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Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. You can find us at https://techpolicy.press/, where you can join the newsletter.

Episode Date
What to Do If the AI Bubble Bursts
Apr 12, 2026
Project Maven and the Age of AI Warfare
Apr 09, 2026
X is a Preferred Tool for American Propaganda. What Does It Mean?
Apr 05, 2026
Olivier Sylvain Wants to Reclaim the Internet from Big Tech
Mar 29, 2026
How to Study the Phenomenon of Tech Hype
Mar 29, 2026
Considering How AI Destroys Democratic Institutions
Mar 22, 2026
Google Employees Push Back on Government Surveillance Contracts
Mar 15, 2026
How to Regulate Deepfake Financial Fraud
Mar 13, 2026
Cindy Cohn on How to Sustain the Fight Against Authoritarianism
Mar 08, 2026
In Age of Disruption, a Defense of Incrementalism
Mar 01, 2026
How to Think About the Anthropic-Pentagon Dispute
Feb 28, 2026
How to Get Paid to Polarize on TikTok
Feb 22, 2026
How to Become an Algorithmic Problem
Feb 22, 2026
The Digital Services Act is a Lightning Rod for Debate
Feb 15, 2026
What Carrie Goldberg Has Learned from Suing Big Tech
Feb 08, 2026
AI, Surveillance and the Siege of Minneapolis
Feb 05, 2026
How to Apply the 'Tyrant Test' to Technology
Feb 01, 2026
Documenting Terror on the Streets of Minneapolis
Jan 25, 2026
Unpacking the Rise of 'Smart Authoritarianism' in China
Jan 25, 2026
How Trump's AI Policy Promotes Ethnonationalism
Jan 18, 2026
New Book Challenges Assumptions on Digital Governance in China
Jan 18, 2026
What to Expect from US States on Child Online Safety in 2026
Jan 11, 2026
The Policy Implications of Grok's 'Mass Digital Undressing Spree'
Jan 04, 2026
Through to Thriving: Insights from the Field
Dec 21, 2025
A Critical Look at Trump's AI Executive Order
Dec 14, 2025
Unpacking the Politics of the EU's €120M Fine of Musk’s X
Dec 07, 2025
Exploring Belief and Belonging in a Fractured Online Age
Dec 04, 2025
Considering Trust and Safety's Past, Present, and Future
Nov 30, 2025
What Is Europe Trying to Achieve With Its Omnibus and Sovereignty Push?
Nov 23, 2025
Through to Thriving: Protecting Our Privacy with Chris Gilliard
Nov 15, 2025
The Past, Present, and Future of the US Information Integrity Field
Nov 15, 2025
What Are the Implications if the AI Boom Turns to Bust?
Nov 12, 2025
Why Independent Researchers Need Better Access to Platform Data
Nov 09, 2025
Through to Thriving: Connecting Art and Policy with Mimi Ọnụọha
Nov 02, 2025
Ryan Calo Wants to Change the Relationship Between Law and Technology
Oct 26, 2025
Evaluating Instagram's Promises to Protect Teens
Oct 19, 2025
The Open Internet is Dead. What Comes Next?
Oct 12, 2025
What We Can Learn from the First Digital Services Act Out-of-Court Dispute Settlements?
