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

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...

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...

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

‘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....

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?

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...