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This and similar contests contain hard lessons about the bug density of critical US software and the effectiveness of the PRC's effort to create a homegrown public-private offensive capability. These

Facebook's recent decisions raise a really interesting question: what is QAnon?Is it an organization? A movement? A religion? Facebook is treating it as a "dangerous organization", a category that includes

If you are crowing about FB possibly shutting down in the EU while criticizing Trump on TikTok, you aren’t really paying attention.Both the WH and ECJ are myopically inventing rules

“We would have made significant changes to ensure the service met the highest standards for security, privacy, online safety, and combating disinformation" is an attempt to poison the well against

I often lament that we lacked a "9/11 Commission" for 2016, as it would have likely found that poor collaboration across gov/tech/civ society/media was a root cause.This report is based

A core problem at Facebook is that one policy org is responsible for both the rules of the platform and keeping governments happy.https://twitter.com/dseetharaman/status/1265312209602674688 It is very hard to make product

The media needs to stop amplifying extraordinary claims ("Of the top 50 influential retweeters, 82% are bots") without extraordinary (or in this case any) evidence. There was some value to

Yesterday's release of an end-to-end design for Zoom has spawned a long thread about doing E2E in a web browser. While I respect all the participants, I think several of

This is repugnant and disqualifying for any office in a pluralistic nation like ours.I have spent much of my career taking actions in opposition to the People's Republic, but my

This is the natural endpoint of an online privacy debate that has always been more about culture war and competition policy than actual, empirical evidence of harm. The moment there

This is a good thread. I think I agree with all of it. Two other things that drive anti-media feelings in SV:1) Overly simplistic (and often multiple) positions on complicated

I'm glad to see this well-researched piece covering *paid* and organic Chinese state media propaganda on social media by @bobmcmillan and @BetsyMorris2. They cite excellent work by my SIO colleague