Digital Government
Study: YouTube, TikTok Track Users Most Among Social Media Platforms
Social media platforms may share more of your data than you think.
Cybersecurity
FTC Warns of 18-Fold Surge in Investment, ‘Romance’ Scams on Social Media
More than 95,000 Americans were bilked over social media in 2021 resulting in losses approaching $1 billion.
Emerging Tech
Team Links Social Media Use to Worse Physical Health
Increased social media use led to more doctor visits and higher levels of chronic inflammation.
Policy
Kazakhstan’s Internet Shutdown is the Latest Episode in an Ominous Trend: Digital Authoritarianism
Governments are increasingly using the internet as a means to an end.
Digital Government
Information Warfare is Moving Beyond Nation States
Mis- and disinformation ecosystems extend beyond the usual bad state actors.
Emerging Tech
Model Reveals How Misinformation Spreads Like a Virus
Misinformation moves in eerily similar ways.
Digital Government
Policy Makers Discuss Appropriate U.S. and U.K. Response to Online Disinformation
Former Texas Rep. Will Hurd weighed in.
Emerging Tech
Radicalization Pipelines: How Targeted Advertising on Social Media Drives People to Extremes
Advertising is getting more aggressive.
Ideas
The Metaverse Offers a Future Full of Potential—for Terrorists and Extremists, Too
Violent extremists could find the metaverse a useful recruiting and organizing tool – and a target-rich environment.
Emerging Tech
Privacy Advocates Connect Capitol Attack to Need for Data Protection Legislation
Sen. Ron Wyden joined citizen groups calling for limits on data collection as a way around an impasse over regulating free speech.
Modernization
Click ‘Like’, Get Punished Under Pentagon’s New Anti-Extremism Policy
First update since 2012 adds rules for social-media behavior.
Policy
Senate Hearing Tackles Harms Caused by Social Media Algorithms
Senators are pushing for more accountability from social media platforms over their algorithms.
Digital Government
$75K Prize Competition Announced to Help Fight Disinformation on the Internet
The Aspen Institute is willing to shell out for the best ideas to fight dis- and misinformation.
Digital Government
Army Recruiters on TikTok Dance Around Ban To Reach Gen Z
As threat worries subside, one sergeant has nearly half a million followers on the China-based app—and the Army wants her advice.
Emerging Tech
Information Disorder Is Biggest Social Danger, Commission Warns
The Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder made multiple structural recommendations for the information ecosystem.
Ideas
Are People Lying More Since the Rise of Social Media and Smartphones?
Some forms of technology seem to facilitate lying more than others.
Cybersecurity
Facebook Can Sue Israel’s NSO Group, Appeals Court Says
The case against the NSO Group appears to scratch the surface of problematic commercial hacking tools sold at arms markets, which the U.S. government has only just begun trying to control.
Digital Government
Dealing with negative information about your organization in the social media age
Steve Kelman spotlights recent research on when and how to respond to social disapproval.
Cybersecurity
Scammers Are Using Fake Job Ads to Steal People’s Identities
The U.S. Secret Service confirmed that it has seen a “marked increase” in sham job ads seeking to steal people’s personal data, often with the aim of filing bogus unemployment insurance claims.
Ideas
Can Facebook’s Smart Glasses Be Smart about Security and Privacy?
How can someone know if the wearer is looking at you or looking at personal information about you?
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