A belated but deeply felt celebration on a beautiful Oxford summer day🍾To the movie nights, book clubs, park walks, board games, travels, wine and cheese, laughter and tears — and above all, the gift of being surrounded by people who cherish honest, generous conversations.

While the US pushed TikTok into a sale over national security concerns, Vietnam fined the platform for misleading users and is tightening control over how it operates at home, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Lam Le.

This figure (and the full article) tells you a lot about the grip the tech sector and its lobbyists have on UK government thinking and just how hard it is for civil society to get its voice heard. #onlinesafetyact 👇🏻 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

📌 December 1–2, 2025 | Online PlatGovNet2025 is around the corner! This year’s edition features a vibrant program of research and three inspiring keynote speakers who will explore the transitions, tensions, and new realities shaping platform governance: platgov.net/assets/site/...

Check out this interview 🙌🙌🙌🙌 !!

We previously raised the need for more contextual data access around the moderation workforce in our submission to the DSA Article 40 public consultation. Here’s the full analysis that motivated our recommendation👇

🚣🚣 Only two weeks left to submit your abstract to this year’s PlatGovNet 🚣🚣

Gosh, good thing there's no reason to think that the platform has any incentive to artificially increase the reach of this account or in any other way bend the rules www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

🏆 Thrilled to share that our HateDay paper has received an Outstanding Paper Award at #ACL2025 Big thanks to my wonderful co-authors: @deeliu97.bsky.social, Niyati, @computermacgyver.bsky.social, Sam, Victor, and @paul-rottger.bsky.social! Thread 👇and data avail at huggingface.co/datasets/man...

Like, share, subscribe and submit to this new edition of PlatGovNet 🫶 It’s online with no registration fee. Abstract due September 2

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BBC News - WhatsApp backs Apple in its legal row with the UK over user data - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sadly I’m going to miss the #ICA25, but really honoured to be listed as one of the top student papers of @ica-clp.bsky.social (!) Definitely check out the other presentations of the session if you're around. My slides are also live now: doi.org/10.1177/2056...

It was a really fun conversation and thanks again for hosting me!

SCOOP: More than 300 FTC blogs published under FTC Chair Lina Khan disappeared this morning. They included posts critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI. www.wired.com/story/federa...

🎙️TikTok Special 02 out! As digital infrastructures become battlegrounds for geopolitics, it’s crucial to go beyond TikTok and navigate the complexities in the digital age. Join us with @deeliu97.bsky.social to uncover the power dynamics shaping global digital politics. matters.town/a/lnqsg5xc3e...

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

Registration open and Call for Abstracts, Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies workshop. University of Oxford, March 25-26. www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

New blog! @oiioxford.bsky.social doctoral researchers @deeliu97.bsky.social, @manueltonneau.bsky.social and Juliette Zaccour propose a series of recommendations for effective data access and data governance in light of the EU’s Digital Service Act. Read the full article: bit.ly/49DJyhn

Wrapping up the year with a Behind the Scenes seminar hosted by @pgmt.bsky.social Perfect timing to share some reflections on my thesis methodology and hear critique/thoughts from the community. Would love to have you there!

Using my first post here to proudly share impressive work led by @manueltonneau.bsky.social! Based on a representative TwitterDay dataset, this study has important implications for balancing costs and necessity of hate speech moderation at scale. Do check out the thread, the paper & HateDay: