Today, we're launching our interactive North Star Data Center Policy Toolkit to stop, slow, and restrict the rapid expansion of US AI data centers. The toolkit and training series lay out affirmative local, state, and federal policies to protect communities: datacenters.ainowinstitute.org 🧵
On Tuesday, EPIC and 63 other civil society organizations sent a letter strongly opposing plans to integrate facial recognition into Meta glasses to Meta, Ray-Ban’s parent company, the White House, the FTC, the DOJ, several state attorneys general, and the leaders of key congressional committees.
Read @edwardongwesojr.com on “the attempt to shift Pax Americana’s oil diplomacy to Pax Silica’s silicon statecraft—from hydrocarbons & Treasuries to GPUs & data centers & AI models & the kill chains they power” www.thetechbubble.info/p/how-much-a...
"Humans are no longer in the decision loop, but AI is being programmed to kill." –CISI Founder @bostonjoan.bsky.social on AI warfare as experimental & extractive, on @wgbh.org www.youtube.com/live/5wk4LtO...
The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?
I am excited to debut a new segment I am co-creating with @wgbh.org and The Curiosity Desk.
This week, we discussed a new website, inequalities.ai, which reveals the biases and opinions of ChatGPT on a range of topics.
Listen and explore the website!
If you hated that Ring ad, have I got a book for you.
This is situation is entirely predictable and can be prevented.
@criticalinternet.bsky.social conducts in-depth research on election disinformation and political violence. Already, organized right wing vigilante groups are publicly filming voting stations and ballot boxes for intimidation.
Image of a flyer for a livestream panel titled Digital Colonization & the Collapse of Collective Life
Livestream tomorrow @ 4:30pm ET! Featuring CISI's @bostonjoan.bsky.social alongside @maryannefranks.bsky.social, @nicoperrino.bsky.social, & @leticiabode.bsky.social via @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social & @georgetownlaw.bsky.social Technology Review georgetownlawtechreview.org/symposium-2/...
“If this technology had existed in earlier decades, it would have been used to track civil rights activists, LGBTQ+ patrons visiting gay bars, women trying to vote, or enslaved people escaping bondage. None of those acts were considered “legal” at the time.”
Disinformation research is forbidden knowledge.
We cant back down and re-orient our field to appease the dominant political ideology.
We need to be advancing public knowledge about media manipulation and disinformation.
Why? Because disinformation is a tool of the powerful to suppress opposition
tag yourself i’m ’being kind of mean’
2026 In & Out List 💅 #happynewyear
"Instead of thinking of technological change as the death knell of news media, there is a huge opportunity ahead for education of the general public on the ethics & methods of journalism." –CISI Founder @bostonjoan.bsky.social in @niemanlab.org
CISI Founder @bostonjoan.bsky.social quoted in @us.theguardian.com on the tactical "rage bait" of this administration's social media posts www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I talked to Joan Donovan about Twitter's very old foreign influence problem, which was unmasked in the funniest possible way over the weekend: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
TODAY: @404media.co / @jasonkoebler.bsky.social interviews our Co-Director @hypervisible.blacksky.app www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kBg...
“I think they are a profoundly antisocial technology that should be rejected in every way possible...Their very existence is toxic to the social fabric.” –CISI Co-Director @hypervisible.blacksky.app quoted in @theverge.com www.theverge.com/tech/807834/...
ICYMI: Our Co-Director @hypervisible.blacksky.app interviewed by @parismarx.com
Thursday webinar: Catch CISI Co-Director @hypervisible.blacksky.app on AI, libraries, & privacy
I wanted to follow up on the meme discussion with a longer piece about how to understand memes as cultural artifacts with their own politics.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/19/o...
CISI Founder interviewed today in TIME Magazine
Dr. Donovan @bostonjoan.bksy.social breaks it down.
ICYMI: Today, CISI Co-Director @bostonjoan.bsky.social spoke with @anitachabria.bsky.social for the @latimes.com
I’m putting this information out here so that press and police can begin to understand what’s actually motivating Kirk’s murder.
Thank you! We have been deep in the work this week, so this is very appreciated. More to come.
If you want to figure out something productive to do in the aftermath of this horrific week, donating to @criticalinternet.bsky.social is a good place to start. I just did.
We agree.
