This opinion piece looks at resilience in science in the context of digital transformation.
This opinion piece is part of a 3-part miniseries advancing key reflections in disinformation governance. This article discusses the potential of new institutions for disinformation governance.
Truth, intention and harm: Conceptual challenges for disinformation-targeted governance
This opinion piece is part of a 3-part miniseries advancing key reflections in disinformation governance. This article discusses conceptual challenges for disinformation governance.
This opinion piece is part of a 3-part miniseries advancing key reflections in disinformation governance. This article discusses the role of empirical evidence.
In 2021, a message tracing regulation came into effect in India. This leaves the private communications of half a billion users of such services vulnerable to novel forms of abuse. The authors discuss the relevance to jurisdictions worldwide currently mulling over encryption regulation.
Findings from other countries indicate that women drop out of platform work twice as quickly as men. We showcase that Serbian women crowdworkers have the same survival rates as men as long as they have the same level of skills and education.
A Metaverse from a non-regulated tech environment might cause digital harm to vulnerable communities. The authors argue that addressing policy gaps with social work principles will lead to algorithmic equity in the virtual world.
Tackling news media underfunding: from copyright reform to cutting the (platform) middleman
Despite the European effort to solve the problem of press financing through copyright reform, some media outlets among other in Hungary, take their destiny in their own hands.
Transparency and (no) more in the Political Advertising Regulation
The Regulation on Political Advertising (RPA) represents the EU’s most significant effort to address concerns about political advertising’s democratic impact, but does it live up to the Commission’s hype ?
Identifying harm in manipulative artificial intelligence practices
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