A belated but deeply felt celebration on a beautiful Oxford summer day🍾To the movie nights, book clubs, park walks, board games, travels, wine and cheese, laughter and tears — and above all, the gift of being surrounded by people who cherish honest, generous conversations.

While the US pushed TikTok into a sale over national security concerns, Vietnam fined the platform for misleading users and is tightening control over how it operates at home, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Lam Le.

How Vietnam and the US Differ in Using State Power to Regulate TikTok

Vietnam and the US are taking sharply different approaches to regulating TikTok, exposing tradeoffs between state power, user privacy, and national security.

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This figure (and the full article) tells you a lot about the grip the tech sector and its lobbyists have on UK government thinking and just how hard it is for civil society to get its voice heard. #onlinesafetyact 👇🏻 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

📌 December 1–2, 2025 | Online PlatGovNet2025 is around the corner! This year’s edition features a vibrant program of research and three inspiring keynote speakers who will explore the transitions, tensions, and new realities shaping platform governance: platgov.net/assets/site/...

Check out this interview 🙌🙌🙌🙌 !!

Oxford Internet Institute@oii.ox.ac.uk · 10mo ago

ICYMI: Listen to @manueltonneau.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk's interview with the SOEP podcast talking about his new research into hate speech, online platforms and disparities in content moderation across different European countries. Available here: bit.ly/4ntsiRU

We previously raised the need for more contextual data access around the moderation workforce in our submission to the DSA Article 40 public consultation. Here’s the full analysis that motivated our recommendation👇

Manuel Tonneau@manueltonneau.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Social media platforms operate globally, but do they allocate human moderation equitably across languages? Our new WP shows the answer is no: -Millions of users post in languages with zero moderators -Where mods exist, mod count relative to content volume varies widely across langs osf.io/amfws

🚣🚣 Only two weeks left to submit your abstract to this year’s PlatGovNet 🚣🚣

Diyi Liu@deeliu97.bsky.social · last yr.

Like, share, subscribe and submit to this new edition of PlatGovNet 🫶 It’s online with no registration fee. Abstract due September 2

Gosh, good thing there's no reason to think that the platform has any incentive to artificially increase the reach of this account or in any other way bend the rules www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

Exclusive: White House launches TikTok account with Trump saying 'I am your voice'

The White House launched an official TikTok account on Tuesday, taking advantage of the short video app's more than 170 million U.S. users to spread the messages of President Donald Trump.

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🏆 Thrilled to share that our HateDay paper has received an Outstanding Paper Award at #ACL2025 Big thanks to my wonderful co-authors: @deeliu97.bsky.social, Niyati, @computermacgyver.bsky.social, Sam, Victor, and @paul-rottger.bsky.social! Thread 👇and data avail at huggingface.co/datasets/man...

Manuel Tonneau@manueltonneau.bsky.social · 2y ago

Can we detect #hatespeech at scale on social media? To answer this, we introduce 🤬HateDay🗓️, a global hate speech dataset representative of a day on Twitter. The answer: not really! Detection perf is low and overestimated by traditional eval methods arxiv.org/abs/2411.15462 🧵

Like, share, subscribe and submit to this new edition of PlatGovNet 🫶 It’s online with no registration fee. Abstract due September 2

@rasmuskleis.bsky.social · last yr.

Working on platform governance? Join for PlatGovNet 2025 Free online conference Dec 1-2 Extended abstracts (800-1000 words) due Sep 2 Amazing community, opportunity to share work, get feedback, meet others working in this area. Glad to be part of organizing it Details: platgov.net/conferences/...

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Oxford Internet Institute@oii.ox.ac.uk · last yr.

New doctor! Congratulations to @deeliu97.bsky.social on passing her viva today! Her thesis is titled ‘Content Moderation, Platform Governance, and Legitimacy: TikTok in South and Southeast Asia’. Assessors: Vicki Nash and Jing Zeng. Supervisors: Ralph Schroeder and Reuben Binns.

BBC News - WhatsApp backs Apple in its legal row with the UK over user data - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

WhatsApp backs Apple in its legal row with the UK over user data

The messaging app says the UK government's demands over data access could set a

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Sadly I’m going to miss the #ICA25, but really honoured to be listed as one of the top student papers of @ica-clp.bsky.social (!) Definitely check out the other presentations of the session if you're around. My slides are also live now: doi.org/10.1177/2056...

It was a really fun conversation and thanks again for hosting me!

MilaNLP Lab@milanlp.bsky.social · last yr.

🎓For today's lab seminar, it was a pleasure to have @deeliu97.bsky.social presenting "Perceived Legitimacy in Borderline Content Moderation: The Impact of Moderation Source, Procedural Contestability, and Outcome Alignment" #NLProc

SCOOP: More than 300 FTC blogs published under FTC Chair Lina Khan disappeared this morning. They included posts critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI. www.wired.com/story/federa...

FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies

Business-guidance content published during the Biden administration has been removed from the Federal Trade Commission website.

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🎙️TikTok Special 02 out! As digital infrastructures become battlegrounds for geopolitics, it’s crucial to go beyond TikTok and navigate the complexities in the digital age. Join us with @deeliu97.bsky.social to uncover the power dynamics shaping global digital politics. matters.town/a/lnqsg5xc3e...

Special 02 Pt.1|Beyond TikTok Ban: States, Corporations, and Individuals in Global Digital Politics - Overreactology (@overreactology)

English transcript of the 2nd episode of the TikTok special (Part 1). Original soundtrack in Mandarin Chinese: 1:05:48.

matters.town

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

Registration open and Call for Abstracts, Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies workshop. University of Oxford, March 25-26. www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

OII | Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop

This workshop aims to facilitate dialogues between UK scholars and approaches from the Global South in the field of Internet and Data Studies.

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New blog! @oiioxford.bsky.social doctoral researchers @deeliu97.bsky.social, @manueltonneau.bsky.social and Juliette Zaccour propose a series of recommendations for effective data access and data governance in light of the EU’s Digital Service Act. Read the full article: bit.ly/49DJyhn

Wrapping up the year with a Behind the Scenes seminar hosted by @pgmt.bsky.social Perfect timing to share some reflections on my thesis methodology and hear critique/thoughts from the community. Would love to have you there!

Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT)@pgmt.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣Online Talk Series (14): Diyi Liu - “The Legitimacy of Platformized Speech Governance: A Mixed-Methods Case Study Approach” 🗓️December 17, 2024 🕛3-4 pm (CET) 📍Online Event @deeliu97.bsky.social will present in the 14th session of "Behind The Scenes". 👉Info & Registration: lnkd.in/gXttfycT

Using my first post here to proudly share impressive work led by @manueltonneau.bsky.social! Based on a representative TwitterDay dataset, this study has important implications for balancing costs and necessity of hate speech moderation at scale. Do check out the thread, the paper & HateDay:

Manuel Tonneau@manueltonneau.bsky.social · 2y ago

Can we detect #hatespeech at scale on social media? To answer this, we introduce 🤬HateDay🗓️, a global hate speech dataset representative of a day on Twitter. The answer: not really! Detection perf is low and overestimated by traditional eval methods arxiv.org/abs/2411.15462 🧵