Brookings
Toxic lead telephone lines: Searching for solutions
Millions of Americans could be affected by thousands of miles of toxic telephone cables. These old cables, legacies from the pre-internet, dial-up telephone era, are sheathed in lead, an element found to be toxic in humans.
Internet referral programs are in urgent need of reform
The US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana barred certain government agencies from working with social media companies for “the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech.” The injunction seems to threaten the myriad of government programs—including those in the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the St
Tom Wheeler: AI makes rules for the metaverse even more important (Brookings)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Tue, 07/25/2023 - 14:37Despair underlies our misinformation crisis: Introducing an interactive tool (Brookings)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Fri, 07/14/2023 - 10:37We shouldn’t turn disinformation into a constitutional right (Brookings)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Tue, 07/11/2023 - 13:17Cameron Kerry: How privacy legislation can help address AI (Brookings)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Tue, 07/11/2023 - 11:31
Fixing the Global Digital Divide and Digital Access Gap
The number of global internet users and the percentage of internet penetration continued to grow from 2021 to 2022 at 7% and 6% respectively.