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“ It's a tough balancing act for platforms. They do not want to call the shots in foreign policy disputes.”
“ They want the ability to move to not one big global network but different networks where you can surveil your citizens more easily. In the longer term, Russia wants to be able to cut off access to Signal.”
“ As policymakers and platforms consider fact checks and warning labels as a strategy for fighting misinformation, it is imperative that we have more research to understand the impact of labels and label design on user engagement.”
“ Things are largely done on consensus at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), so [Doreen Bogdan-Martin] knows how to bring around that consensus. But make no mistake, control of the internet is a critical question.”
“ I'm trying desperately to be optimistic. This has been a learning year. We didn't need another learning year – but I do think a lot of people learned a lot about how this all works and how entrenched it is and how dangerous it is. ”
“ The tech sector is so innovative and creative and allows people to do so many things we never could have imagined before. We can't lose our sense of wonder about it all, and because there are these new opportunities, I do think the industry is going to try to put a lot of these problems behind it before we move into this new era. ”
“ The Facebook Papers showed that the platform can function almost like a turn-key system for extremist recruiters and the metaverse would make it even easier to perpetrate that violence.”
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December 1, 2021
On Wednesday, December 1, 2021 Karen Kornbluh testified before the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology of the U.S. House of Representatives...