Monday’s Must Read List

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-

1. MEPs call for European AI rules to ban biometric surveillance in public (TechCrunch)
2. Who Would Volunteer to Fact-Check Twitter? (The Atlantic)
3. Twitter begins analyzing harmful impacts of its algorithms (The Verge)
4. Can CLUBHOUSE Keep the Party Going? (The Verge)
5. The $1 billion Russian cyber company that the US says hacks for Moscow (MIT Technology Review)
6. How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower’s account (The Guardian)
7. Restoring Public Trust In Technology And Media Is Infrastructure Investment (Forbes)
8. Disruptive Innovation 2021: These 15 big ideas are most likely to change the world (ZDnet)
9. Apple launches $200 million forestry fund it says will bring financial return for investors (MarketWatch)
10. Europe seeks to limit use of AI in society (BBC News)

Some light reading- The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, Jacques Lacan