Laura Edelson

First marshmallow of the year!

I’m working on a paper for a law review journal. I can’t believe I’m saying this but you folks should seriously consider LaTex, the way you do footnotes and citations is insane.

RT @justinhendrix@mastodon.social
New podcast: An Exit Interview with a Hill Staffer

Anna Lenhart (@AnnaCLenhart) just came off a stint working on antitrust issues and tech policy with Rep. David Cicilline and Rep. Lori Trahan. We discussed what she learned in her time with Congress: https://techpolicy.press/an-exit-interview-with-a-hill-staffer/

RT @QuantaMagazine
The infamous double-slit experiment implies that both of a particle’s possible paths through a barrier have a physical reality. The path integral assumes this is how particles behave even when there are no barriers or slits around. https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-our-reality-may-be-a-sum-of-all-possible-realities-20230206/

RT @davidlazer
Not good news. Just in from @TwitterDev , which confirms the elimination of the academic API, and the replacement with a "low level of API usage" for $100/month.

RT @JCPerrino
In written testimony, former Twitter Global Head of Trust & Safety Yoel Roth calls for transparency and researcher access to study social media data. https://bit.ly/3JNhBc5

RT @brandonsilverm
Last week, Twitter announced they were going to be shutting down free access to their APIs. While there are a lot of malicious bots that take advantage of those APIs, there are also a lot of incredibly important use cases that serve the broader public interest.

RT @RebekahKTromble
Should @elonmusk @Policy@mastodon.social keep the @TwitterAPI accessible and usable for journalists, academics, and civil society? 1/

Should @elonmusk @Policy@mastodon.social keep the @TwitterAPI free and accessible for journalists, academics and civil society researchers?

RT @PENamerica
As she departs @themarkup, @JuliaAngwin offers 10 of the most important lessons she's learned in the past 5 years, including, "journalists must work harder to prove that their accounting of the truth is the most credible version." https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/02/04/journalistic-lessons-for-the-algorithmic-age #Journalism #Trust #News

Julia has done more to inform the public about how Big Tech works than anyone I can think of. She, and her work, are why I focus my research on developing public transparency frameworks that can serve both researchers and journalists. I can’t wait to see what she does next!
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RT @JuliaAngwin
I’m sad to report that I am leaving @themarkup to pursue other projects, which I will announce soon. It was an honor and a privilege to found @T@mastodon.social…
https://twitter.com/JuliaAngwin/status/1621856597491306498

You should read this whole thread 👇
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RT @RebekahKTromble
Yesterday Twitter announced that it would “no longer support free access to the Twitter API,” effective in just one week.

Despite outreach from policymakers, Twitter hasn’t clarified whether this applies to its academic researcher access program. https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1621026986784337922 1/
https://twitter.com/RebekahKTromble/status/1621566354707910656

The deadline to apply for TechCongress has been extended to Feb. 16! This program is doing so much to bring technical expertise to Congress., and gives technologists a front-row seat to see how Congress really works. You should think about applying!
https://www.techcongress.io/apply

What was done to @BostonJoan is frightening. We're in a race to study how and why social media is so vulnerable to misinformation so we can make these systems safer. We need her research, and we need HER. What a black mark for academic freedom.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/2/2/donovan-forced-leave-hks/

Before I got banned from Facebook, I wasn’t much of a Twitter user. But #AcademicTwitter is here and over the last couple of years, this platform clicked for me me in a way that other social media never had. I’m so sad about what’s happening to it and really hope it can be saved.
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RT @daveyalba@mastodon.social
We spoke to more than a dozen current & former employees for this story. They told us that since Musk took the helm of Twitter, Irwin has help…
https://twitter.com/daveyalba/status/1618763207170203648