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UK Election Watchdog Develops AI System to Flag Deepfakes Within 3 Hours
(Techpolicypress)
The CEO of the Electoral Commission told me how often it faces cyberattack:

"We run about [...] 30 to 40,000 attacks a month, often peaking at 10,000 a day at times. That's cyber-attacks, big botnets, thousands of emails, phishing attacks, all around."

Full article in @techpolicypress.bsky.social
UK Election Watchdog Develops AI System to Flag Deepfakes Within 3 Hours
The AI-powered system is designed to notify candidates of significant deepfakes within three hours of posting to social media, reports James Ball.
www.techpolicy.press
October 15, 2026 at 5:36 PM
More transparency doesn’t necessarily mean better understanding. @TechPolicyPress explores why meaningful reports from AI companies start with considering who the information is for and whether it's actually useful to that audience.
AI companies are publishing more transparency reports, system cards and incident disclosures. Dunstan Allison-Hope and Sam Wallace on how AI companies should think about disclosure.
AI Transparency Starts With the Audience
As AI companies and their stakeholders rush into an agenda of increased transparency, Sam Wallace and Dunstan Allison-Hope encourage a more strategic approach.
buff.ly
October 10, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Wow, LinkedIn's algorithm really doesn't want people to read @sarahgilbert's article about keeping the Internet human in the era of AI

Out of the 10,200 impressions the feed gave my posts last week, it only gave 65 to Sarah's *important* article in @techpolicypress

As Sarah writes, "If AI […]
Original post on social.coop
social.coop
September 29, 2026 at 11:36 AM
@natematias @sarahgilbert @techpolicypress may be it doesn’t make sense to post on LinkedIn anymore at all. If amount of output is what counts there human content doesn’t have a chance anyway.
September 29, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Dr Sarah Gilbert, Research Director at Citizens and Technology Labs. An expert on this topic. (Not the actress and producer of the same name, because I am a dummkopf and was confused. Sorry. I'm learning.)

@natematias @sarahgilbert @techpolicypress
September 29, 2026 at 2:21 PM
@natematias @sarahgilbert @techpolicypress

A single week's impression gap doesn't really isolate algorithm intent from a dozen other explanatory variables, link posts to external sites, article length, topic, engagement velocity in the first hour, any of those could explain most of that 10,200 […]
Original post on social.vir.group
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September 29, 2026 at 12:00 PM
NEW: I've started as an investigative tech reporter at
@openDemocracy & @techpolicypress

Being surveilled or replaced by AI at work? Denied by a Home Office algorithm? Got dirt on Big Tech's grip on UK gov?

Tell me. I’ll fight for your story.
📧eviebreese@opendemocracy.net
🛜Signal: eviebreese.19
September 8, 2026 at 11:46 AM
🧐What’s really going on in the @ElonMusk v. #EU showdown?
At @techpolicypress, @JordiCalBad brings us a deep dive into the EU's claims that @X is in breach of the #DSA, Europe's online safety rulebook.
⬇️Check it out here: www.techpolicy.press/dsa-showdown...
DSA Showdown: Unpacking the EU's Preliminary Findings Against X | TechPolicy.Press
Jordi Calvet-Bademunt helps to cut through the noise by providing a factual overview of DSA enforcement proceedings against X.
www.techpolicy.press
July 17, 2024 at 3:54 PM
📲 As child influencers rise, states are stepping in.

In @techpolicypress, FOSI’s Marissa Edmund breaks down the new wave of legislation aimed at protecting kids from financial exploitation & digital harm.

