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Learn more about how CIGI tackles the governance challenges and opportunities of data and transformative technologies, including AI, and their impact on the economy, security, democracy and, ultimately, societies. ⬇
In the battle against false online discourse, the focus has been on ads, bots and Russians.
But focusing on these areas does nothing to alter the fundamental business model of social media, which creates echo chambers by design: @MollyMcKew
If implemented, the #WRCCMR report "A Call to Action" will change the way we respond to refugees, says Co-Chair of the World Refugee Council @jmkikwete.
Learn more at worldrefugeecouncil.org
Join us in welcoming new CIGI Fellow Nanjala Nyabola (@Nanjala1).
She is a writer and researcher based in Kenya, and her work focuses on the intersection between tech, media and society. Read her earlier piece on platform governance of political speech:
cigionline.org/publications/m…
“The most important takeaway from #G7Biarritz is that US leadership has totally disappeared,” says CIGI’s @TomBernes. “Other leaders, Macron in particular, are learning how to fill the gap.”
Day 2 in Berlin, the World Refugee Council discusses the role of media in changing the toxic narrative around #refugees. How does media storytelling affect the perception of refugees and migrants? #WRCCMR
"A lie told a million times becomes a fact; that’s the reality of social media, and that’s what authoritarian-style rulers around the world are taking advantage of." —
@mariaressa
If Web 2.0 was predicated on selling our data, #Web3 will have us sell ourselves as it doubles down on extractivism.
Without a critical perspective, familiar harms will not only be replicated; they will be exacerbated, writes @hackylawyER in a new piece: