Our opinion article about "Research Opportunities and Challenges of the EU’s Digital Services Act" is out in CACM! cacm.acm.org/opinion/rese...

AI providers (including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and ~180 others) will watermark their AI-generated content, making it possible to detect content created by their AI systems (links in comments). This may impact how gen AI is used broadly. Would you like all AI-generated content to be labeled? 🤖🏷️

EU rules force Anthropic to expose AI writing worldwide

Anthropic will invisibly watermark all of Claude's text and file output from 2 August to meet EU AI Act transparency rules, with the marking applied globally, whether or not the user is anywhere near ...

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"They were girls who went to school to learn, with hopes and dreams for their future," Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai said. "Today, their lives were brutally cut short.” Read more: https://wapo.st/4r7izC7

The past year was remarkable for the SIMS Lab — our transatlantic research lab, spanning @ucddublin.bsky.social and @umassamherst.bsky.social. I'm grateful, proud, and energized for what’s next! 🖥️ Our new website: przemyslslaw.github.io/sims-lab 📸 Photo from my recent trip to Amherst 🧵 1/6

Open Social Web Series 🌐 Building on the AT Protocol means we don't have to build alone 🙌🏽 Mentions: @jonathanstray.bsky.social @graze.social @stream.place @gandersocial.bsky.social @transrights.northsky.social @skylight.social #OpenSocialWeb #SkylightSocial #BuildWithTori

Researchers such @randomwalker.bsky.social are calling for a more ambitious study of algorithmic fairness that bridges AI technology with social and legal components. Our research provides insights how to achieve that. More in our new Uncommon Good post! uncommongood.substack.com/p/to-achieve...

To achieve algorithmic fairness we need to bridge AI technology with society and legal systems

Researchers are calling for a more ambitious study of algorithmic fairness that bridges AI technology with social and legal components.

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Our upcoming Opinion article in the Communications of the ACM (CACM) discusses the hotly debated Digital Services Act (DSA) — online platform transparency and accountability regulation of the EU. 1/2 uncommongood.substack.com/publish/post...

Opportunities and Challenges for the Hotly Debated Digital Services Act

Our upcoming Opinion article in Communications of the ACM discusses the hotly debated Digital Services Act (DSA) — online platform transparency and accountability regulation introduced in the EU.

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Francesco Pierri@frapierri.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Happy to announce that our Opinion article about the hotly debated EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) has been accepted for publication in Communications of the ACM! Preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.14223

Happy to announce that our Opinion article about the hotly debated EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) has been accepted for publication in Communications of the ACM! Preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.14223

You mean I can't just make up people instead of studying people? www.science.org/content/arti...

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds

Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

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If you're interested in pursuing a PhD in #AI and/or #DataScience with me and/or my colleagues as your supervisors, apply for this fully-funded PhD scholarship at UCD School of Computer Science!

UCD School of Computer Science@ucdcs.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Full-time, fully funded #Phd #scholarships Candidates can choose from a vast range of research projects in #AI, #Network Technologies, #Security, #Quantum Computing, #HCI, and many more. For the full list of projects, descriptions, and how to apply, check the link www.ucd.ie/cs/phdvacanc...

I'm honored to join UCD Center for Digital Policy in the times when digital transparency and policy matter more than ever. 🇪🇺🇺🇸 (Just to clarify, I'm an Assistant Professor, hopefully soon an Associate Professor.)

UCD Centre for Digital Policy @ucddigitalpolicy.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We're delighted to welcome @przemyslslaw.bsky.social Associate Professor at UCD School of Computer Sciences, to the Centre! Przemek's research focuses on responsible AI and techno-social systems, and open world learning. Read more below digitalpolicy.ie/people/przem...

The EU’s €120M fine on Musk’s X is a first step, yet the platform remains a vector for a broader US agenda steering Europe to the right, says Alexandra Geese, an MEP from Germany. Oversight must match the scale of the threat to Europe’s sovereignty, she argues.

Europe Fined X, But It's Still Avoiding the Real Threat to Democracy | TechPolicy.Press

The European Commission's enforcement action is not sufficient to address the systemic risks posed by X, says MEP Alexandra Geese.

