Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

Marco Rubio Writes Letter to Jack Dorsey over Twitter’s Chinese Propaganda

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey today demanding to know why the platform has failed to prevent the spread of Chinese communist propaganda across the service.

The Florida senator highlighted a doctored image spread by Zhao Lijian, a senior official in China’s propaganda arm, the information department. The doctored photo depicts an Australian soldier holding a knife to the throat of an Afghan child.

The tweet, posted on Nov 29, has accumulated nearly 15,000 retweets so far. It has not been taken down by Twitter, nor has Twitter applied any label to the image informing users that the picture has been manipulated.

“It defies belief that Twitter is unaware of this image, which falsely portrays an Australian soldier holding a bloody knife to the throat of a young, Afghan child, as Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison requested the image be taken down,” wrote Rubio.

The letter asks Twitter to answer several questions, including whether it has conducted a review of the tweet from Lijian, and if so, why no action has been taken as a result.

Rubio argued that Twitter has a “right as a private company,” to censor its services, but that its use of this right raises the question of whether Twitter deserves special legal protections under Section 230 of the communications decency act, a law that is critical to the business model of online platforms.

The Florida senator has previously argued it is “positive” that social media companies police “hate speech” from their users. He has never retracted or publicly reconsidered this statement. Rubio will face a Republican primary election in 2022.

Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Link: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/12/01/marco-rubio-writes-letter-to-jack-dorsey-over-twitters-chinese-propaganda/

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