Oct 08, 2025
Governing Babel: John Wihbey on Platforms, Power, and the Future of Free Expression
Oct 05, 2025
Following DOGE, US States Pursue 'Efficiency' Initiatives
Sep 28, 2025
California Becomes Frontline in Battle Over AI Companions
Sep 26, 2025
Setting a 'Tech Agenda' for Climate Week
Sep 21, 2025
Assessing Tech Platform Responses Following the Assassination of Charlie Kirk
Sep 14, 2025
Across the US, Activists Are Organizing to Oppose Data Centers
Sep 14, 2025
Through to Thriving: Centering Young People with Vaishnavi J
Sep 07, 2025
Seeing Like a Platform
Aug 31, 2025
Inside the Lobbying Blitz Over Colorado's AI Law
Aug 29, 2025
New Insights on Tech and the Crisis of Democracy
Aug 24, 2025
Through to Thriving: Pursuing The Truth with Dr. Jasmine McNealy and Naomi Nix
Aug 17, 2025
Technology and Democracy in the New India
Aug 17, 2025
A Conversation with Jeff Horwitz on Meta's Flawed Rules for AI Chatbots
Aug 14, 2025
Daniel Solove on Privacy, Technology, and the Rule of Law
Aug 10, 2025
Through to Thriving: Advocating for Change with Nora Benavidez
Aug 03, 2025
Unpacking China's Global AI Governance Plan
Aug 02, 2025
Considering Trump’s AI Plan and the Future It Portends
Jul 24, 2025
Centering Disability Rights in US Tech Policy 35 Years After ADA
Jul 24, 2025
Through to Thriving: Finding Balance and Resilience in the Trust & Safety Field
Jul 20, 2025
How the EU's Voluntary AI Code is Testing Industry and Regulators Alike
Jul 13, 2025
How US States Are Shaping AI Policy Amid Federal Debate and Industry Pushback
Jul 13, 2025
Protecting Privacy and Dissent in an Age of Authoritarianism and AI
Jul 06, 2025
Considering the Human Rights Impacts of LLM Content Moderation
Jul 06, 2025
Interrogating Tech Power and Democratic Crisis
Jun 29, 2025
Through to Thriving: Honoring Our Elders with Dr. Timnit Gebru
Jun 22, 2025
AI Companions and the Law
Jun 15, 2025
Addressing Questions Over Europe's AI Act, Digital Sovereignty, and More
Jun 15, 2025
Through to Thriving: Journeying to Joy with Dr. Desmond Upton Patton
Jun 08, 2025
Technology, Labor Rights, and Political Power in Kenya and Across Africa
Jun 08, 2025
Canada's Post-Election Outlook on Tech Policy
Jun 06, 2025
Taking on the AI Con
Jun 01, 2025
Assessing the Relationship Between Information Ecosystems and Democracy's Woes
Jun 01, 2025
An Interview with California's New State Chief Technology Innovation Officer
May 29, 2025
Considering a New 'Civil Rights Approach to AI'
May 29, 2025
A 10-Year Moratorium on Enforcing State AI Laws?
May 25, 2025
Decolonizing the Future: Karen Hao on Resisting the Empire of AI
May 23, 2025
What the History of Internet Governance Tells Us About the Future of Tech Policy
May 18, 2025
Between Borders and Lies: Fact-Checkers on Navigating the India-Pakistan Conflict
May 13, 2025
Taking Stock of the Google Search Remedies Trial
May 11, 2025
xAI's Memphis Neighbors Push for Facts and Fairness
May 06, 2025
How Venture Capital Warps the World
May 04, 2025
Adam Becker Takes Aim at Silicon Valley Nonsense
Apr 27, 2025
Through to Thriving: Building Community with Ellen Pao
Apr 20, 2025
Researchers Defend the Scientific Consensus on Bias and Discrimination in AI
Apr 16, 2025
A Guide to the FTC's Case Against Meta
Apr 13, 2025
What We Don't Know About DSA Enforcement
Apr 08, 2025
DOGE and the United States of AI
Apr 06, 2025
Part 2: Technology, Democracy, and Power—Journalism’s Role in a Time of Crisis
Mar 30, 2025
Part 1: Technology, Democracy, and Power—Journalism’s Role in a Time of Crisis
Mar 30, 2025
About that Signal Chat
Mar 27, 2025
A Conversation with Alvaro Bedoya on Trump's FTC Firings
Mar 25, 2025
Is an Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence Possible?
Mar 23, 2025
A Conversation with Dr. Alondra Nelson on AI and Democracy
Mar 16, 2025
Should AGI Really Be the Goal of Artificial Intelligence Research?
