Emma Llansó on the Most Important Content Moderation Database You’ve Never Heard Of
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 27 August 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This week on Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Emma Llansó, the director of the Free Expression Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). They discussed the Global Internet Forum, or GIFCT, a consortium which houses a shared database of content that platforms use to remove terrorism-related material. Emma makes the case for why it’s worth paying attention to—and why she finds it concerning.
They also talked about CDT’s lawsuit against President Trump over his recent executive order aiming to constrain platforms’ leeway to moderate content, which the CDT is arguing violates the First Amendment.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:33.9 | Ultimately what I am working for is for people to have the widest array of choice of access |
| 0:41.8 | to platforms for their own speech access to information. |
| 0:45.4 | The most information that they can get to be informed users of these different services. |
| 0:51.9 | I think obviously content moderation plays a huge role in shaping people's experiences |
| 0:57.7 | online. |
| 0:58.7 | We need to hold companies accountable for this kind of enormous power that they are using |
| 1:05.7 | to every day to shape who gets to speak what information is available and, in fact, the |
| 1:10.8 | positive things that they do to make access to information possible to make formation |
| 1:15.8 | of communities and exchange of ideas online possible. |
| 1:19.8 | I'm Quintar Rutsek and this is the LawFair podcast, August 27, 2020. |
| 1:27.6 | This week on our Arbiters of Truth Series on Disinformation, I've owned Wacanized spoke |
| 1:32.2 | with Emma Lonzo, the director of the Free Expression Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology |
| 1:38.5 | or CDT. |
| 1:40.5 | Emma has done a lot of interesting work at CDT but we've tried to have her on to discuss |
| 1:44.3 | one issue in particular, the global internet forum to counter terrorism or gift CT. |
| 1:50.6 | You've probably never heard of this consortium, which houses a shared database of content |
| 1:56.4 | that platforms use to remove terrorism-related material. |
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