Using the DSA to Study Platforms
The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) established a host of new transparency mandates for online platforms. One of the simplest yet most critical allows researche…
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From Murdoch to Musk: Platform ownership and the political economy of online content governance
The recent upheavals in content governance at X and Meta have something in common: both were initiated by the platform's controlling shareholders. As the US…
Algorithmic Enclosure? Reclaiming a Human-Centred Governance Model for Online Creativity
This chapter argues that the real risk of 'algorithmic enclosure' arises not from using automation, but from using it without rights-driven, human-centr…
What Europe’s Digital Services Act Says About Age Assurance
The Digital Services Act (DSA) establishes a wide regulatory framework applicable to intermediary services and particularly online platforms in the European Uni…
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Censorship, Civilizational Allies, and Codes of Practice: How European Tech Regulation Became a Geopolitical Flashpoint
Daphne Keller and Joan Barata of Stanford’s PPR discuss the European Union’s Disinformation Code of Practice and its transition, on July 1, from voluntary frame…
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The Rising Power of Big Tech
In a moment of rapid change for global politics, Big Tech platforms and their owners are shaping up to be international power brokers. Trump's White H…
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The Just Security Podcast: Regulating Social Media — Is it Lawful, Feasible, and Desirable?
2025 will be a pivotal year for technology regulation in the United States and around the world. The European Union has begun regulating social media platforms…
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Teaching Platform Regulation
This year I taught my “standard” platform regulation course for something like the twelfth time. Here’s the syllabus. The course has changed a lot over the year…
Will the DSA Save Democracy? The Test of the Recent Presidential Election in Romania
Voting manipulation through social media platforms. Illegal campaign financing on TikTok. Cyber-attacks. Suspected Russian interference. The circumstances aroun…
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Lawfare Live: Meta To End Fact-Checking Program
Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes will talk to Lawfare Senior Editor Quinta Jurecic, Associate Research Professor at Georgetown University Renee DiR…
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The Brussels Effect: Daphne Keller
Our next guest in this series focuses on the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) and the risk of prematurely exporting an EU law: Daphne Keller, Director of the Pro…
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Social media giants say they have First Amendment rights that protect their speech
ALLYN: Far-fetched to Wu, but the Supreme Court sees it differently. In a recent case involving the tech lobbyist group NetChoice, the court ruled that social m…