Twenty-five years ago, Congress passed a piece of legislation which made little if any splash. As policy areas such as content moderation, privacy, and online safety drifted into the mainstream conversation here in Washington, this legislation—Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act—came to be recognized for what it is: the legislation which created the modern […]
A few years ago, after decades of debate, Congress came closer than ever to finally passing a federal privacy law. The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal had laid bare the weakness of U.S. privacy laws and shown vividly how data can be reused and exploited for purposes we don’t expect or want. California had just enacted its […]
The following are remarks from Yamiche Alcindor during the 8th Annual Washington Women in Journalism Awards event: “Thank you so much Catherine for that amazing introduction. I got emotional and I thought maybe because we weren’t in person that I wouldn’t be so moved, but I’m almost near tears because it is surreal to me that I’m part […]