Mentions and quotations in media
Even if it’s the act of a “lone wolf”, as first suggested by US President Donald Trump, Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner drama certainly did not happen in a vacuum. And just as mass shootings have become commonplace in a United States overrun by firearms, so have attempts on the lives of political figures. […]
By Benjamin Von Wyl Switzerland’s finance minister, Karin Keller-Sutter, has lodged a formal complaint over online abuse linked to the Grok AI chatbot. It is a bold signal against digital abuse and marks a clear break from the US understanding of free speech. Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence model Grok has courted controversy in recent months. […]
By Peggy Sastre Since October 7, 2023, and the terrorist massacre perpetrated by Hamas in Israel, and since the obscene jubilation that has all too often accompanied it, even in the comfort of our own societies, antisemitism has resurfaced in France. It wears that familiar, simultaneously archaic and very contemporary face : brutal, mimetic, and […]
By Greg Lukianoff and Adam Thierer Cameron Berg, founder and director of the AI cognition nonprofit Reciprocal Research, published a smart essay in The Wall Street Journal yesterday called “AI Is Bound to Subvert Communism.” In it, Berg gets at something many Americans still seem reluctant to admit: China wants world-class AI, but it also […]
Davenport University is a private institution in Grand Rapids, Mich., with an undergraduate enrollment below 6,000 students. The school maintains 27 varsity athletic programs that compete in the NCAA’s Division II, where they have mostly languished in national obscurity. Yet a quick Google search leads to a place where the Davenport Panthers have drawn notice, […]
In the latest body blow to the social media industry, Massachusetts’ highest court on Friday ruled that the state can sue technology giant Meta over allegations its popular online sites Facebook and Instagram are too addictive to minors. The ruling comes in the wake of major courtroom defeats for the industry in other states. Just […]
Interviewer: Jillian York Jacob Mchangama is a Danish lawyer, human rights advocate, and public commentator. He is the Founder and Executive Director of The Future of Free Speech, a nonpartisan think tank located at Vanderbilt University. His new book with Jeff Kosseff, The Future of Free Speech: Reversing the Global Decline of Democracy’s Most Essential […]
By Miguel Angel Aguilar On March 11, the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced the launch of the tool “HODIO: Hate and Polarization footprint” that will have the function of measuring the presence, evolution and scope of hate speech on digital platforms. [ . . . ] As Jacob Mchangama has written in his […]
By Mike Masnick We’ve been saying for years now that Jonathan Haidt’s crusade against social media and kids is a moral panic dressed up in academic robes, and that the evidence simply does not support the sweeping claims he’s been making. A new piece in the Wall Street Journal by Jacob Mchangama and Jeff Kosseff […]
By Manuel Buron Being as we are – dancing to the deranged of presidential advisers and court sentences, I mean – in Spain a strange controversy went unnoticed. A professor at the University of Texas is preparing, as every year, to teach. Among the mandatory readings of his subject includes – who can think of […]