Mar 09, 2025
Assessing Europe's Digital Markets Act One Year In
Mar 09, 2025
Promising Opportunities, Distinct Risks: AI and Digital Public Squares
Mar 06, 2025
Building Middleware for Bluesky: A Conversation with Blacksky Founder Rudy Fraser
Mar 03, 2025
Inocencia en Juego: An Investigation into Groups Targeting Children on Facebook
Mar 02, 2025
Watching the Watchers: The Future of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
Feb 28, 2025
Evaluating the First Systemic Risk and Audit Reports Under the Digital Services Act
Feb 23, 2025
Digital Rights Activists in Taiwan Driven by Memory and Threat of Authoritarianism
Feb 23, 2025
Paths Diverge at the Paris AI Summit
Feb 16, 2025
Online Lives, Space and Place: Exploring the Mobile City
Feb 09, 2025
A National Heist? Evaluating Elon Musk’s March Through Washington
Feb 09, 2025
The Dangerous Combination of Technology and Capitalism
Feb 02, 2025
DeepSeek Prompts a Rethink
Jan 28, 2025
Evaluating Trump's First Moves on Tech
Jan 26, 2025
What's New at RightsCon? And How to Free Our Feeds
Jan 19, 2025
The Dumbest Timeline: The Supreme Court Rules on TikTok
Jan 18, 2025
Addressing the "Cursed Equilibrium" of Social Media Algorithms
Jan 12, 2025
What to Watch on US State Tech Policy in 2025
Jan 05, 2025
Imagining 2025 and Beyond with Dr. Ruha Benjamin
Dec 22, 2024
How to Remedy Google's Search Monopoly
Dec 15, 2024
Petra Molnar on Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Dec 08, 2024
Towards Resilience: A Conversation with Kate Starbird About the Future of Online Elections Discourse
Dec 08, 2024
Evan Greer Asks the Tech Accountability Movement to Draw a Line
Dec 01, 2024
Robert Gorwa Tackles the Politics of Platform Regulation
Dec 01, 2024
Documenting the Assault on Disinformation and Hate Speech Research
Nov 24, 2024
The Race for AI Supremacy
Nov 17, 2024
Salvation, Abundance, Apocalypse: Is Technology the World's Most Powerful Religion?
Nov 10, 2024
What Kafka Can Teach Us About Privacy in the Age of AI
Nov 03, 2024
Are Platforms Prepared for the Post-Election Period?
Nov 02, 2024
What Role Might Elon Musk Play in the Post-Election Period?
Nov 02, 2024
Unpacking the Principles of the Digital Services Act with Martin Husovec
Oct 27, 2024
Three Perspectives on Generative AI and Elections
Oct 27, 2024
Governing the Fediverse: A Field Study
Oct 20, 2024
Secure Messaging Apps and Election Integrity
Oct 20, 2024
Mary Anne Franks Challenges First Amendment Orthodoxy
Oct 20, 2024
Election Meddling, Censorship, and More Bad News in 2024 Freedom on the Net Report
Oct 19, 2024
Independent Researchers and Journalists Mourn the Loss of CrowdTangle
Oct 18, 2024
From King James to Google: Barry Lynn on the Antitrust Revolution
Oct 13, 2024
The Evolution of Online Political Advertising: A Conversation with Who Targets Me's Sam Jeffers
Oct 11, 2024
Unpacking New Mexico's Complaint Against Snap Inc.
Oct 06, 2024
Assessing Systemic Risk Under the Digital Services Act
Oct 06, 2024
AI Snake Oil: Separating Hype from Reality
Sep 29, 2024
Assessing Platform Preparedness for the 2024 US Election
Sep 25, 2024
Resisting the Tech Coup: A Conversation with Marietje Schaake
Sep 22, 2024
Gary Marcus Wants to Tame Silicon Valley
Sep 22, 2024
Thierry Breton Resigns- What Does it Mean for European Tech Regulation?
Sep 21, 2024
Understanding Systemic Risks under the Digital Services Act
Sep 15, 2024
Free Speech vs. Sovereignty?
Sep 15, 2024
Google Online Advertising Antitrust Trial Kicks Off In a DC Court
Sep 09, 2024
Platforms and Elections: the Global State of Play
Sep 08, 2024
What's Going On In California?
