Claire Wardle knew her email account wasn’t private. Starting last fall, whenever the prominent misinformation researcher sent or received an email, she had to consider how the message might be swept up and publicly picked apart.
That’s because Wardle’s employer at the time, Brown University, had engaged a law firm to use AI software to sift through her correspondence, searching for messages from government agencies or tech companies at the request of a Republican-led investigation into the politically divisive field of misinformation research.
Read more at the Washington Post.