# Laura Edelson

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The Locknet: How China Controls its Internet

In this episode of Pekingology, CSIS Senior Fellow Henrietta Levin is joined by Jessica Batke, Senior Editor for Investigations at ChinaFile, and Laura Edelson, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University. They discuss Jessica and Laura's new report "The Locknet: How China Co…

Lawfare Daily: How Technologists Can Help Regulators with Erie Meyer and Laura Edelson

Erie Meyer, Senior Fellow at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy and Senior Fellow at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator, and Laura Edelson, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University, who are coauthors of the recent toolkit, “Working with Technologists: Re…

Evaluating Instagram's Promises to Protect Teens

Instagram has spent years making promises about how it intends to protect minors on its platform. To explore its past shortcomings—and the questions lawmakers and regulators should be asking—I spoke with two of the authors of a new report that offers a comprehensive assessment of Instagram’s record…

Who Knows? Independent Researchers in a Platform Era w/ Brandi Geurkink

Imagine doing tech research… but from outside the tech industry? What an idea… More like this: Nodestar: Turning Networks into Knowledge w/ Andrew Trask So much of tech research happens within the tech industry itself, because it requires data access, funding, and compute. But what the tech industr…

Lawfare Daily: How Technologists Can Help Regulators with Erie Meyer and Laura Edelson

Erie Meyer, Senior Fellow at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy and Senior Fellow at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator, and Laura Edelson, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University, who are coauthors of the recent toolkit, “Working with Technologists: Re…

Facebook Shuts Down Research On Itself

In October 2020, Facebook sent a cease and desist letter to two New York University researchers collecting data on the ads Facebook hosts on its platform, arguing that the researchers were breaching the company’s terms of service. The researchers disagreed and kept up with their work. On August 3, …

Is Facebook Scamming You?

Meta scam ads are out of control. In this episode of the Scammer Payback Podcast, we dig into Reuters-reviewed internal documents that allege Meta (Facebook and Instagram) makes serious money from scam ads. With expert insight from Laura Edelson (Cybersecurity for Democracy Lab) and Martin Wolf (Fi…

#17 Digital Markets Act-ually: Fixing Platforms One Rule at a Time w/ Dr. Filippo Lancieri

In this conversation, Filippo Lanceri discusses the evolving landscape of legal tech and digital enforcement, focusing on the differences between public and private enforcement in antitrust law, particularly in the context of the EU and US. He delves into the implications of the recent Meta case, t…

Ep 65: Social media safety features, and welcome Dany!

(Cover image: a very pleasant walk on the beach at Surfer’s Paradise, last month) It’s a great pleasure to welcome our new co-host, Dany Elachi. Dany is the founder of the Heads Up Alliance, and a father 5 who is passionate about giving children the best possible upbringing, with minimal screen eng…

Misinformation: What Should Our Tech Overlords Do?

After Joe Rogan was accused of spreading Covid-19 vaccine misinformation on his podcast, Spotify landed in the hot seat. People (including us!) wanted to know what the platform was doing to stop it. In this episode, we look into how tech platforms are fighting misinformation — and find out what act…