News and Research articles on Digital Service Act

From brand safety to suitability: advertisers in platform governance

Rachel Griffin, Paris Institute of Political Studies
PUBLISHED ON: 11 Jul 2023 DOI: 10.14763/2023.3.1716

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.

Regulation of news recommenders in the Digital Services Act: empowering David against the Very Large Online Goliath

Natali Helberger, University of Amsterdam
Max van Drunen, University of Amsterdam
Sanne Vrijenhoek, University of Amsterdam
Judith Möller, University of Hamburg – Leibniz Institute for Media Research (HBI)

PUBLISHED ON: 26 Feb 2021

​A much anticipated provision in the European Commission’s proposal for a Digital Service Act is Art. 29 DSA - the provision about recommendation algorithms. In this brief commentary we reflect on the background, purpose and potential of Art. 29 to address the effects of recommenders for users and society.