California is investigating OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit company
California's Attorney General is investigating OpenAI's shift from a nonprofit to a for-profit public benefit corporation, raising concerns about the potential misuse of charitable assets and the precedent it could set for other tech startups.
Fearing AI Will Take Their Jobs, Workers Plan a Long Battle Against Tech
Khari Johnson, Digital Technology for Democracy Lab practitioner fellow, discusses a landmark gathering in California where workers discussed defenses against artificial intelligence and surveillance technology.
U.S. and China: The Battle for Digital Supremacy
Aynne Kokas, faculty co-lead of the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab, discusses the ongoing data regulation dispute between China and the United States and provides insights on how the Trump administration might regulate data collection.
Gendering Information Integrity: Lessons from Feminist Scholarship to Media Policy
UVA's Digital Technology for Democracy Lab postdoc fellow Yasmin Curzi reflects on broadening the information integrity debate from a Southern feminist perspective.
Brazil seeks to break Starlink monopoly
We don’t know to what extent [the election of Donald Trump] could affect Brazil’s sovereignty," worries Yasmin Curzi of UVA's Digital Technology for Democracy Lab.
Modeling Life Itself: Madhav Marathe and the Science of Biocomplexity
In this episode of Hoos in STEM, host Ken Ono, UVA's STEM Advisor to the Provost, speaks with Madhav Marathe, Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute. Marathe leads one of UVA’s most interdisciplinary research hubs where mathematicians, epidemiologists, social scientists, and AI systems work together to simulate the complex systems that shape our lives and is a faculty affiliate of the DTD Lab.
Elon Musk’s feud with Brazilian judge is much more than a personal spat − it’s about national sovereignty, freedom of speech and the rule of law
Brazil’s attempt to strike a balance between free speech and regulation of online platforms has become politicized, writes Digital Technology for Democracy Lab's Yasmin Curzi de Mendonça.
Elon Musk uses X to push his own story about the platform’s suspension in Brazil
“[Brazil's] laws pertaining to free speech are different from the First Amendment in this country,” said the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab's David Nemer.
How Brazil’s Experiment Fighting Fake News Led to a Ban on X
"When we saw the X decision, we were like: ‘What the hell? This is too much,’” said the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab's David Nemer. “It was a warning to all of us.”
With Musk’s X banned in Brazil, its users carve out new digital homes
Weak performance belies X's importance as a gathering place for journalists, politicians, academics, and celebrities whose interactions resounded far beyond, according to the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab's faculty co-lead, David Nemer.
