#TwitterSpace : Elon Musk buying Twitter: what does it mean for online hate?

from Threatscape - Mapping global risks in a changing world · host migsinstitute

A Twitter Spaces conversation on the implications of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter for the spread of disinformation, hate speech and other online harms. Speakers: - Dr. Emma L. Briant, British scholar and academic researcher on media, contemporary propaganda, surveillance and information warfare, and Visiting Research Associate in Human Rights, Bard College. - David Troy, researcher, technologist, and investor interested in hybrid warfare and threats to democracy, and Fellow at Future Frontlines at New America. - Peter MacLeod, co-founder and principal of Mass LBP, and leading expert in public engagement and deliberative democracy. - Yaqiu Wang, Senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch, working on issues including internet censorship, freedom of expression, protection of civil society and human rights defenders, and women’s rights. - Prof. Taylor Owen, Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethic and Communications, and the founding director of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University. The discussion is moderated by MIGS' Project Coordinator Marie Lamensch and Project Leader Lauren Salim.

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A Twitter Spaces conversation on the implications of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter for the spread of disinformation, hate speech and other online harms. Speakers: - Dr. Emma L. Briant, British scholar and academic researcher on media, contemporary propaganda, surveillance and information warfare, and Visiting Research Associate in Human Rights, Bard College. - David Troy, researcher, technologist, and investor interested in hybrid warfare and threats to democracy, and Fellow at Future Frontlines at New America. - Peter MacLeod, co-founder and principal of Mass LBP, and leading expert in public engagement and deliberative democracy. - Yaqiu Wang, Senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch, working on issues including internet censorship, freedom of expression, protection of civil society and human rights defenders, and women’s rights.- Prof. Taylor Owen, Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethic and Communications, and the founding director of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University. The discussion is moderated by MIGS' Project Coordinator Marie Lamensch and Project Leader Lauren Salim.