🧵 Read more: www.techpolicy.press/the-coming-w...
The Coming Wave of Child Influencer Regulation | TechPolicy.Press
States are increasingly stepping up to protect kids’ financial interests and empower child content creators, Marissa Edmund writes.
www.techpolicy.press
July 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Dear colleagues,

I have posted about this briefly before but now explained the TikTok API issues that Andreas Neumeier, Wiebke Drews, Jasmin Riedl and I found in more detail in this op-ed on TechPolicyPress 📰 🌐

www.techpolicy.press/-researcher-...
Researcher Data Access Under the DSA: Lessons from TikTok's API Issues During the 2024 European Elections | TechPolicy.Press
Philipp Darius examines issues with TikTok’s researcher API and makes recommendations for how DSA enforcers can improve infrastructure for researcher data.
www.techpolicy.press
September 25, 2024 at 1:58 PM
[PODCAST]🎙️ "A Roadmap for Confronting the Chilling Effects of Censorship, Surveillance and New Technology"

podcasts.wesfryer.com/episode/r9y0...

#TechPolicyPress with Jonathon W. Penney, author of “Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age”

#privacy #surveillance
August 3, 2026 at 2:12 PM
[PODCAST] #TechPolicyPress "How To Get Paid to Polarize on TikTok"
pca.st/episode/365b4243-3688-...

#MediaLit #AI #AIslop #pola#MediaLit##AIi#AIslope#polarization #disinfoR#DeepFake
February 22, 2026 at 11:35 PM
May 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
(1/2) I’m listening again to the #TechPolicyPress [PODCAST] Towards Resilience: A Conversation with Kate Starbird About the Future of Online Elections Discourse (8 Dec 2024, 33 min)
pca.st/episode/ed93...

#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #EduSky
March 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
(2/2) telling a compelling story…”

#TechPolicyPress [PODCAST] “Towards Resilience: A Conversation with Kate Starbird About the Future of Online Elections Discourse”
pca.st/episode/ed93...

#MediaLit #edtechSR #ConCW #SocialMedia
Towards Resilience: A Conversation with Kate Starbird About the Future of Online Elections Discourse - The Sunday Show
Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. The Sunday Show is its podcast. You...
pca.st
December 10, 2024 at 12:59 AM
(1/3) #PodcastQueue recommendation: #TechPolicyPress [PODCAST] The Race for AI Supremacy (17 Nov 2024)
pca.st/episode/0fa9...

Fantastic conversation with journalist and author Parmy Olson. Her new book is “Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the
November 27, 2024 at 3:19 PM
(1/3) Great [PODCAST] conversation with Philip M. Napoli from Duke University about our transformed information environment replete with disinformation & systemic attacks on media literacy academic researchers:

“Documenting the Assault on Disinformation and Hate Speech Research” by #TechPolicyPress
November 24, 2024 at 10:49 PM
(1/2) [PODCAST] Exploring the Intersection of Information Integrity, Race, and US Elections by #TechPolicyPress

pca.st/episode/5df6...

#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #edtechSR #ConCW #politics #polarization #AI #racism

Concerns about “targeted chaos” in upcoming US
Exploring the Intersection of Information Integrity, Race, and US Elections - The Sunday Show
Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. The Sunday Show is its podcast. You...
pca.st
March 18, 2024 at 1:13 AM
Listening to #TechPolicyPress [PODCAST] Digital Empires: A Conversation with Anu Bradford

pca.st/episode/9d09...

#edtechSR #China #AI #future #Taiwan #ChipWar #TechCorrection #TechLash
Digital Empires: A Conversation with Anu Bradford - The Sunday Show
Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. The Sunday Show is its podcast. You...
pca.st
October 9, 2023 at 12:05 AM
US Big Tech (Gafam)
lobbied EU
infiltrated EU tech infrastructure

hided environmental costs of data centres
(techpolicypress)
Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their data centers, Investigate Europe reports in collaboration with Tech Policy Press and other media partners.
How Big Tech Lobbied the EU to Hide Data Centers' Environmental Toll
The European Commission has adopted industry-drafted language shielding data center emissions data from public view, report Nico Schmidt and Ella Joyner.
www.techpolicy.press
April 18, 2026 at 9:28 AM