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Evelyn Douek

@evelyndouek
312 posts
2026-02-15
surprising amount of chilling of dissent in this new era of tech companies and the government collaborating to stand up for free speech etc [embedded post]
2026-02-15 View on X
New York Times

Sources: the US DHS recently sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas, which do not need a judge's approval, to tech firms to identify people critical of ICE

The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment …

2026-02-14
surprising amount of chilling of dissent in this new era of tech companies and the government collaborating to stand up for free speech etc [embedded post]
2026-02-14 View on X
New York Times

Sources: the US DHS recently sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas, which do not need a judge's approval, to tech firms to identify people critical of ICE

The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment …

2026-01-24
Almost as if allowing the government to broker the terms for the continued operation of a major communications platform is a bad idea and a democratic threat and something there should be a constitutional bar against  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
2026-01-24 View on X
New York Times

ByteDance strikes a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new TikTok US entity and avoid a federal ban, concluding a six-year legal saga

Here's all you need to knowAnkita Chakravarti /Moneycontrol:TikTok avoids US ban after sealing last-minute dealJoy Chakravarty /Arabian Business:Abu Dhabi's MGX buys 15% stake to k...

Almost as if allowing the government to broker the terms for the continued operation of a major communications platform is a bad idea and a democratic threat and something there should be a constitutional bar against  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
2026-01-24 View on X
Wired

TikTok users in the US were presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app's ownership transition and now allow precise location tracking

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location …

2026-01-23
Almost as if allowing the government to broker the terms for the continued operation of a major communications platform is a bad idea and a democratic threat and something there should be a constitutional bar against  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
2026-01-23 View on X
New York Times

ByteDance strikes a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new TikTok US entity and avoid a federal ban, concluding a six-year legal saga

TikTok said on Thursday that its Chinese owner, ByteDance, had struck a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new U.S. TikTok …

2025-12-05
[Image: “The Oversight Board is a hidden jewel for Meta.  It is an incredibly impressive group of people.  Meta is front of the pack because of the openness and responsiveness that Meta demonstrates with the Board.”  Meta Advertiser"] the fact that this is the key quote that the Meta Oversight Board chose to end its Special Edition Newsletter marking 5 years I think says it all
2025-12-05 View on X
Platformer

An overview of the five years of Meta's Oversight Board, whose rulings on the relatively small number of cases that it hears have generally had limited impact

Five years after the Oversight Board's creation, few are satisfied with the result.  Can it be saved?

2025-08-20
Gosh, good thing there's no reason to think that the platform has any incentive to artificially increase the reach of this account or in any other way bend the rules  —  www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
2025-08-20 View on X
Reuters

The White House launches an official TikTok account, aiming to communicate President Trump's messages; the first video shows Trump declaring “I am your voice”

The White House launched an official TikTok account on Tuesday, taking advantage of the short video app's …

2025-07-27
It's hard to write stories about chilling effects, because... how do you write about the absence of something?  But the silence is also deafening, and notable.  —  Good piece by @caseynewton.bsky.social  —  www.platformer.news/trustcon- tru...
2025-07-27 View on X
Platformer

At TrustCon 2025, trust and safety professionals expressed anxiety over the industry's retreat, but no leaders condemned platforms' rollback of safety policies

In 2023, I asked whether we had reached peak trust and safety.  Noting the huge number of layoffs at tech companies that year …

2025-06-19
Welcome to the US, where public debate is “uninhibited, robust, and wide-open”!  Remember not to say anything mean about any Americans and enjoy your stay! [embedded post]
2025-06-19 View on X
Washington Post

The US State Department restarts student visa interviews and requires all applicants to make their social media accounts public for vetting by US embassies

The new requirements could affect hundreds of thousands of visa applications each year, raising concerns about staffing requirements.

