Clay Higgins sent a letter to Bluesky and other social media sites threatening investigations if they don't censor speech critical of Charlie Kirk. They don't even know who Jay is because they addressed her as "gentleman." clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/u...

Wanna know what changed between the Draft of the Delegated Act on Research Data Access in the #DSA? We've aligned the relevant passages and just published the comparison on our website: dsa40collaboratory.eu/dda-da-compa... Data & code used are available on our github: github.com/access-colla...

📢 Big news for platform researchers across Europe and beyond: Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.

After presenting at #ICWSM25 yesterday (for link to the paper ⤵️), I’ve just arrived at @epsanet.bsky.social in Madrid! Tomorrow (Thursday, 13:10, Room 1A.02), I’ll be presenting a new project that analyzes content moderation dynamics during elections on Bluesky. Hope to see some of you there!

📣 Happy to announce the publication of our article (w @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @friederikeq.bsky.social, @sebnagel.bsky.social, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social & Molly Roberts) on the complexity and availability of community guidelines @icwsm.bsky.social! 🔗 ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...

With Mina Rulis, I've been studying the link between higher education and dissent in autocracies: "Activist disciplines: Universities in autocracies and political protest" has now been published at doi.org/10.1177/2053...! Thanks to the @uni-konstanz.de for supporting open access!

🚨🚀 Looking for a comparative dataset on social media platforms? We’re excited to launch COMPARE! This is a collaborative effort by @nilsweidmann.bsky.social , @friederikeq.bsky.social , @sebnagel.bsky.social , @yannistheocharis.bsky.social & Molly Roberts. 🧵⤵️ (1/5)

Musk and Zuckerberg claim to champion free expression—but surveys across 10 countries reveal a troubling gap between billionaire rhetoric and public expectations on social media, content moderation, and free expression, write Yannis Theocharis, Spyros Kosmidis, Friederike Quint, and Jan Zilinsky:

Call for Papers! 📢 6th Annual Digital Democracy Workshop 🏫 University of Zurich 📅 13-14 November 2025 ⏳ Deadline to submit paper abstracts: 31 May 2025 democracy.dsi.uzh.ch/app/uploads/...

New interview out! I spoke with Lars Lubienetzki for ver.di—one of Germany’s largest trade unions—about our much-anticipated report "Content Warning: Public Attitudes on Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression." 📢 🔗 Only available in German: mmm.verdi.de/aktuelle-mel...

@bsky.app CEO @jay.bsky.team details how the platform utilizes open networks to allow users to craft their own social media experience while maintaining their personal privacy.

🔥 Are you working on next-gen or alternative social media platforms like #Bluesky or #Mastodon? 👇🏻 This @icwsm.bsky.social workshop is for you! 😎 📢 nextgensocial-workshop.github.io 📚 We solicit research, position, demo, and dataset paper submissions! 📆 Submissions: March 31, 2025

Want to work with us? stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/8...

Thrilled that our report "CONTENT WARNING: Public Attitudes on Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression", launched today, has received a very warm reception by the media! 📖 Read the coverage: www.zeit.de/news/2025-02... More info below on some of the questions we tackle 🧵👇

New paper forthcoming in PA, w/ @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @zacharyst.bsky.social, @keremoglu.bsky.social and Bastian Goldlücke! We propose a method that makes image classification more transparent by identifying which objects on images are related to the outcome. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2407.03786

@friederikeq.bsky.social and I will be presenting our ongoing co-authored work with Molly Roberts, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, and Sebastian Nagel at @apsa.bsky.social. Join us for our presentations at 8:00 am and 12:00 pm on Saturday to talk about content moderation!

Come work with us! We have a two-year postdoc position available in our project on content moderation with Molly Roberts and @yannistheocharis.bsky.social. You can find the ad here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/1....

We started the #DSA40Collaboratory Data Access Tracker to collect rejected, pending, and accepted data access requests under #DSA40 - please list your experience and share with colleagues widely @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lkseiling.bsky.social www.soscisurvey.de/DSA40applica...

How is the Internet infrastructure set up in autocracies and democracies? New study at PNAS Nexus with @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, Alex Gamero-Garrido, Esteban Carisimo, Alberto Dainotti, Alex C. Snoeren. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

[New Paper] with @franziskapradel.bsky.social, @janzilinsky.bsky.social & @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social now out in APSR! So happy with this piece which significantly reflects the trajectory of our research agenda at the Chair of Digital Governance! polisky Commsky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...