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Tag: social media

toxic speech
Posted inMy Turn

How social media companies can self-regulate toxic, hate speech

Avatar by Guest Commentary January 27, 2021January 26, 2021

By using Artificial Intelligence, Big Tech can enforce objective policies on users’ hateful, inflammatory, racist or toxic speech, and apply them consistently.

disinformation
Posted inMy Turn

Combating disinformation requires investments in community media

Avatar by Guest Commentary January 19, 2021January 18, 2021
social media
Posted inMy Turn

A time of reckoning for social media

Avatar by Guest Commentary January 15, 2021January 14, 2021
Posted inVotebeat

State worked with social companies to remove election misinformation

by Freddy Brewster December 29, 2020December 30, 2020
"Simple. Secure. Trustworthy. Counted." A sign reads in Spanish encouraging voters to vote by mail Off I-5 on November 3, 2020. Photo by Clara Mokri for CalMatters
Posted inVotebeat

How election officials fought fiction with fact

by Freddy Brewster and Katie Licari December 2, 2020December 3, 2020
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez speaks emotionally on favor of her bill AB 5, which would re-classify contract workers, before the concurrence vote in the assembly on September 11, 2019. The bill passed 56-15.
Posted inMultimedia

The Deciders: Meet the lawmaker behind new gig economy law

Byrhonda LyonsAvatar by Byrhonda Lyons and Laurel Rosenhall September 20, 2019September 20, 2019
Posted inNewsletters, WhatMatters

Taxes, tech monopolies, and retired judges’ age discrimination claim

Dan Morain by Dan Morain May 13, 2019
Posted inElection 2018, Politics

California election night’s top tweets from the right, the left and CALmatters

CalMattersby CalMattersJune 5, 2018June 23, 2020
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