2025-06-07
Oh but it's just a divestment order, not a direct speech regulation that might skew the marketplace of ideas or anything [embedded post]
2025-06-07 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Tucker Carlson was on WH's list of potential TikTok investors, with JD Vance pushing for his inclusion, along with others like a16z and Blackstone

Vice-president JD Vance pushed for right-wing media star's inclusion in a deal for video app  —  Alex Rogers in Washington … Bluesky: @evelyndouek , @justinhendrix , @paleofuture ,...

2025-01-30
I wonder if this settlement is more or less than the amount that Meta spent (successfully!) supporting a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court confirming the First Amendment protects their right to remove posts  —  www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...
2025-01-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Meta agrees to pay ~$25M to settle Trump's 2021 lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg after the company suspended his accounts following the January 6 riot

The president had sued the social-media company after his accounts were suspended  —  President Trump has signed settlement papers …

2025-01-07
I am all for revising content moderation approaches in the face of *evidence* that something is or isn't working.  This is all a project of experimentation!  It should be subject to revision.  But companies should release the data to support their assertions.  [embedded post]
2025-01-07 View on X
NBC News

Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning.  —  Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …

Why is the Oversight Board putting out a press release effectively endorsing Meta's fact checking changes and welcoming Meta's new head of public policy?  —  This body has completely lost its compass.  Embarrassing.  —  www.oversightboard.com/news/ oversig...
2025-01-07 View on X
NBC News

Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning.  —  Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …

Joel Kaplan is lucky this statement won't be fact-checked.  [embedded post]
2025-01-07 View on X
NBC News

Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning.  —  Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …

Gives Meta spokespeople something to retweet though, so everyone can pat themselves on the back [image]
2025-01-07 View on X
NBC News

Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning.  —  Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …

2023-10-06
I wrote about the forests and the trees of jawboning, and how much of a role the level of analysis courts are taking is playing in the outcomes they arrive at — jawboning problems, like all content moderation problems, need to be understood in systemic terms https://knightcolumbia.org/...
2023-10-06 View on X
Knight First Amendment Institute

Former Facebook policy staff detail their experience with “jawboning”, or informal government efforts to persuade platforms to change their moderation policies

Dispatches from two former tech platform employees.  —  A research initiative studying governmental efforts …

2023-08-02
“If your clients do file suit, please be advised that CCDH intends to seek immediate discovery regarding hate speech and misinfo on Twitter; Twitter's policies and practices relating to these issues; and Twitter's advertising revenue.” Roberta Kaplan clearly having fun here.
2023-08-02 View on X
Washington Post

X sues the Center for Countering Digital Hate, alleging CCDH researchers violated Twitter's terms of service and the CFAA while studying hate speech on the site

2023-08-01
“If your clients do file suit, please be advised that CCDH intends to seek immediate discovery regarding hate speech and misinfo on Twitter; Twitter's policies and practices relating to these issues; and Twitter's advertising revenue.” Roberta Kaplan clearly having fun here.
2023-08-01 View on X
New York Times

Twitter/X files a lawsuit against Center for Countering Digital Hate, accusing the nonprofit and its backers of “actively working to prevent free expression”

The Center for Countering Digital Hate said it had received a letter from X, Twitter's parent company …

2023-06-28
aHA — called it! me, last month: “I would love to know more about the economics of how these plaintiffs were so ready with their lawsuit, with a very fancy law firm. ” https://law.stanford.edu/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-06-28 View on X
New York Times

TikTok admits to funding the TikTok creators' lawsuit in Montana that is challenging the state's ban of the app, but says the company is not paying the creators

called it! me, last month: “I would love to know more about the economics of how these plaintiffs were so ready with their lawsuit, with a very fancy law firm. ” https://law.stanfo...

2023-05-19
Thomas repeats again & again throughout Taamneh how little screening platforms do of content when it's uploaded. This is helpful to platforms here, but is also a clear easter egg for the Netchoice cases and what Thomas thinks of whether they exercise “editorial discretion”
2023-05-19 View on X
CNN

SCOTUS declines to address Section 230 protections in Gonzalez v. Google and shields Twitter from liability for terror-related content in Twitter v. Taamneh