Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI)
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Knight-Georgetown Institute connects independent research with technology policy and design.
An interesting and important report by @knightgtown on the technical feasibility of a potential Chrome spinoff. Great research by @alissacooper
New article on the Pinterest Engineering Blog 💻 Read more about how Pinner surveys help us move toward "healthier personalization" aligning to our commitment to build a more inspired internet. medium.com/pinterest-engi…
KGI's Peter Chapman was featured on @techpolicypress, breaking down AliExpress' recent binding commitments under the EU’s Digital Services Act on six key areas including recommender and advertising system transparency and researcher data access. Read here: techpolicy.press/lessons-from-a…
🚨NEW Report: The Technical Feasibility of Divesting Google Chrome 🚨 Our report shows a Google Chrome divestiture is technically feasible and offers an engineering assessment of what it would take to separate Chrome from Google – and succeed kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and-c… #USvGoogle
.@alissacooper of @knightgtown emphasizes the need to think upstream about speech, platforms, and AI governance because: “In the world of content moderation, we have lost the war.” Many calories spent in content moderation - need to look elsewhere. @RSI
We should learn from the lessons of social media and how to design product for better goals and how to not design (algos just for folks to stay engaged, click, reshare) @alissacooper