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At this year’s Tech Prom, CDT is presented its Digital Visionary Award to Teen Vogue. Why Teen Vogue, you ask? If you haven’t read a copy or visited the website recently – you should – and then you’ll certainly know why.
Chatting with Marie and Phill
We are honored Teen Vogue for being a strong, fresh voice for democracy, diversity, and civic engagement. We are recognized them for their role in helping energize a new generation of globally focused, human-rights minded leaders. And we celebrated them as a pillar of free speech online, as they use a wide array of digital platforms to reach their readers. They’re awesome.
Teen Vogue’s Digital Editorial Director Phillip Picardi and Creative Director Marie Suter, who received the award on behalf of Teen Vogue at Tech Prom, joined Tech Talk to talk about the publication’s evolution. They are inspiring and great guests – you’ll definitely enjoy this episode!
Not All Guardrails Are Created Equal: Comparing Content Safety and Copyright Filtering
As courts and policymakers work through questions about chatbot liability, they should be wary of analogies that flatten meaningful technical differences. Copyright filtering and safety intervention share real challenges around ambiguity and evasion, but they diverge in what each control must assess, how each manifests over the course of a conversation, and how much can be verified from the outside.
Op-Ed: France’s Constitutional Council Ruling Tests the Limits of Social Media Bans
Read our analysis the legal and policy significance of the Constitutional Council’s decision on ongoing social media age restriction and age assurance debates ahead of the most-anticipated EU-wide approach on child online safety due by December 2026.
The brief explains that Section 230’s liability protections are essential to enable free expression online and they extend to the use of automated systems to engage to rank and order content as part of traditional publishing activities.
