The PlatGov Conference is back! What a joy! I have learned so much from this research community. Join us this year 👇 @robyncaplan.bsky.social @gorwa.ca @ameliehldt.bsky.social @naomiappelman.bsky.social @deeliu97.bsky.social

@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/...

Meticulous & chilling piece from Alex de Waal on the international moral disgrace that is the Gaza famine: ‘The level of urban starvation in Gaza has not been seen since the Dutch Hunger Winter and the siege of Leningrad’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Alex de Waal · How to Measure Famine

During the past year, as starvation started to appear in Gaza, Israel has clashed with the United Nations and aid...

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Many are fleeing major platforms for services like this one. I have an essay on two great books (by @paulgowder.bsky.social + @ntnsndr.in) that offer historically-rooted visions for democratic, social networks that we need to consider in the era of Bluesky and beyond... jacobin.com/2024/12/inte...

Can Democracy Survive Online?

The dream of a democratic web has turned into a nightmare of moderation crises, content mines, and billionaire overlords. Rebuilding digital spaces for meaningful participation in a post-X future will...

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hey look! big thanks to @justinhendrix.bsky.social for having me for this interview

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 2y ago

New podcast! Robert Gorwa is the author of the new book The Politics of Platform Regulation: How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation, out from Oxford University Press. The book advances a theoretical model for explaining the adoption of these different regulatory strategies.

‘Part of the concern I have with Bluesky presently is thus that people are gaining the impression that it's a decentralized system in ways that it is not’ Really helpful technical analysis from one of the lead ActivityPub devs dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec...

maybe it’s a good time to plug the work of @gorwa.ca and me on hugging face’s moderation practices… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Moderating model marketplaces: platform governance puzzles for AI intermediaries

The AI development community is increasingly making use of hosting intermediaries, such as Hugging Face, which provide easy access to user-uploaded models and training data. These model marketplace...

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I have a new report out w. @cendemtech.bsky.social looking at the latest in automated content moderation for the live-streaming context. Live video is hard to analyze, and - importantly - can’t be hashed and matched to existing infrastructures eg for CSAM detection. How are companies responding?

Center for Democracy & Technology@cdt.org · 2y ago

The report also delves into privacy and human rights implications of these tools. Transparency, bias, and unintended impacts on users must be carefully managed. Read more on how platforms can enhance trust & safety responsibly: cdt.org/insights/rea... #SafeOnline #ChildOnlineSafety

Hi all - freshly arrived to share a few new bits and bobs. The first is a blog post in the recently published CELE symposium on informal platform regulation / jawboning / government threats: observatoriolegislativocele.com/political-ca...

Political Capital and Informal Platform Governance - CELE

Political Capital and Informal Platform Governance It’s widely understood by close observers of platform governance and content moderation — but perhaps less widely mentioned in the interdisciplinary...

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