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Ellery Roberts Biddle

(She/Her)
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Covers:  tech, social movements, law, human rights
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Ellery Roberts Biddle’s Biography

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I am a journalist, researcher, and tech expert. I’ve written for Global Voices, The Guardian, The New York Times, Quartz, Slate, Tech Policy Press, and Americas Quarterly.

I am currently an editor with Coda Story. From 2019-2022, I ran editorial and research projects at Ranking Digital Rights, a program that evaluates big tech companies on human rights standards. From 2013-2019, I ran the Advox project at [Global Voices] (https://globalvoices.org), an international media organization of blogger…

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Outside the US, Elon Musk's vision of a rules-free Twitter is expected to unlock violence and civ...

Outside the US, Elon Musk's vision of a rules-free Twitter is expected to unlock violence and civ...

While protest movements have risen and fallen, and political parties spend untold resources promoting their a…

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State AGs say Google's ad business is violating antitrust law. What does that mean for the public...

State AGs say Google's ad business is violating antitrust law. What does that mean for the public...

A recently unsealed 2020 antitrust suit filed against Google by 16 state attorneys general plus the attorney …

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Follow the money: to rein in Big Tech, lawmakers are right to focus on business models

Follow the money: to rein in Big Tech, lawmakers are right to focus on business models

Facebook and Google have made broad-based commitments to protect human rights and the public interest, but on…

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How tech design is always political

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By Ellery Roberts Biddle
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Facebook has a long-maligned yet still active feature called “People You May Know.” It scours the network’s data troves, picks out the profiles of likely acquaintances, and suggests that you “friend” them. But not everyone you know is a friend. Anthropologist Dragana Kaurin told me this week about a strange encounter she had with it some years back. “I opened Facebook and I saw a face and a name I recognized. It was my first grade teacher,” she told me.
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How Big Tech let down Navalny

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By Ellery Roberts Biddle
| Coda Story Verified
As if the world needed another reminder of the brutality of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, last Friday we learned of the untimely death of Alexei Navalny. I don’t know if he ever used the term, but Navalny was what Chinese bloggers might have called a true “netizen” — a person who used the internet to live out democratic values and systems that didn’t exist in their country. Navalny’s work with the Anti-Corruption Foundation reached millions using major platforms like YouTube and LiveJournal.
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When AI brings ‘ugly things’ to democracy

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By Ellery Roberts Biddle
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