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Brian Fishman on Violent Extremism and Platform Liability

The Lawfare Podcast

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The Risks of Hall Monitor Journalism

The DSA is trying to ensure that these platforms have real systems in place. Oftentimes the things that are most dangerous that point to the most acute real world harms are not the ones that are getting amplified by a recommendation engine. And I worry about scenarios where you get sort of incentives for sort of hall monitor journalism or hall monitor regulation that actually sidesteps and ignores the sorts of things that platforms might do around content movements, actors that they have visibility into but public actors do not.

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