Tiffany Li on Privacy and Disinformation
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🗓️ 12 December 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this episode from Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation in the run-up to the 2020 election, Quinta Jurecic, Evelyn Douek, and Alina Polyakova spoke with Tiffany Li, a visiting professor at Boston University and a fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Tiffany writes on all the issues discussed on this podcast—disinformation, misinformation, and platform governance—but with an additional twist. She’s also a privacy scholar. They talked about how privacy law can inform platform governance, and how prioritizing privacy might help tackle disinformation—as well as what tensions there might be between those two goals.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:33.9 | I don't think anyone really knows what the right answer is. |
| 0:36.9 | I do think it's positive that some of the platforms are at least trying to change their |
| 0:40.9 | policies and trying to create thoughtful policies to deal with these issues, but you're |
| 0:45.6 | right. |
| 0:46.6 | Some of it is a bit of a band-aid. |
| 0:48.2 | You're definitely not going to stop this information just by having, say, a more honest |
| 0:53.7 | advertisement policy, but we have seen that this idea of being able to target an advertisement |
| 1:00.1 | towards a certain population that has allowed for some disinformation campaigns to reach |
| 1:05.7 | certain populations and to really spread and proliferate there. |
| 1:09.7 | So potentially this could help a lot, but I think I also want to talk about your point |
| 1:14.2 | of this being a more general problem, right? |
| 1:17.0 | The problem isn't just disinformation. |
| 1:19.6 | The problem is really that we have so much data being collected about us and used against |
| 1:24.6 | us, and we don't really have that many limitations on what companies can do with it. |
| 1:30.8 | I'm Krintajurusik and this is the LawFair podcast, December 12, 2019. |
| 1:38.1 | Today we're bringing you a new episode from our Arbiter's of Truth series on disinformation |
| 1:42.4 | and the run-up to the 2020 election. |
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