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  Pennsylvania is a Swing-State Case Study for Data Center Politics

  Oct 4, 202652 min

  Pennsylvania offers a particular case study in which to consider the political battle over data centers that is playing out across the United States and beyond. A new report from Data & Society, "The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania," draws on a year and a half of fieldwork across the state. It examines how boosters sell data centers by invoking Pennsylvania's industrial past, and why so many communities aren't buying the promises made by industry and politicians. Justin Hendrix spoke with Data & Society’s Maia Woluchem and Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes and People’s Tech Project’s Hannah Sassaman about its findings.

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  Why Social Media Platforms Should Adopt a 'Militant Democracy' Framework

  Oct 4, 202635 min

  What should social media platforms do when the state itself becomes a threat to democracy? In a new paper published in the journal Information, Communication & Society, Daniel Kreiss and Lorcan Neill , both at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media and the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, borrow from "militant democracy," a framework scholars developed in the 1930s as fascists exploited democratic freedoms to seize power. They offer a framework for wedding platform policies to democratic principles. With midterm elections just weeks away in the United States and elections playing out in Brazil and beyond, Justin Hendrix caught up with them about what the framework suggests, and what trust and safety executives can do even in a context where the interests of platform owners are fused with those of autocratic leaders.

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  Gil Durán Maps the Rise of the 'Nerd Reich'

  Sep 27, 20261h 6m

  On September 23, Tech Policy Press hosted an event at Betaworks in New York City with Gil Durán , the author of The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy , the New York Times bestselling book published by Simon & Schuster. Alice Marwick , research director at Data & Society, joined the discussion with Justin Hendrix .

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  The 'Jenga Politics' Threatening the US Census

  Sep 27, 202652 min

  In the United States, the census touches tech policy at more points than you might realize. It's a massive data collection operation and a piece of democratic infrastructure all at once. danah boyd is the author of Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census , a new book from the University of Chicago Press that tells the story of the people who make the census, recounting how the 2020 census came together amid fractured politics and a raging pandemic. It’s a complicated story, and it has implications for the next census, which is already in planning, and is already a source of controversy and concern.

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  Matthias J. Becker on the Launch of Digital Hate Review

  Sep 20, 202645 min

  The study of how hate is expressed in digital media and its relationship to offline harassment and violence is a growing field that touches public policy, content moderation and platform policy, AI governance, and a variety of other topics at the intersection of technology and public discourse. This week, a new journal called the Digital Hate Review launched to give a new home to research and discourse on these issues. To learn more, Justin Hendrix spoke to its editor-in-chief, Matthias J. Becker , who has spent 15 years tracking how hate speech evolves online.

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