By Gerrit De Vynck, washingtonpost.com, 4-30-24 Eight major daily newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, sued OpenAI and Microsoft on April 30, joining the backlash to artificial-intelligence companies that have used copyrighted work to train their algorithms without compensating content owners. The group includes South Florida’s Sun Sentinel, the [...]
By Gerrit De Vynck and Naomi Nix, washingtonpost.com, 4-25-24 The biggest tech companies in the world have spent billions of dollars on the artificial intelligence revolution. Now, they’re planning to spend tens of billions more, pushing up demand for computer chips and potentially adding new strain to the U.S. electrical grid. In quarterly earnings [...]
By Eva Dou, washingtonpost.com, 4-25-24 The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 April 25 to put the internet back under “net neutrality” regulation, reprising Obama-era rules that prohibit service providers from discriminating against certain websites by throttling or blocking them. But there’s a key detail that remains to be worked out: how to define the [...]
By Ann E. Marimow and Cat Zakrzewski, washingtonpost.com, 3-18-24 The Supreme Court seemed prepared March 18 to reject a Republican-led effort to sharply limit the federal government from pressuring social media companies to remove harmful posts and misinformation from their platforms. A majority of justices from across the ideological spectrum expressed concern about hamstringing [...]
FOR RELEASE: March 15, 2024 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-506-8030 Vienna, Va., March 15, 2024 – The Media Institute’s initiative “The Madison Project: Free Speech and Press in American Democracy” has released a policy paper titled “Can Universities Coexist With Free Speech?” that examines the realities of free speech and the First [...]
By Daniel Frankel, NextTV, 3-14-24 By a 3-2 party-line vote, the Federal Communications Commission on March 14 approved a report and order that would require cable and satellite pay TV operators to publish in their advertising and on customer bills the actual total price of their video service, so-called junk fees included. The FCC’s [...]
By Cristiano Lima-Strong, washingtonpost.com, 3-13-24 The House overwhelmingly passed a measure March 13 to force TikTok to split from its parent company or face a national ban, a lightning offensive that materialized abruptly after years of unsuccessful negotiations over the platform’s fate. The legislation, approved 352 to 65 with 1 voting present, is a [...]
FOR RELEASE: February 19, 2024 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-506-8030 Vienna, Va., February 19, 2024 – The Media Institute has announced the charter members of the Steering Committee for The Madison Project: Free Speech and Press in American Democracy. This is the Institute’s major new initiative that will assess threats and [...]
By Cristiano Lima-Strong, washingtonpost.com, 2-15-24 After months of negotiations, senators announced Feb. 15 that a sprawling bill to expand protections for children online had secured more than 60 backers, clearing a path to passage for what would be the most significant congressional attempt in decades to regulate tech companies. The Kids Online Safety Act, [...]
By Gerrit De Vynck, washingtonpost.com, 2-13-24 Leading artificial intelligence companies are planning to sign an “accord” committing to developing tech to identify, label, and control AI-generated images, videos, and audio recordings that aim to deceive voters ahead of crucial elections in multiple countries this year. The agreement, developed by Google, Microsoft, and Meta, as [...]