The paradox of regulation that seeks to determine unlawful manipulation based on design elements and interest misalignment alone.

As metaverse rhetoric accelerates, the definitions shaping governance policy are severing it from decades of empirical evidence on how virtual communities actually govern themselves.

Digital sovereignty is vague, or even fragmented, but that is not a defect to be disciplined.

The EU’s Chat Control proposal conflates two fundamentally different problems; the law should separate two forms of detection and require a credible validation plan before novel-material detection is deployed.

Under-16 social media bans may seem like a reasonable response that forestalls consequences, but, in ways we have yet to appreciate, they may prove a strategic blunder, serving the best interests of the very tech companies they seek to counter.

As the Gulf war pushes data embassies into the mainstream, the Global South risks importing a familiar pattern of dependencies repackaged as sovereignty.

Regulation is moving platforms. But is it moving them in ways that actually protect children? A two-year comparison of regulatory monitoring data suggests the answer is more complicated than it looks.

The next frontier of South-South cooperation may not be trade agreements or diplomatic summits; instead, it may be what governments choose to buy, and on whose terms.

Europe has built the most sophisticated democratic response to internet fragmentation and is now dismantling it under pressure from the platforms it was designed to constrain.

This opinion piece critically examines the EU’s strategy to build AI infrastructure through the announced AI Gigafactories as alternatives to hyperscalers and leading means to strengthen its digital sovereignty.