💡 A new KGI expert report lays out a framework to facilitate access to high-influence public platform data—“the narrow slice of public platform data that has the greatest impact on civic life due to its reach, source, or role in shaping what people see online.” kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and...

📣 Online platforms shape what we know, how we connect, and who gets heard, yet researcher access to public platform data is shrinking, while platforms monetize this data. Our new report "Better Access" offers a framework for accessing this critical data: kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and...

Meta's fraud problem: The social media giant projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by @Reuters show reut.rs/4qJTpdH

💡 A new KGI expert report lays out a framework to facilitate access to high-influence public platform data—“the narrow slice of public platform data that has the greatest impact on civic life due to its reach, source, or role in shaping what people see online.” kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and...

Rob Leathern and Rob Goldman, who both worked at Meta, are launching a new nonprofit that aims to bring transparency to an increasingly opaque, scam-filled social media ecosystem. www.wired.com/story/scam-a...

Anthony Hopkins recitant un fragment del poema The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock de T.S.Eliot, al programa del Stephen Colbert 😍

Many Americans say they often come across inaccurate news – and have a hard time knowing what’s true

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

American students are falling behind, and the most common explanations overlook the main problem, Idrees Kahloon argues.

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New copyright scenario: lawyers threaten researchers over cryptographic solution found in Smithsonian archive

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Lunch today: Taqueria El Califa de León, CDMX

Even without jobs data, Google Search Results for "Unemployment Benefits" being at a post-Covid high is probably —and I hate to use such labor econ/technical jargon here, but it's probably— "not good." #EconSky

Are you a lawyer? Do you enjoy working on small teams tackling big things? We’re hiring a senior counsel. jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding.

For this week's podcast, I spoke to John Wihbey, an associate professor at Northeastern University and the author of a new book titled Governing Babel: The Debate Over Social Media Platforms and Free Speech—And What Comes Next. Listen here:

An absurdly simple trick for choosing between “who” and “whom.”

"This new ratchet enhances the Signal Protocol’s resilience against future quantum computing threats while maintaining our existing security guarantees of forward secrecy and post-compromise security." Fascinating @meredithmeredith.bsky.social!

This was such a great convo and thrilled to be part of a whole series on scams and schemes. Thanks @alixdunn.com !

Bravo 👏 to @jay.bsky.team, @pfrazee.com and the other folks behind @bsky.app! They just released the Bluesky software SDKs and reference implementations under open source licenses and are also making a patent non-aggression pledge. bsky.social/about/blog/1...

online style accounts that try to look rich vs actual rich people

Can we install updated versions of this on all of Philly’s surface parking lots?

Tune in as I live tweet @stanfordcyber.bsky.social’s Trust and Safety Research Conference!! #TSRConf

I loved talking to Signal's @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, who is such a consistent, clear voice of sanity (and always a great interview). We talked about (of course) SignalGate, what AI means for Signal, why tech bros continue to be such a disappointment, and much more. Read, listen, etc!

Appreciate these insights from @emollick.bsky.social. But the "wizard problem" isn't that AI is too opaque. It's that we're designing systems that hide their processes. We could build AI that shows its work, explains, and lets us intervene. Instead we're choosing black boxes and calling it magic.

The internet's in a bad place. We're not winning. How can we turn things around? We need money. What parts of the internet 1) are still under democratic control and 2) are in a position to produce significant revenue? It's mostly down to Wikipedia. But there's more… 🧵

In a kinder, gentler time, Marilyn Hagerty’s very earnest review of the Olive Garden was an internet sensation. The internet used to bring us joy. RIP to one of the greats: www.grandforksherald.com/news/marilyi...

The city of Philadelphia spends only $104 per resident annually on parks and recreation, a paltry amount when compared to other major cities: New York: $226; Chicago: $262; Seattle: $412?! We must invest more in them before it's too late, writes Kyle Bagenstose for @phillymag.com.

Grateful to @rstreet.bsky.social for the chance to share my perspective on how we can “fireproof” the foundations of a free society. These are challenging times, but I believe resilience is built when we stay true to the liberal principles that underlie those foundations. Link in the replies👇

facts and skyscrapers glint in the tide

Curious whether any publishers have updates on data points like this…

After 2 years in press, it's published! "Talkin' 'Bout AI Generation: Copyright and the Generative-AI Supply Chain," is out in the 72nd volume of the Journal of the Copyright Society copyrightsociety.org/journal-entr... written with @katherinelee.bsky.social & @jtlg.bsky.social (2023)

I found this explanation of the Bartz v Anthropic settlement quite useful. www.authorsalliance.org/2025/09/07/t...

"The report is part of a trove of documents from inside Meta that was recently disclosed to Congress by two current and two former employees who allege that Meta suppressed research that might have illuminated potential safety risks to children and teens on the company’s [VR] devices and apps..."

The vaccine panel in Diego Rivera’s spectacular mural at the Detroit Institute of Arts

More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July, according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center. That includes people who are in the country illegally as well as legal residents. https://to.pbs.org/46d1uiJ

Some light reading for Labor Day (Cc @lageneralista.ca)

New work by @brendannyhan.bsky.social & @jasonreifler.bsky.social shows further evidence of positive impact of prebunking This is why EIP wrote What to Expect rumor guides for certain periods in elections! And it’s why election deniers reframe this as “brainwashing” www.science.org/content/arti...

Architectural historians, assemble…

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

“Ms. Wadsworth, a former publisher of USA Today, has urged foundations to act with urgency — to ‘move philanthropy at the speed of news’.”

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

new: inside the $100 million race to rescue PBS and NPR stations (🎁🔗) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...

Excellent long read by Adam Sitze! “A democracy that can’t look ahead can’t survive, & the university is the watchtower where democracy goes to scan the horizon. It offers depth & perspective where electoral politics demands immediacy, continuity where democratic contestation brings frequent change”

“Ms. Wadsworth, a former publisher of USA Today, has urged foundations to act with urgency — to ‘move philanthropy at the speed of news’.”