News and Research articles on Digital Services Act (DSA)

Digital Services Act (DSA)

Can we fix access to platform data? Europe’s Digital Services Act and the long quest for platform accountability and transparency

Svea Windwehr, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte/Society for Civil Rights
Joschka Selinger, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte/ Society for Civil Rights

PUBLISHED ON: 27 Mar 2024

From negative impacts on teenagers’ mental health to the abuse of data collection for political microtargeting and potentially abetting genocide against the Rohingya: in the past decade, online platforms like In

Volume 13, Issue 1

Regulating high-reach AI: On transparency directions in the Digital Services Act

Kasia Söderlund, Lund University
Emma Engström, Institute for Futures Studies
Kashyap Haresamudram, Lund University
Stefan Larsson, Lund University
Pontus Strimling, Institute for Futures Studies
PUBLISHED ON: 26 Mar 2024 DOI: 10.14763/2024.1.1746

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.

KEYWORDS: Digital Services Act (DSA), Social media, AI transparency, Content recommender systems, Artificial intelligence
Social media

Banning children’s social media use: A wave of symbolic regulations, but at what cost?

Pascal Schneiders, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Alicia Gilbert, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

PUBLISHED ON: 13 Mar 2024

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. Losing control over their own behaviour, they neglect other activities. A problem so serious that politicians need to intervene.

Digital Services Act (DSA)

P2B and the missing relational dimensions of the Digital Services Act

Ohad Somech, Bar-Ilan University
Maayan Perel, Netanya Academic College
Niva Elkin-Koren, Tel Aviv University

PUBLISHED ON: 23 Nov 2021

This op-ed is part of a series of opinion pieces edited by Amélie Heldt in the context of a workshop on the Digital Services Act Package hosted by the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society on 15 and 16 November 2021 in Berlin. This workshop brought together legal scholars and social scientists to get a better understanding of the DSA Package, in detail and on a meta level.