Sep 08, 2024
Understanding the People Who Turn Lies Into Reality
Sep 01, 2024
Brazilian Judge Orders the Suspension of Elon Musk's X
Aug 30, 2024
A Conversation with Mark Surman, President of Mozilla
Aug 25, 2024
Design Codes and the Courts
Aug 18, 2024
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez on His Lawsuit Against Meta
Aug 11, 2024
Using AI to Engage People about Conspiracy Beliefs
Aug 04, 2024
Data Workers, In Their Own Words
Jul 28, 2024
The Future of Privacy in the Age of AI
Jul 21, 2024
Silicon Valley Leaders Cast Their Lot with Donald Trump
Jul 21, 2024
Data Rights in the Age of AI
Jul 14, 2024
What Comes After Murthy v Missouri
Jul 14, 2024
Considering the Ethics of AI Assistants
Jul 07, 2024
Big Tech and the News
Jun 30, 2024
Understanding the Digital Silk Road
Jun 23, 2024
How China Regulates Tech
Jun 23, 2024
Internet Governance Is At A Crossroads
Jun 23, 2024
The Demise of CrowdTangle and What It Means for Independent Technology Research
Jun 21, 2024
Finding the Humanity in an Automated World
Jun 18, 2024
A Conversation with White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Arati Prabhakar
Jun 16, 2024
AI and Epistemic Risk: A Coming Crisis?
Jun 10, 2024
What's Next for Tech Policy in India After the Elections
Jun 09, 2024
How Are Political Campaigners in the US Using Generative AI?
Jun 06, 2024
The Role of Shareholder Activism in Tech Accountability
Jun 02, 2024
Shadow Report on AI Addresses What the US Senate Missed
May 26, 2024
A Perspective on Meta's Moderation of Palestinian Voices
May 26, 2024
AI: Past, Present, and Future with Chris Stokel-Walker
May 19, 2024
Prioritizing Civil Rights in US AI Policy: Claudia Ruiz and Alejandra Montoya-Boyer
May 19, 2024
What We're Talking About When We Talk About Rural AI
May 12, 2024
A Hippocratic Oath for AI? A Conversation with Chinmayi Sharma
May 11, 2024
Don't Hype Disinfo, Say Disinfo Experts
May 05, 2024
Resisting AI and the Consolidation of Power
May 04, 2024
What's Next for TikTok, and US Tech Policy
Apr 28, 2024
Securing Privacy Rights to Advance Civil Rights
Apr 21, 2024
The Societal Impacts of Foundation Models, and Access to Data for Researchers
Apr 14, 2024
Elon Musk's X Loses in Court: Why It Matters for Independent Technology Research
Apr 07, 2024
Nathan Schneider on Democratic Design for Online Life
Apr 06, 2024
Reforming Tech Amidst a Global Backlash Against Women's Rights
Mar 31, 2024
Unpacking the Oral Argument in Murthy v Missouri
Mar 24, 2024
What's at Stake in Murthy v Missouri?
Mar 17, 2024
Exploring the Intersection of Information Integrity, Race, and US Elections
Mar 10, 2024
US Supreme Court Considers Florida and Texas Social Media Laws
Mar 03, 2024
What Leverage Remains to Preserve Free Expression in Hong Kong?
Feb 29, 2024
How to Counter Disinformation Based on Science
Feb 25, 2024
Evaluating the Role of Media in the January 6 Attack on the US Capitol
Feb 25, 2024
Pakistan and the Intersection of Tech & Elections
Feb 24, 2024
FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya on Algorithmic Fairness, Voice Cloning, and the Future
Feb 18, 2024
Ranking Content On Signals Other Than User Engagement
Feb 18, 2024
Imagining AI Countergovernance
Feb 11, 2024
Tech CEOs Face the US Senate on Child Safety
Feb 04, 2024
How to Assess AI Governance Tools
Jan 28, 2024
How to Defend Independent Technology Research from Corporate and Political Opposition
Jan 21, 2024
Questioning OpenAI's Nonprofit Status
Jan 14, 2024
Evaluating Social Media's Role in the Israel-Hamas War
Jan 07, 2024
Exposing the Rotten Reality of AI Training Data
Dec 31, 2023
An FDA for AI?
