Opinion: A Civic Trust Could Monitor Social Media Content Better Than Congress or the Supreme Court
The Messenger published an op-ed from John J. Farmer, Jr., Director of the Miller Center on Policing and Community Resilience.
"Those attempting, in light of last week’s decision to hear the case, to anticipate how the Supreme Court may decide the scope of social media platforms’ obligation to moderate content would do well to consider the following colloquy from last February’s oral argument in Gonzalez v. Google. What’s the difference, Justice Clarence Thomas wanted to know, between someone who is interested in rice pilaf, who is steered to sites favoring rice pilaf recipes, and someone interested in terrorism, who is steered to ISIS sites? When counsel answered that there is no difference, Justice Thomas responded, “Then doesn’t that mean that the algorithm is neutral?”
In race to replace NJ's Senator Menendez, first lady Tammy Murphy would have advantages few women share
WNYC's Gothamist spoke with Debbie Walsh, Director of the Center for American Women and Politics on New Jersey First Lady Tammy Murphy's potential Senate campaign
“We have a pipeline problem in the state,” said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. “You see when you really break it down by gender and then also by gender and race, how underrepresented women are and how overrepresented white men are in all elective office.”
Kentucky governor battles state's rightward shift
Pluribus News spoke with Dr. Kristoffer Shields, Director of the Eagleton Center on the American Governor, on the advantages of being an incumbent governor.
“It’s a really big advantage to be an incumbent as a governor,” said Kristoffer Shields, director of the Center on the American Governor at Rutgers University. “You don’t have to worry about name recognition. … People have some comfort with you.”
Women donors are underrepresented in fundraising for state elections
The 19th newsletter highlighted the Center for American Women and Politics latest Women, Money, and Politics report, The Donor Gap: Raising Women's Political Voices.
"Women donors put forward a third or less of all political contributions in state-level elections between 2019 and 2022, the report found, despite the fact that women made up just under half of donors for all state races in that time period. In races for governor, for example, women — who accounted for 47 percent of all donors — gave just 33 percent of all contributions." | 
