Technology & Innovation

Canceled – How hate and harassment in online gaming influence civic life

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

A tweet by US president Donald Trump is seen being flagged as inciting violence by Twitter in this photo illustration on an Apple iPhone in Warsaw, Poland on May 29, 2020. Twitter on May 29 applied a fact-checking label to a vote-in-mail tweet by US President Donald Trump that the company considers misleading. Twitter has recently started labelling tweets with public notification and fact check labels. The labelling of Trump's tweet about the uproar following the death of George Floyd has seen the president signing an executive order targeting the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 which protects social media companies against lawsuits against them for user generated content. (Photo by Jaap Arriens / Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

The legacy of Trump’s social media content policing

Monday, March 15, 2021

Should the government play a role in reducing algorithmic bias?

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM EST

A mobile phone mast with 5G technology is pictured at the 5G Mobility Lab of telecommunications company Vodafone in Aldenhoven, Germany, November 27, 2018. Picture taken November 27, 2018. REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen - RC18E49931E0

Spectrum: The pathway of the 21st century

Friday, March 12, 2021

A sign announces the jobs open at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the Job Market at the South by Southwest Music Film Interactive Festival 2017 in Austin

Auditing employment algorithms for discrimination

Friday, March 12, 2021

A drone takes off in Ghana to deliver medical supplies.

The promises and perils of Africa’s digital revolution

Nathaniel Allen

Thursday, March 11, 2021

The Iberian Peninsula at night, showing Spain and Portugal, is seen in an undated NASA handout picture taken from the International Space Station. Madrid is the bright spot just above the center. The clarity of the night image is possible thanks to the European Space Agency's NightPod, installed on the station in 2012, according to a NASA news release. It incorporates a motorized tripod that compensates for the station's speed of approximately 17,500 mph and the motion of the Earth below. REUTERS/NASA/Handout via Reuters (OUTER SPACE - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS

America Needs a Tech New Deal

Nicol Turner Lee

Thursday, March 11, 2021

Lessons for online platform regulation from Australia vs. Facebook

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Community members march down El Paseo shopping district in Palm Desert in rebuke of the shutdown mandate by the state government to stop the spread of COVID-19 on December 9, 2020.Coivd Protest

Why America has great science but terrible politics

Darrell M. West

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

A man wearing a protective face mask walks under surveillance cameras as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Shanghai, China March 4, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

TechTank Podcast Episode 14: How companies surveil workers and ways employees can protect themselves

Darrell M. West

Monday, March 8, 2021