Dec 24, 2023
What Are We Building, and Why?
Dec 17, 2023
Tracking Oversight of Surveillance in the US and EU
Dec 10, 2023
Europe Advances Its AI Act
Dec 10, 2023
Checking on the Progress of Content Moderators in Africa
Dec 03, 2023
The Saga at OpenAI: Lessons for Policymakers
Nov 26, 2023
AI and Harms to Artists and Creators
Nov 19, 2023
Broken Code: A Conversation with Jeff Horwitz
Nov 14, 2023
Policing the City: A Conversation with Matthew Guariglia
Nov 12, 2023
Artificial Intelligence and Your Voice
Nov 05, 2023
A Design Code for Big Tech
Oct 29, 2023
Unpacking the Bangalore Ideology
Oct 22, 2023
How to Control Our Appetite for Misinformation
Oct 15, 2023
Digital Empires: A Conversation with Anu Bradford
Oct 08, 2023
Artificial Intelligence as a Tool of Repression
Oct 04, 2023
The EU AI Act Enters Final Negotiations
Oct 01, 2023
The Luddites and Lessons for the Next Rebellion
Sep 27, 2023
Graphic Content, Trauma and Meaning: A Conversation with Alexa Koenig and Andrea Lampros
Sep 24, 2023
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Conversation with Kashmir Hill
Sep 24, 2023
The Problem with the "Big" in Big Tech
Sep 17, 2023
Assessing the Problem of Disinformation
Sep 10, 2023
Paul Gowder on The Networked Leviathan
Sep 03, 2023
Choosing Our Words Carefully
Aug 27, 2023
Containing Big Tech
Aug 20, 2023
Assessing India's Digital Personal Data Protection Bill
Aug 13, 2023
The State of State AI Laws
Aug 06, 2023
Examining the Meta 2020 US Election Research Partnership
Aug 02, 2023
Alex Winter on The YouTube Effect
Jul 30, 2023
Ifeoma Ajunwa on The Quantifed Worker
Jul 23, 2023
Justine Bateman on AI, Labor, and the Future of Entertainment
Jul 23, 2023
Content Moderation, Encryption, and the Law
Jul 16, 2023
Extended Reality and the Law
Jul 09, 2023
Reading the Civic Information Handbook
Jul 06, 2023
Your Guides Through the Hellscape of AI Hype
Jul 02, 2023
The Implications of Canada's Online News Act
Jun 30, 2023
Exploring Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Jun 25, 2023
A Conversation with Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal
Jun 18, 2023
Recoding America: A Conversation with Jennifer Pahlka
Jun 11, 2023
A Recap of the US-EU Trade and Technology Council Meeting with Mark Scott
Jun 04, 2023
Responsible Release and Accountability for Generative AI Systems
May 28, 2023
The Supreme Court Decides: A Final Word on Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh with Anupam Chander
May 21, 2023
Nick Seaver on Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation
May 14, 2023
Malcolm Harris on Palo Alto and the Project of Silicon Valley
May 07, 2023
Gus Hurwitz on Technology and the Law
May 03, 2023
Twitter Whistleblower Anika Collier Navaroli Looks Forward
Apr 30, 2023
A Conversation with Baroness Beeban Kidron on Child Online Safety
Apr 27, 2023
A Conversation with Denmark's Tech Ambassador, Anne Marie Engtoft Larsen
Apr 23, 2023
AI Accountability and the Risks of Social Interfaces
Apr 21, 2023
Is OpenAI Cultivating Fear to Sell AI?
