Marietje Schaake
Int. Policy Director 👾 Int. Policy Fellow 🕊 President 💻Columnist 🇪🇺 MEP 2009-2019
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R.I.P., G.O.P.
Nytimes.com 124d 12 tweets
The Party of Lincoln had a good run. Then came Mr. Trump.
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Marietje Schaake Wow, I have hardly read a more damning assessment >> R.I.P., G.O.P. ↘️ 121d
How Technology is Shaping Democracy and the 2020 Election
Coursera 122d 4 tweets
Offered by Stanford University. Democracy can only thrive with the participation of well-informed citizens. The 2020 U.S. presidential election will be historic for many reasons and all parties are leveraging the power of technology to both...
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Marietje Schaake 🚨 We are democratizing Stanford education: watch our Technology and the 2020 Election essentials here for free on Coursera 🚨 122d
Barack Obama Looks Back on His Toughest Fight
The New Yorker 122d 13 tweets
An excerpt from the President’s new memoir, “A Promised Land,” on what it took to make Obamacare a reality.
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Marietje Schaake ‘The quest for some form of universal health care in the United States dates back to 1912’ >> Barack Obama Looks Back on His Toughest Fight in ↘️ 122d
Practitioner Fellowship - Stanford PACS
Stanford PACS 162d 6 tweets
About the fellowship Applications for the 2021 Practitioner Fellowship will open on September 14, 2020 with a submission deadline of October 31, 2020. The Practitioner Fellowships at the Digital Civil Society Lab (DCSL) and the Center for...
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Marietje Schaake 🚨Check out this amazing Practitioner Fellowship opportunity with ⁦⁩ 🚨 Digital Civil Society Lab ↘️ 124d
HAI Issue Briefs
Stanford HAI 126d 1 tweets
HAI Issue Briefs
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Marietje Schaake In an effort to make as much information about Technology and the 2020 Election available to as many people as possible, and I publish short, accessible, issue briefs based on our class. Found here: thanks to and ↘️ 126d
The 2020 US Elections: News from the Cyber Policy Center
Mailchi.mp 127d 1 tweets
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Marietje Schaake Join our 💯 ⁦⁩ team for an election debrief with a ☕️ on the Westcoast (something stronger in Europe). November 4: ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ and ⁦⁩ ↘️ 127d
Subscribe to read | Financial Times
Ft.com 129d 1 tweets
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
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Marietje Schaake A public research cloud would stimulate innovation, great work by ⁦⁩ and John Etchemendy of ⁦⁩ ↘️ 129d
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Bloomberg.com 133d 3 tweets
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Marietje Schaake A top U.S. intelligence official said disinformation on social media is a “big vulnerability” and warned of an “existential threat” to democracy and elections ↘️ 132d
Subscribe to read | Financial Times
Ft.com 134d 2 tweets
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
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Marietje Schaake I have high expectations of antitrust, but it can not solve everything. Increasingly, technology harms democratic principles, and protection requires specific regulations, democracy is worth it. More in my latest for ↘️ 134d
Digital Trade Wars
FSI Stanford - Cyber.fsi.stanford.edu 134d 1 tweets
Please join the Cyber Policy Center, Wednesday, October 21, from 10 a.m. –11 a.m. pacific time, with host Marietje Schaake, International Policy Director of the Cyber Policy Center, in conversation with Dmitry Grozoubinski, founder of...
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Marietje Schaake Mark your calendars for our ⁦⁩ session on ‘Digital Trade Wars’ with all stars ⁦⁩ and ⁦⁩ > October 21, 10:00 PST/ 16:00 EST / 19:00 CET ↘️ 134d
The Lawless Realm
Foreign Affairs 135d 4 tweets
Governments must take a more concerted approach to taming cyberspace.
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Marietje Schaake New in ⁦⁩ my essay on how democratic governments can increase their role in shoring up accountability in the digital world ↘️ 135d
Facebook bans Holocaust denial, distortion posts
AP NEWS 136d 4 tweets
Facebook is banning posts that deny or distort the Holocaust and will start directing people to authoritative sources if they search for information about the Nazi genocide. Facebook CEO...
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Marietje Schaake It took 14 years but #stophateforprofit has finally broken the free speech mantra > Facebook bans Holocaust denial, distortion posts ↘️ 136d
Subscribe to read | Financial Times
Ft.com 136d 2 tweets
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
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Marietje Schaake Curious about the details, but I certainly hope scrutiny will not be limited to curbing excessive market power, but also addresses harms to the public interest and democracy > EU targets Big Tech with ‘hit list’ facing tougher rules ↘️ 136d
Technology and the 2020 Election
Stanford HAI 137d 5 tweets
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Marietje Schaake 🚨 Rob (⁦⁩) and I are doing an open to all event at ⁦⁩ based on our class ‘Technology and the 2020 Election’ Join us October 20th, 11:00 PST / 17:00 EST / 20:00 CET 🚨 137d
Cory Doctorow: ‘Technologists have failed to listen to non-technologists’
the Guardian 138d 10 tweets
The tech activist on his new sci-fi novel and why we mustn’t treat the moral downsides of social media as a necessary evil
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Marietje Schaake Always happy to read ⁦⁩ > one of the smartest, creative and most authentic thinkers on tech, politics and society I know: ‘Technologists have failed to listen to non-technologists’ ↘️ 137d
Trump vs. World, Round 2
POLITICO 139d 6 tweets
As president, he took a hammer to the international order, for better or worse. A special report on how a second term could truly reshape the globe.
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Marietje Schaake ‘Trump is the least trusted of all major world leaders; even among supporters of Europe’s far right parties, his approval never rises above 45 percent.’ writes quite the piece: Trump vs. World, Round 2 ↘️ 138d
E.U. Court Rules Against Hungary Law Targeting Soros-Funded University
Nytimes.com 141d 3 tweets
The ruling comes as the bloc pushes back against a growing authoritarianism by the government of Viktor Orban, but is unlikely to have much effect on the ground.
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Marietje Schaake Justice by the court cannot compensate for the lack of political action when it mattered > E.U. Court Rules Against Hungary Law Targeting Soros-Funded University ↘️ 141d
A Black Belgian Student Saw a White Fraternity as His Ticket. It Was His Death.
Matt Apuzzo, Steven Erlanger - Nytimes.com 144d 12 tweets
Sanda Dia’s death after an initiation ritual was regarded as a tragic accident. Newly released videos and photos have made it a symbol of growing intolerance.
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Marietje Schaake One of the most devastating stories I read all year, now also in English #JusticeForDia > A Black Belgian Student Saw a White Fraternity as His Ticket. It Was His Death ↘️ 144d
Election 2020 - CHM
CHM 156d 4 tweets
The 2020 Presidential election in the US comes at a critical juncture for technology, innovation, politics, and policy. From aeronautics to space exploration, and from semiconductors to the internet, history shows in no uncertain terms the...
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Marietje Schaake Computer History Museum ⁦⁩ hosts some of my favorite people to talk about critical election issues 💃🏼 ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ Judy Estrin and ⁦⁩ October 6 at 11:00 PST ↘️ 147d
How democracies can claim back power in the digital world
MIT Technology Review 149d 3 tweets
Should Twitter censor lies tweeted by the US president? Should YouTube take down covid-19 misinformation? Should Facebook do more against hate speech? Such questions, which crop up daily in media coverage, can make it seem as if the main...
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Marietje Schaake New essay in ⁦⁩ > Companies have taken many aspects of tech governance from democratically elected leaders. It will take an international effort to fight back ↘️ 149d