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toxic speech

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

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

Combating disinformation requires investments in community media

by Guest Commentary January 19, 2021January 18, 2021

social media

A time of reckoning for social media

by Guest Commentary January 15, 2021January 14, 2021

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

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.

The Deciders: Meet the lawmaker behind new gig economy law

by Byrhonda Lyons and Laurel Rosenhall September 20, 2019September 20, 2019

Newsletters, WhatMatters

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

by Dan Morain May 13, 2019

Election 2018, Politics

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

by CalMattersJune 5, 2018June 23, 2020