Alex Rochefort is a Policy Fellow at Ranking Digital Rights and a PhD candidate in the Division of Emerging Media Studies at Boston University’s College of Communication. His research focuses on platform governance, communication policy, and content moderation. Alex’s work incorporates perspectives from the public policy field to explain the development of public and private responses to issues in the digital media environment.
RDR is proud to support Accountable Tech’s rulemaking petition to ban surveillance advertising. After extensive research, stakeholder consultations, and policy analysis, our team has concluded that the surveillance advertising business model poses a fundamental threat to civil and human rights, liberal democracy, and the public
Written and compiled by Alex Rochefort, Zak Rogoff, and RDR staff. The revelations of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, published in SEC filings and in the Wall Street Journal’s “Facebook Files” series, have brought forth irrefutable evidence that Facebook has repeatedly misled or lied to the
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