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🚨 New in Nature+Science!🚨 AI chatbots can shift voter attitudes on candidates & policies, often by 10+pp 🔹Exps in US Canada Poland & UK 🔹More “facts”→more persuasion (not psych tricks) 🔹Increasing persuasiveness reduces "fact" accuracy 🔹Right-leaning bots=more inaccurate

New paper in Science: In a platform-independent field experiment, we show that reranking content expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in social media feeds alters affective polarization. 🧵

Our first NeurIPS paper on fair representation learning with controllable guarantees. Fantastic research, and a result of extremely dedicated work by @jamesluoyh.bsky.social and our team! Well done! 🎊

Yuhong Luo@jamesluoyh.bsky.social · 10mo ago

It's common today to learn predictive user representations for multiple downstream tasks. But these representations can generate unfair predictions. So, in our recent #NeurIPS25 paper, we propose bounding the unfairness across all models for any task with fine-grained control.

The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org

Rebekah Tromble@rebekahtromble.bsky.social · last yr.

I spoke with Science about scholars—myself included—self-censoring. In my case, my team and I feared losing our NSF funding for Expert Voices Together (expertvoicestogether.org), a program, ironically, built to support researchers and journalists under attack. www.science.org/content/arti...

X's Algorithm Amplifies Political Extremes Prof. @przemyslslaw.bsky.social studied #X during Poland's 2025 election: 📊 Far-right & far-left posts stay in feeds longer 📉 Ruling party content down-ranked 4x 📈 80% feed content now from outside your network zenodo.org/records/1751... #AlgorithmicBias

In recent months, I've seen videos showing Israeli settlers harassing Palestinian women harvesting olives, killing baby goats of Palestinian families, and destroying olive trees on Palestinian lands. Why is this happening? Aren't there policemen and courts prosecuting these crimes?

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 10mo ago

A group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian industrial and agricultural facilities in Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank, causing large fires and injuring several people.

Our latest study of "Algorithmic Biases on X before the 2025 Polish Presidential Election" reveals that the default algorithmic feed of X showed mostly posts from right-wing parties and amplified political extremes, most likely due to the 2023 updates of X following its takeover (read on). 🧵1/7

We want neutrality ⚖️ and free speech 💬 in social media. But can we achieve that without transparency? I don't think so. So right-wing and left-wing policymakers need to talk and figure out how independent researchers can study platforms. An excellent piece for @science.org, with my inputs. 🧵1/2

Kai Kupferschmidt@kakape.bsky.social · 10mo ago

"Access to data by researchers is a crucial element of ensuring transparency and democratic accountability,” @lewan.bsky.social says. “The public is entitled to know what platforms and their algorithms are doing to the information landscape.” I wrote for @science.org about Meta, TikTok and the DSA 🧪

"Access to data by researchers is a crucial element of ensuring transparency and democratic accountability,” @lewan.bsky.social says. “The public is entitled to know what platforms and their algorithms are doing to the information landscape.” I wrote for @science.org about Meta, TikTok and the DSA 🧪

Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers’ access to data, European Commission rules

Data are needed to study how social media spreads misinformation and influences elections, scientists say

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GreenEarth is creating open source AI-driven recommender infrastructure for BlueSky. Type a prompt, see your feed change. We are here for the users, the builders, the dreamers. Join us. greenearthsocial.substack.com/p/introducin...

Introducing GreenEarth

We're building advanced open source algorithms for social media

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Last days every morning and evening I was passing by a church that Berliners nicknamed "the hollow tooth", badly damaged in 1943 and never rebuilt as a memorial of WWII, on my way to an excellent and timely workshop about platform transparency organized in Berlin by @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social.

Right-leaning podcaster Joe Rogan has chimed in on the suspension of late night host Jimmy Kimmel amid pressure from the Trump administration, saying the government should not determine what comedians say and that conservatives were “crazy” to support any such interference. https://cnn.it/4mvp3Ik

I'm voting for free speech with my wallet, and cancelling my Disney+ subscription.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

The design of social media platforms, including their AI systems and algorithms, likely contributes to the over-representation of extreme views (image @financialtimes.com). What platforms do we want? For example shall we balance diverse perspectives and societal stability? www.ft.com/content/9251...

Programmers who thought AI would make them 20% faster ended up being 19% slower metr.org/blog/2025-07...

Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky

Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.

wired.com

Brazil offers a lesson in democracy to an America that is becoming more corrupt, protectionist and authoritarian econ.st/4peBqLR

On the day when Israel killed four more Al Jazeera journalists, it's time we recognize that Israel killed in Gaza more journalists than ever died in any other war, including the World Wars. Source: attached research at Brown University. Let this sink in. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · last yr.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19