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.
Research Articles
In this article, we analyse attempts to regulate and control TikTok through the lens of foreign interference and technological sovereignty in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union.
This paper explores the economics of software vulnerabilities, evaluates three policy alternatives for vulnerability discovery and disclosure and argues that bug bounty programs, which leverage two-sided digital market platforms to connect organisations and ethical hackers, yield the highest effectiveness, legality and trustworthiness impacts.
News and Opinion Pieces
Can we fix access to platform data? Europe’s Digital Services Act and the long quest for platform accountability and transparency
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 Instagram, TikTok and YouTube have been accused of contributing to — in some cases even driving — a host of real-life harms with
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
According to recent studies , Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) output discriminates against women. On testing ChatGPT, terms such as “expert” and “integrity” were used to describe men, while women were associated with “beauty” or “delight”. This was the case while using the Large Language Model, Alpaca, a model developed by Stanford
This paper offers a business perspective on the EU data governance framework by exposing different elements playing a role in its implementation at the firm level.
This article provides a database of government responses to online disinformation and compares the amount and type of response over time and against the level of democratisation, press freedom, and gross domestic product.
Follow along as Members of the European Parliament navigate bias and discrimination in AI and explore their perspectives on regulatory measures, shedding light on the complexities of their understanding and paving the path towards informed policy development.
Drawing from 33 elite interviews, this study develops a capacity-based approach to analyse the emergent regulatory system for online safety in the UK.
This study examines the role of Google’s video search in three media diversity areas: format-type diversity, source diversity, and structural-social diversity.
This concept paper contextualises, defines, and systematises the concepts of trust and distrust (and their interrelations).
Digital organising refers to the collective purposeful alignment and distributed action fostered through digital technologies. The apparently opposing nature of digital organising draws attention to the need to unravel the concept theoretically.
This article delves into the diverse and complex nature of conceptualising misinformation as an object of research.