Scaling Laws
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- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 173
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Coordinating Inauthentic Behavior With Facebook’s Head of Security Policy
This week on Arbiters of Truth, our podcast on our online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic bring you an episode they’ve wanted to record for a while: a conversation with Nathani…
Information Operations, Then and Now
This week on Arbiters of Truth, our podcast on our online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Camille François, the chief innovation officer at Graphika, about a new rep…
A TikTok Tick Tock
TikTok has rapidly become one of the most popular apps for teenagers across the world for dancing, lip-syncing and sharing details about their lives. But if you cast your mind back to last year—speci…
The Empire (Facebook) Strikes Back (at the Oversight Board’s Trump Decision)
If you’ve listened to this show, you've probably read a fair number of news stories—and maybe even listened to some podcast episodes—about the Facebook Oversight Board’s recent ruling on the platform…
The Arrival of International Human Rights Law in Content Moderation
Way back at the beginning of the Arbiters of Truth podcast series on our online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic invited David Kaye to talk about international human rights law …
The Christchurch Call, Two Years On
In March 2019, a shooter carried out two mass killings at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, livestreaming the first shooting on Facebook. Two months later, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arde…
The Disinformation Nextdoor
The Facebook Oversight Board Rules on Trump
The wait is over. Four months after Facebook indefinitely banned Donald Trump from its platform following the Capitol riot, the Facebook Oversight Board—the platform’s self-appointed quasi-court—has …
Israel’s 'Cyber Unit' and Extra-legal Content Take-downs
Odds are, you probably haven’t heard of the Israeli government’s “Cyber Unit,” but it’s worth paying attention to whether or not you live in Israel and the Palestinian territories. It’s an entity tha…
The Challenges of Audio Content Moderation
This week on Arbiters of Truth, the Lawfare Podcast’s miniseries on our online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic talked to Sean Li, who until recently was the head of Trust and S…
Twitter, Facial Recognition and the First Amendment
This week on Arbiters of Truth, the Lawfare Podcast’s miniseries on our online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Jameel Jaffer and Ramya Krishnan of the Knight First A…
The Truth About Conspiracy Theories
If you’re listening to this podcast, the odds are that you’ve heard a lot about QAnon recently—and you might even have read some alarming reporting about how belief in the conspiracy theory is on the…
Tech CEOs Head to the Hill, Again
This week on Arbiters of Truth, the Lawfare Podcast’s miniseries on our online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Issie Lapowsky, a senior reporter at the tech journali…
YouTube, We Have a Problem
This week on Arbiters of Truth, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic sat down with Brendan Nyhan to discuss the crucial platform that often seems to slip under the radar in discussions of mis- and disinfo…
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Section 230 Reform
Content Moderation and the First Amendment for Dummies
Emily Bell on Journalism in the Platform Era
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen on Australia, Facebook and the Future of Journalism
Chinmayi Arun on India and the Future of the Internet
Ben Smith on Gatekeepers in the Internet Age
On this episode of Arbiters of Truth, Lawfare’s miniseries on disinformation and misinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Ben Smith, media columnist for the New York Times and forme…