The EU doesn’t have a sense of its disinformation problem

The EU doesn’t have a sense of its disinformation problem. This report suggests the policy changes it can make (Nieman Lab)

"Contract for the Web"

Web Inventor Has an Ambitious Plan to Take Back the Net (Time) Contract for the Web

A.I. in your head

Connecting Brains to Computers Is a Shortcut to Dystopia (Evan Selinger and Susan Schneider, Medium - OneZero)

Social Media and Populism

Right-Wing Populism, Social Media and Echo Chambers in Western Democracies (Shelley Boulianne, Karolina Koc-Michalska and Bruce Bimber)

Artificial intelligence won’t kill journalism

Artificial intelligence won’t kill journalism or save it, but the sooner newsrooms buy in, the better (Hanaa' Tameez, NiemanLab)

Killing Net Neutrality

Killing Net Neutrality Was Even Worse Than You Think (Karl Bode, Medium)

Tracking the world’s most dangerous hackers

Inside the Microsoft team tracking the world’s most dangerous hackers (Patrick Howell O'Neill, MIT TR)

UmaSóGlobo 'Media Tech'

Reformulada, Globo avança na direção de se tornar ‘media tech’ (Valor)

Sowden: "The problem isn't data protection, the problem is data collection"

GDPR is missing the point, says Edward Snowden (ZDNet)

US 2020: another Facebook disinformation election

Facebook’s measures have largely failed to reduce the spread of viral disinformation on the platform (AVAAZ)

It is still incredibly easy to share (and see) known fake news about politics on Facebook (NiemanLab)

“The Facebook environment…muddies the waters between fact and fiction” (NiemanLab)

Facebook Isn’t Just Allowing Lies, It’s Prioritizing Them

The more outrageous the lie, the better it is for Facebook’s bottom line (Ellen P. Goodman and Karen Kornbluh, LA Times)

Facebook Isn’t Just Allowing Lies, It’s Prioritizing Them (Tim Wu, NYT)

Hillary Clinton: Zuckerberg should pay price for damage to democracy (The Guardian)

The Guardian view on political advertising: time to regulate it, Mr Zuckerberg (Editorial, The Guardian)

Don’t abolish political ads on social media. Stop microtargeting (Ellen L. Weintraub, WP)

Elizabeth Warren’s New Facebook Ad Brutally Owns Mark Zuckerberg (Rolling Stone)

The UK’s election will put Facebook’s political ad policies to the test (MIT TR)

Mark Zuckerberg has defended Facebook’s decision to let politicians lie in ads (MIT TR)

Russia's Great Firewall

Russia Is About to Disconnect From the Internet: What That Means (Adam Smith, PCMag)