Students will work with Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen's Duty of Care project
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tech & Public Policy program at Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy is pleased to announce its inaugural class of Tech & Public Policy Fellows: Ryan Arazi (MPP'23), Rachel Bogdan (MPP'24), Jeremiah Ong (MPP'24) and Morgan Zimmerman (MS-DSPP'23).
Seeded by a $25M gift from Project Liberty's McCourt Institute, which was established in 2021 by the McCourt School's foundational donor and Project Liberty's founder, Frank McCourt, the Tech & Public Policy Fellows program will support the work of social media safety advocate and Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen and her organization Beyond the Screen to advance its Duty of Care project. Duty of Care is an open-source effort aimed at holding social networking platforms accountable for harmful practices and reducing social media's negative impacts. It was launched in collaboration with Project Liberty, a groundbreaking initiative to transform how the internet works, create a more equitable digital economy and develop a new civic architecture for the digital world.
"The Tech & Public Policy program is thrilled to welcome these four students as inaugural Fellows," said Tech & Public Policy program Director Michelle DeMooy. "We are grateful to our partners at Project Liberty's McCourt Institute, and to Frances, for the opportunity to contribute to this important work, and...
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