Renée DiResta, a researcher and author of Invisible Rulers, writes about online disinformation, foreign influence operations, and the politics of content moderation. Issues combine first-hand accounts, document-based rebuttals of claims about the 'censorship industrial complex', and hands-on experiments such as building an AI notewriter for Community Notes.
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Mark Scott's Digital Politics covers the intersection of technology, platforms, and politics, including social media harms, AI market concentration, disinformation, and political advertising. Readers get a weekly-style briefing with his commentary on EU and US tech policy and original data tools such as a Facebook political ad dashboard.
Kris Shaffer, a data scientist with a PhD and former academic, writes about data science, AI and related practice, including explainers on AI hallucination and workflows for building bilingual reading books with AI. Readers get clear technical explanations and practical, first-hand examples from his consulting and teaching work.
The Citizens Dispatch is a weekly newsletter from The Citizens covering the harms of Big Tech, its relationship with the state, and Russian interference in UK politics. Readers get explainers on policy questions, curated reads and watches, and calls to action such as platform boycotts and campaigns.
A reader-funded investigative newsletter by Heidi Siegmund Cuda that exposes disinformation campaigns, foreign influence operations and billionaire-linked corruption, with recent issues on Russian interference in France. It also promotes paid memberships, community events and ebooks.
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