Recommendation algorithms potentially amplifying extremist content has become a policy concern in recent years. We conduct a novel empirical experiment on three platforms (YouTube, Reddit, and Gab) to test this phenomenon. We find that YouTube’s “Recommended for you” system does promote extreme content. We synthesise the findings into the policy debate and argue that co-regulation may provide some solutions.
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Black box algorithms and the rights of individuals: no easy solution to the “explainability” problem
The design of modern machine learning systems should take into account not only their effectiveness in solving a given problem, but also their impact on the rights of individuals. Implementing this goal may involve applying technical solutions proven in the IT industry, such as event logs or certification frameworks.
The CJEU judgements in the ‘Uber’ and ‘Airbnb’ cases may help to determine whether platform operators bear liability towards platform customers and on what grounds.
This article seeks to establish a more desirable paradigm for addressing disinformation online, by leveraging the theories of financial services regulation.
TikTok is at the centre of a geopolitical contest between the US and China. What can this platform controversy tell us about the future distribution of power in the digital environment?
A DAO is a blockchain-based system that enables people to coordinate and govern themselves mediated by a set of self-executing rules deployed on a public blockchain, and whose governance is decentralised (i.e., independent from central control).
Blockchain governance can be regarded as the integration of norms and culture, the laws and the code, the people and the institutions that facilitate coordination and together determine a given organisation.
Cryptoeconomics describes an interdisciplinary, emergent and experimental field that draws on ideas and concepts from economics, game theory and related disciplines in the design of peer-to-peer cryptographic systems.
How to provide society with legal protection against the harm caused by AI? Considerations against the background of tort liability in Polish and European law
This article formulates a list of permitted and forbidden rationales for the rankings of search results within app stores.