Apr 18, 2023
The Cambridge Analytica Scandal, Five Years Later: Part 2
Apr 16, 2023
The Cambridge Analytica Scandal, Five Years Later: Part 1
Apr 16, 2023
Behind the Mic with Quinta Jurecic, Bridget Todd & Justin Hendrix
Apr 09, 2023
Gaia Bernstein on Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies
Apr 02, 2023
More Than a Glitch: A Conversation with Meredith Broussard
Mar 26, 2023
Generative AI, Section 230 and Liability: Assessing the Questions
Mar 23, 2023
A History of Data from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
Mar 19, 2023
A Conversation with Tobias Bacherle
Mar 17, 2023
Peter Pomerantzev on Tech, Media and Democracy
Mar 12, 2023
Mitigating the Ethical and Legal Risks of Synthetic Media and Generative AI
Mar 05, 2023
Of Legislators and Large Language Models
Mar 04, 2023
An Exit Interview with a Hill Staffer
Feb 26, 2023
The People Powering Amazon's Trickle-Down Monopoly
Feb 26, 2023
A Deep Dive Into Gonzalez v. Google
Feb 19, 2023
Evaluating Cries of Censorship on Capitol Hill
Feb 12, 2023
Voices in the Code: Algorithms, People, and Values
Feb 05, 2023
Samuel Woolley on Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Age of Automation and Anonymity
Jan 31, 2023
An Indigenous Perspective on Generative AI
Jan 29, 2023
A Causal Link Between Facebook and Mental Health
Jan 22, 2023
Examining the Impact of Internet Research Agency Tweets in the 2016 U.S. Election
Jan 15, 2023
Election Disinformation and the Violence in Brazil
Jan 14, 2023
Shedding Light on Google's Dark Side
Jan 08, 2023
Results of the January 6th Committee's Social Media Investigation
Jan 06, 2023
A Conversation with Avi Asher-Schapiro
Dec 28, 2022
Confronting Hate and Extremism in Online Games
Dec 18, 2022
Examining Meta’s Cross-Check Program
Dec 14, 2022
Chinese Censorship and Surveillance in a Moment of Unrest: Part 2
Dec 11, 2022
Chinese Censorship and Surveillance in a Moment of Unrest: Part 1
Dec 10, 2022
Scrutinizing "The Twitter Files"
Dec 04, 2022
Dissecting Tech Manifestos
Nov 27, 2022
The Whiteness of Mastodon
Nov 23, 2022
You Are Not Expected to Understand This
Nov 20, 2022
What is Lost if Twitter Fails?
Nov 18, 2022
Internet Shutdowns and Censorship, in Iran and Beyond
Nov 16, 2022
The Impact of the U.S. Midterm Elections on Tech Policy
Nov 13, 2022
Black Skinhead: A Conversation with Brandi Collins-Dexter
Nov 06, 2022
Examining Programmatic Political Advertising in the United States
Nov 01, 2022
Danielle Citron on The Fight for Privacy
Oct 30, 2022
Elections, Misinformation, and Political Discourse in U.S. Latino Communities
Oct 25, 2022
Platform Election Policies, Now and Then
Oct 23, 2022
Contending with Spyware and Oppression in Thailand
Oct 16, 2022
Model Suggests Digital Media Contributing to “Maelstrom” of Societal Division
Oct 13, 2022
Unpacking the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
Oct 11, 2022
Debate Over Content Moderation Heads to the Supreme Court
Oct 09, 2022
Digital Governance and the State of Democracy: Why Does it Matter?
Oct 08, 2022
The Supreme Court Takes Up Two Cases That Could Transform the Internet
Oct 04, 2022
Election Misinformation Thrives on Major Social Media Platforms
Oct 02, 2022
Contemplating the "Uselessness" of AI Ethics
Sep 27, 2022
Trust and Safety Comes of Age?
Sep 25, 2022
Can Big Tech Platforms Operate Responsibly on a Global Scale?
Sep 18, 2022
Understanding Digital Dragnets: Surveillance in the Age of Smartphones
Sep 14, 2022
Mitigating Election Disinformation in Brazil
Sep 11, 2022
Douglas Ruskhkoff, the Survival of the Richest and... the Battle of Endor?
Sep 06, 2022
Contemplating YouTube's Rise: A Conversation with Author Mark Bergen
Sep 04, 2022
Facebook's White Supremacist Problem
Aug 30, 2022