The "AI and COVID-19 Digital Disinformation Initiative" is carried out in partnership with the OSCE's Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media's #SAIFE project.
John Villasenor is a nonresident senior fellow in Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings. He is also a professor of electrical engineering, law, public policy, and management at UCLA, as well as co-director of the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law, and Policy. Villasenor’s work considers the technology, policy, and legal issues arising from key technology trends including the growth of artificial intelligence, the increasing complexity and interdependence of today’s networks and systems, and continued advances in computing and communications.
He has written for the Atlantic, Billboard, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Fast Company, Forbes, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Scientific American, Slate, and the Washington Post, and for many academic journals. Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, Villasenor was with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he developed methods of imaging the earth from space. He holds a B.S. from the University of Virginia and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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The Coronavirus Diaries: journalist Nick Aspinwall on the response in Taiwan and The Phillipines
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The Coronavirus Diaries: Paige Morrow (Article19) on holding elections during a pandemic
The Coronavirus Diaries - Journalist Geoffrey York on the response to COVID19 in South Africa and the response to misinformation
The Coronavirus Diaries: Serge Stroobants (IEP) on terrorist groups amid the pandemic, the effects of global threats, and positive peace
Coronavirus Diaries: Interview with Rema Jamous Imseis, UNHCR Representative to Canada.
The Coronavirus Diaries: Journalist Terry Glavin on the Chinese Communist Party's narrative
The Coronavirus Diaries: Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad speaks about the response of the Iranian political and religious leadership
The Coronavirus Diaries: Andrei Serbin Pont (CRIES) on the impact of the pandemic in South America.
The Corononavirus Diaries: Prof. Florian Bieber on the impact of the virus on nationalism in Europe
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The Coronavirus Diaries - Elise Thomas (ASPI) on China's attempts to reshape the Coronavirus narrative and the role conspiracy media
The Coronavirus Diaries - Andrew Stroehlein (Human Rights Watch) on the coronavirus Hungary and authoritarian political movements in Europe
The Coronavirus Diaries - David Mulroney, Canada's former ambassador to China
The Coronavirus Diaries - Allie Funk (Freedom House) on the impact of the coronavirus on basic freedoms and democracy across the globe
The Coronavirus Diaries - Muyi Xiao (New York Times) on the rise coronavirus-related racism and China's coronavirus narrative
The Coronavirus Diaries - Sheldon Fernandez (Darwin AI) on the use of AI to fight coronavirus disinformation
The Coronavirus Diaries: Jakub Kalenský on Russian disinformation campaigns
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