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Platforms overwhelmingly use automated content moderation, first DSA transparency reports show
November 6th 2023 was the first deadline for platforms categorised as “Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs)” by the EU to deliver their transparency reports. The EU’s new Digital Services Act (DSA) demands VLOPs to publish these twice a year, containing standardized information about the number of users and aggregated numbers of content moderation decisions taken…
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Social media governance discussion with three Georgian legal scholars
On 2 November 2023, at Haus der Wissenschaft, three guest speakers from Georgia participated in a public panel discussion with host and PGMT member Dr. Dennis Redeker. The two-hour session was moderated by PGMT member Vasilisa Kuznetsova. The public event under the auspices of ZeMKI, University of Bremen, included a lively discussion with a small…
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X (formerly Twitter) softens its violent speech policy
On the 25th of October 2023, the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, made changes in their global Community Guidelines policy. According to the Platform Governance Archive, a data depository which automatically tracks policy changes on 18 platforms, X significantly softened its violent speech policy. In 2023, violent speech is defined by X (and…
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Public panel discussion on social media governance in Georgia and beyond
On Thursday, 02 November 2023, Member of the ZeMKI’s Platform Governance, Media, and Technology Lab Dr. Dennis Redeker convenes a panel discussion entitled “Building Trust in the Digital Age: How to fight hate and misinformation on social media – in Georgia and beyond”. The public event will take place at 17:00-19:00h at Haus der Wissenschaft…
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Meta changes its policy on sadistic imagery and violence as the Israeli–Palestinian conflict escalates
Meta · Community Guidelines · 17 October, 2023 *The following post may contain explicit language and content that could be distressing to some readers On October 17, Instagram and Facebook changed their Community Guidelines to specifically prohibit sadistic posts containing imagery of deceased babies. While before the corresponding policy section forbade the posting of “sadistic…
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New book by Dennis Redeker (PGMT) and colleagues: “The Content Governance Dilemma”
In July 2023, PGMT member Dr. Dennis Redeker – together with Dr. Edoardo Celeste (Dublin City University), Dr. Nicola Palladino (Trinity College Dublin) and Dr. Kinfe Yilma (Addis Ababa University) – published a new book with Palgrave Macmillan. “The Content Governance Dilemma: Digital Constitutionalism, Social Media and the Search for a Global Standard” can be…
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Portrait of Lab Lead and PGMT work
The online magazine Up2Date of the University of Bremen has produced a nice portrait of the head of the PGMT Lab Christian Katzenbach and of the work at PGMT. The text focussed on our wok on discourses and regulation of AI, specifically on the projects Shaping AI and Imaginaries of AI. The article quotes Christian…
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New article by PGMT member Vanessa Richter on Influencers’ Instagram Imaginaries
PGMT member Vanessa Richter together with Zhen Ye has published an article on “Influencers’ Instagram Imaginaries as a global phenomenon: Negotiating precarious interdependencies on followers, the platform environment, and commercial expectations” in a Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies special issue on social media and platform work. The article deals with…
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PGMT member’s research supported by Data Science Center Seed Grant
The Data Science Center (DSC) at the University of Bremen supports research by PGMT Lab Dr. Dennis Redeker, which is planned at the intersection of data science and methods development for social scientific survey research. Large-scale cross-national surveys in the social sciences are normally run as face-to-face surveys which makes them extremely resource-intensive. Online surveys,…
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YouTube now permitting misinformation about US elections
YouTube ‧ Community Guidelines · June 2, 2023 YouTube changed its guidelines now allowing false claims regarding the 2020 and other past US presidential elections on their site. An updated YouTube elections misinformation policy implies that the platform will no longer remove false information about any past US presidential election, including claims about widespread fraud,…