On Wednesday morning, the amazing and brilliant lawyers at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University (K1A) – primarily Ramya Krishnan and Alex Abdo… Read More »Zuckerman vs. Meta Platforms

I’m at an event today at UMass Amherst put together by colleagues to launch the new initiative, GloTech, which focuses on perspectives on technology and… Read More »Twitter’s New Business Model: Russian Disinfo

I’m in Paris this week – spring break for UMass – visiting my second-favorite university, SciencesPo. I’ve taken on a new responsibility with SciencesPo, with… Read More »Pablo Boczkowski on the crisis in the “mental health capital of the world”

How big is YouTube? I got interested in this question a few years ago, when I started writing about the “denominator problem”. A great deal… Read More »How Big is YouTube?

I’m just back from a very quick trip to Rio de Janiero to take part in a conference put together by dear friend and colleague… Read More »Disinfo and Elections in the Global Majority

Kai-Cheng Yang is the creator of Botometer, which was – until 2023 – the state of the art for bot detection on Twitter. He’s a… Read More »Kai-Cheng Yang: The Social Bots are Coming…