing Access Now colleague Namrata Maheshwari for putting together a fantastic Encryption FAQ covering encrypted messaging, AI, content moderation, and more. Enjoy! accessnow.org/encryption-faq/

Scary and real impacts of Trump's racist and misleading remarks at the debate the other night. Too often I see dis/mis-info scholars focus on foreign adversaries when an immense threat is posed by candidates who have a bigger platform and weaponize it to vilify immigrants

The good people of Haitian Times planned a gathering in Springfield to support the Haitian community. It has now been cancelled because of ongoing threats. Despicable.

Seeing people wear Bismillah T-shirts in dc of all places after the Peter Cat show last night… cognitive dissonance

I may sound like a broken record. But I am never going to stop asking a product that markets itself as "intelligence" to be factual. The latest evidence of a dangerous lack-of-facts: voting access for folks with disabilities 👇🏻

When does her visa expire

🌐 We're live at #FOSO2024, exploring the intersection of #AI, #Elections, and #FreeSpeech! Hosted by Center for Democracy & Technology & Stand Together, we will discuss the future of political expression, election integrity, & the role of AI. Stay tuned for insights from leading experts!

democrats can talk about the threat of project 2025 all they want, but by sitting by and letting the heritage foundation get what they want with KOSA, they're giving a future trump admin every advantage like the power to censor abortion content techdirt.com/2024/09/16/her…

Super excited to speak at today's Disinfo Defense League presentation with the inspiring @UTJschool’s Jo(sephine) Lukito, Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas’s Jacobo Licona, & Bridget Todd 💁🏿. I'll speak on content moderation systems' English-lang bias. Tune in :) bit.ly/DDL100Days

Wrote about something that’s been bothering me. Haitians Matter Even If They Aren’t “Legal” or “Hard Workers” zeteo.com/p/haitians-mat…

The Bombay HC has struck down IT Rules that would have led to the creation of a fact check unit. This is a huge, important step made possible thanks to many people and majorly Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) PLEASE consider donating to their efforts at internetfreedom.in/donate/

Election experts can do a lot more to protect the right to vote and combat disinfo by condemning the racist attacks against Maya Berry, ED of the Arab American Institute than by strong-arming companies to monitor all of our speech online: nbcnews.com/politics/congr…

Translation services that use AI will always need a “real person in the middle,” says D&S Senior Researcher Ranjit Singh. “There is one part of it which is translation and another part of it which is just trying to understand somebody’s life situation.” apnews.com/article/google…