🖥️ 📈 The SMM market thrives on secrecy. Some tools have privileged access, most scrape, few disclose. We need standards that put the public interest first. Read the report by @cmilez.bsky.social, @brandonsilverman.bsky.social, and @annalenhart.bsky.social at iddp.gwu.edu/dashboard-data-acquisition

"Because the wolfhound century is on us now, and we have to choose how to face it."

I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.

New report out from IDDP on using pervasive data ethically in research — I was grateful for the opportunity to contribute. Congrats to @annalenhart.bsky.social!

🚨 Workshop update 🚨 We're excited to announce that @naomishiffman.bsky.social will be joining to share her experience with designing and passing implementable tech policy. Our half-day agenda is up (ci-x-tp.github.io) and early registration for @acmci.bsky.social ends on 23 June — don’t miss out!

A really excellent, clear guide with concrete scenarios and potential alternatives to AI.

This new report from @brandonsilverman.bsky.social and @naomishiffman.bsky.social is great. It documents numerous concrete cases in which platform transparency (or scraping-based research) has had significant real-world impact. iddp.gwu.edu/sites/g/file...

"Platform transparency has had significant positive impact for public awareness and civic engagement, academic understanding [of] platforms, government and regulatory action [and for] platforms themselves" @naomishiffman.bsky.social & @brandonsilverman.bsky.social write iddp.gwu.edu/case-transpa...

New report out from @brandonsilverman.bsky.social and myself making the case for platform transparency and the ways it leads to real-world change— not only in the public sphere, but also for the platforms themselves. Check it out!

This level of transparency about content moderation decisions, and specifically about the recall vs precision tradeoff, should be a model for other platforms.

@jacobsilver.bsky.social is here, everyone say hi!

Excited to share a paper led by @lageneralista.bsky.social and @samlai.bsky.social that I was lucky enough to co-author! https://carnegieendowment.org/2023/05/18/operational-reporting-by-online-services-proposed-framework-pub-89776