Focusing on recommender systems used by dominant social media platforms as an example of high-reach AI, this study explores the directionality of transparency provisions introduced by the Digital Services Act and highlights the pivotal role of oversight authorities in addressing risks posed by high-reach AI technologies.
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Recent public discourse on social media sounds somewhat dystopian: Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and co. knowingly use manipulative design features and algorithms to keep users hooked. Children and young people are particularly susceptible to this — staring at their screen for countless hours, they become addicted, depressed, and plagued by anxiety
Advertisers’ concerns about “brand safety” and “brand suitability” are an underappreciated influence on social media platforms’ content governance, with concerning implications for social equality and the freedom of public debate online.
Is public concern for political microtargeting addressed on empirical grounds?
This article examines epistemic uncertainty about the nature and extent of fake accounts on social media and the implications therein.
A proposal, informed by feminist theory, for a policy agenda of “governable spaces” across the domains of social media, gig economies, and network infrastructure.
Virtual reality—a central technology to Facebook’s metaverse ambitions—is a powerful digital sensor. But whose interests does it serve?
This article considers the unique challenges of platform policies aimed at the off-platform misbehaviour of users through the case of Twitch.
The spread of hate speech and disinformation on social media has contributed to inflaming conflicts and mass atrocities as seen in Myanmar. Is the doctrine of information intervention a solution to escalations of violence?
This op-ed looks at Australia and asks whether Europeans need to worry about social media blocking access to news content.
