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Poland votes in Europe’s first big pandemic-era election
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/world/europe/poland-election-coronavirus.html

Social Media Platforms Claim Moderation Will Reduce Harassment, Disinformation and Conspiracies. It Won't

https://time.com/5855733/social-media-platforms-claim-moderation-will-reduce-harassment-disinformation-and-conspiracies-it-wont/

Thousands of apps that we lovingly use on our smartphones have invisible trackers running in the background.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/technology/personaltech/fingerprinting-track-devices-what-to-do.html

The virus is threatening a food-sharing tradition: China’s government wants people to use a second set of serving chopsticks when picking up food from communal platters. State news agencies call it a “dining table revolution.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/world/asia/china-coronavirus-chopsticks.html

new Google safety measures to secure video classes from intrusions https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/03/hangouts-meet-edu-updates.html

AI chatbots are swooping in to take over lost call center jobs

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/14/1001716/ai-chatbots-take-call-center-jobs-during-coronavirus-pandemic/

Judge yourself.

Google unifies all of its messaging and communication apps into a single team - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/7/21250790/google-android-messaging-duo-phone-g-suite-javier-soltero-hangouts-chat

I Spent a Weekend Bingeing Airbnb’s Virtual Experiences. Was it Worth It?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/travel/airbnb-online-experiences-virus.html

Airbnb to cut 2,000 employees due to coronavirus pandemic. https://fortune.com/2020/05/05/airbnb-cuts-nearly-2000-employees-due-to-coronavirus-pandemic/

The transition to remote learning has been complex and fraught, especially in prisons.

https://slate.com/technology/2020/05/remote-learning-prisons.html

Google and Apple ban location tracking in their contact tracing apps

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/04/1001060/google-and-apple-lay-out-rules-for-contact-tracing-apps

Rural digital divide

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/technology/parking-lots-wifi-coronavirus.html

The Isle of Wight, off England’s southern coast, is starting a trial this week of a mobile app that will track the contacts of people infected with the coronavirus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/world/coronavirus-world-cases-deaths.html#link-2318d4d4

World leaders launched a campaign on Monday to raise at least $8 billion for research into coronavirus treatment and vaccines. The U.S. did not contribute, saying it was funding its own efforts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/world/europe/eu-coronavirus-vaccine.html

How to navigate the tradeoff between effective contract tracing and privacy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/28/contact-tracing-apps-can-help-stop-coronavirus-they-can-hurt-privacy/

AI Governance in 2019
A Year in Review: Observations from 50 Global Experts.

How AI was expected to be BEFORE #COVID19

#longreads

https://www.aigovernancereview.com/

A coronavirus mystery: Why some places fare better

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/world/asia/coronavirus-spread-where-why.html

French Muslims, unable to repatriate bodies to their countries of origin, face a shortage of burial grounds for their relatives.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/world/europe/france-muslims-burials-coronavirus.html