🥇If There’s One Story To Read Today The dark side of the internet The internet, despite all the benefits it has brought to society, has many shortcomings. There’s rampant misinformation, echo-chambers of hate speech, marketplaces for illegal goods and services, to name a few. But if there’s one issue that gets everyone's attention more than the others, and one issue that everyone wants to unanimously fight against, it’s the issue of non-consensual sexual content. And when it involves minors, the effort to curb such content is multiplied. Thanks to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), online platforms can now adopt a new tool to help take down such content based on what affected users themselves report. The good news is that Meta, PornHub, and OnlyFans have already adopted this tool. Now all that’s left is for other platforms to do the same, and for them to increase awareness that such a tool exists. In our report we cover what this tool is, how it works, how affected children can use it, and more. Read this 2-minute story here. Click here to subscribe to MediaNama Daily and receive the best of tech policy in your inbox. 🗓 Your Tech Policy Agenda Web Policy Learning: Impact and Policy Research Institute is conducting a 4-week online Introductory Certificate Course on ‘Fundamentals of Public Policy’ from March 3- 25 (every Fri & Sat). Register here. Health, Data, and AI: Christian Medical College, Vellore, is organizing a National Symposium on Health Data…
