Looking at the nature of AI technology and the contents of the EU AI Act, the external impact of the Act is better understood in terms of experimentalist governance than in terms of the much-cited ‘Brussels effect’.
Research articles on GOVERNANCE
This paper examines how governmental decision-making was undertaken in the aftermath of four key cybersecurity crises affecting Estonian e-governance, with the objective of bolstering future cybersecurity.
This article explores TikTok's platform governance of monetisation by systematically examining the classification of influencers and monetisation practices in TikTok’s platform documentation.
The bankrupt US company Celsius pursues aggressive clawbacks against European customers – can EU consumer laws defeat this cross-border legal attack?
This study examines experts' role within the EU's Code of Practice on Disinformation, highlighting challenges in co-regulatory processes and platform governance.
Decentralising platform regulation: How does the design of regulatory intermediaries in the EU’s DSA and Brazil’s proposed platform regulation bill impact content moderation?
This article compares the Stop Hate for Profit campaign and the Global Alliance for Responsible Media to evaluate efforts that leverage advertisers’ financial power to challenge platform content moderation.
This article analyses the role that informational architectures and infrastructures in federated social media platforms play in content moderation processes.
Despite their active and growing involvement in monitoring the implementation of the “Code of Conduct on countering illegal hate speech online”, civil society organisations have been barred from translating this expanded role into enhanced influence at the policy-making level.
Trusted flaggers under the DSA have sparked the public debate; this article explains how we can safeguard freedom of expression and enable trusted flaggers to effectively target illegal content.