Accurate political polling often relies on people answering the phone and giving honest answers. Harvard’s Bruce Schneier is investigating digital personas’ potential to fill in the response and reliability gaps.
As the federal government’s lawyer argued the short-form app posed a national security threat, TikTok and some of its users argued a potential ban is unconstitutional. Anupam Chander, professor of law and technology at Georgetown Law, says judges are mixed on the case.
Journalist Steven Brachmann explains why Tennessee, Illinois and California have taken action against unauthorized deepfakes. Congress is weighing a bipartisan federal effort.
A recent report from Cybersecurity for Democracy looked at Meta’s ads library and found that a majority of ads that linked to Telegram involved channels promoting the sale of drugs, financial scams and child sexual abuse material.
Axios reporter Brady Dale explains why the cryptocurrency industry is spending millions on down-ballot races and supporting candidates from both sides of the political aisle.
“It’s hard to be a woman in tech,” says Lisa Mae Brunson, founder of Wonder Women Tech. Pre-pandemic, the industry was eager to invest in DEI. But culture change proved difficult, she says, and the political climate shifted.
In our “Decoding Democracy” series, Danielle Lee Tomson, research manager at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, explains that rumors of noncitizen voting are fueling uncertainty around the election.
NASA astronauts have been stuck in space since June. Steven Feldstein, senior fellow at Carnegie’s Democracy, Conflict and Governance program, explains why the space agency leaned on SpaceX to help bring them back home by next February.
