Masters of Privacy

Lukasz Olejnik: Propaganda, misinformation, the DSA, Section 230, and the US elections


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Dr Lukasz Olejnik (@lukOlejnik), LL.M, is an independent cybersecurity, privacy and data protection researcher and consultant. Senior Visiting Research Fellow of the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. He holds a Computer Science PhD at INRIA (French Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology), and LL.M. from University of Edinburgh. He worked at CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research), and was a research associate at University College London. He was associated with Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy, and Oxford's Centre for Technology and Global Affairs. He was a member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group. Former cyberwarfare advisor at the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, where he worked on the humanitarian consequences of cyber operations. Author of scientific articles, op-eds, analyses, and books Philosophy of Cybersecurity, and “Propaganda”. He contributes public commentary to international media.

References:

  • Full interview transcript (on Medium)
  • Propaganda, by Lukasz Olejnik
  • Lukasz Olejnik on Cyber, Privacy and Tech Policy Critique (Newsletter)
  • Lukasz Olejnik on Mastodon
  • Lukasz Olejnik on X
  • EU Digital Services Act (DSA) 
  • Section 230 (“Protection for private blocking and screening of offensive material“)  of the Communications Decency Act (1996)
  • Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe Inc. and Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co. as precursors to Section 230
  • Doppelganger in action: Sanctions for Russian disinformation linked to Kate rumours
  • EU takes shot at Musk over Trump interview — and EU takes shot at Musk over Trump interview — and misses (Politico)
  • The story of Pavel Rubtsov (“Journalist or Russian spy? The strange case of Pablo González”), The Guardian
  • Silicon Valley, The New Lobbying Monster (mentioning Chris Lehane’s campaigns), The New Yorker
  • Financial Times: Clip purporting to show a Haitian voting in Georgia is among ‘Moscow’s broader efforts’ to sway the race
  • “Pseudo-media”:  Spain proposes tightening rules on media to tackle fake news

 



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