Mozilla Fellowship and Awards News and Updates
Looking to learn more about or engage with Mozilla Fellows and Awardees around the world? Stay up-to-date with regular updates about these leaders and their work by reviewing the current and upcoming news and announcements below.
Mitigating effects of COVID-19
News from fellows and awardees
- Fellow Oleg Zhilin featured in COVID-19: Social media users more likely to believe false information in McGill Newsroom
News from fellowship partner organizations
- Launch of AlgorithmWatch’s new report on 'Automated Decision-Making Systems in the COVID-19 Pandemic'
- Digital Freedom Fund reopened applications for its COVID-19 Litigation Fund: Here We Go Again: Our COVID-19 Litigation Fund Takes Two
AI and internet health
News from fellows and awardees
- Wanda: The AI Assistant from the Dark Side featuring awardee Joe Hall in the AT&T Conference Blog
- Facebook may proactively censor content to protect itself from legal or regulatory action featuring fellow Divij Joshi in Medianama
- How to escape your social media bubble before the election featuring awardee Tomo Kihara in Mashable
- Fellow Daniel Leufer’s recent launch of AIMyths.org continues to gain worldwide attention: What's happening from AI misconceptions-what to think about now (ZDNet Japan), The Guardian’s GPT-3-generated article is everything wrong with AI media hype (The Next Web), Guardian touts op-ed on why AI takeover won’t happen as ‘written by robot,’ but tech-heads smell a human behind the trick (RT), When The Guardian gets an AI to write an editorial (PresseCitron), "The Guardian" entrusts the writing of an editorial to an artificial intelligence (20Minutes), Artificial intelligence is writing an article - that's the result (Watson)
- Watch this deepfake of President Nixon mourning a failed Apollo 11 mission featuring awardee Halsey Bergund
- Accused of elitism, exclusion, NLSIU Bengaluru eases technical requirements for online admission test featuring fellow Divij Joshi in Medianama
- Speech tech and Common Voice at Mozilla featuring fellows Remy Muhire, Josh Meyer in Practical AI Podcast
- Meet this Year’s WIRED25: People Who Are Making Things Better featuring former fellow Matt Mitchell
- Fellow Camille François featured in “Moving Beyond Fears of the ‘Russian Playbook’”
- Fellows Guillaume Chaslot and Renee DiResta featured in “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix
- Fellow Sylvie Delacroix, Constructing a Mutually Supportive Interface between Ethics and Regulation
- Creative media awardee Deep Reckonings launched:
- Agents of Chaos: A Conversation with Director Alex Gibney and Camille François featuring fellow Camille Francois in Washington Post
- People’s notions about AI are terrible, an MIT study asks whether they can be helped featuring fellow Daniel Leufer in ZDNet
- Streaming services are the ‘Wild West’ for political ads, report finds featuring former fellow and current Mozilla researcher Becca Ricks in Yahoo Finance
- How the robots learned to write featuring fellow Daniel Leufer in Der Brutkasten
- After India and Australia Controversies, Facebook Changes Terms and Conditions Again featuring fellow Divij Joshi in The Citizen
- Von der Leyen charts Europe’s ‘digital decade’, evades platform economy challenge featuring fellow Daniel Leufer in Euractiv
- Ethical Tech Starts With Addressing Ethical Debt featuring awardee Casey Fisher in Wired
- Surveillance on the seas: Europe’s new Migration Pact featuring fellow Petra Molnar in Euractiv
- What's on YouTube Recommendations for Conspiracy Theorists and Climate Change Denials? "Their Tube" that enables you to "experience" filter bubbles featuring awardee Tomo Kihara in WIRED Japan
- AI & Advertising, A Consumer Perspective launched by fellow Harriet Kingaby
- Studying the impact of Internet of Things on Local Communities featuring fellow Sarah Kiden on We Don't Stream podcast
News from fellowship partner organizations
- Sandvine, Francisco Partners facing mounting pressure for accountability around censorship tools featuring Access Now
- Have questions about internet shutdowns? Kill Switch has answers by Access Now
- Down with (discriminating) systems by EDRi
- Recordings from the Deepfakery series by WITNESS and MIT Co Creation Studio up online now, like MANIPULATING MEMORIES: ARCHIVES, HISTORY AND DEEPFAKES
- ADL joins the board of a new nonprofit Raising Good Gamers EA, Microsoft and Epic Games join Raising Good Gamers' advisory board
- DFF opens applications for their November litigation retreat for litigators across Europe working on digital rights issues
- Derechos Digitales co-launches PubliElectoral, an app that allows the collection of information about electoral advertising on Facebook
Events (recent+upcoming)
- Fellowship host organizations WITNESS and MIT Co-Creation Studio co-produced a series of events - Deepfakery: satire, human rights, art and journalism in a time of infodemics . Many of the events featured Mozilla awardees and partners.
- Host organization Data Ethics in partnership with fellow Francesco Lapenta are holding European AI & Data Ethics Forum October 21-22. Learn more and sign up here.
- How to Design Trustworthy Tech featuring former fellow Clara Tsao on Sept 18
- Fellow Guillaume Chaslot and partners from host partner AlgorithmWatch spoke at the EU Disinfolab Virtual Conference 2020
Program Update
- Grant for the Web made a grant for Distributed Media Lab to incorporate Web Monetization into the open source AMP technology.The project is led by former fellow Dave Gehring to create a distributed funding model and serve as an additional and alternative revenue source to advertising for news media. A $2 Million Award to Reimagine the Economics of Online Journalism
- The Mozilla Creative Media Awards announced the newest cohort of judges in September Announcing Our 2021 Creative Media Award Judges
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