European Commission just opened formal proceedings against Meta under DSA. They specifically mentioned the deprecation of CrowdTangle and the inadequate replacement (i.e., Content Library)

Press release link: ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

We're featured in @Mozilla’s new AI Intersections Database, which maps where #AI impacts meet social justice issues and catalogs the people and organizations working to make AI equitable for all. Check it out! AIDatabase.Mozilla.org

Honored to be featured in @Mozilla’s new AI Intersections Database with Observatory on Social Media (and many other awesome folks), which maps where #AI impacts meet social justice issues and catalogs the people and organizations working to make AI equitable for all.

AIDatabase.Mozilla.org

Serious but also ironic

AI-fuelled election campaigns are here — where are the rules? nature.com/articles/d4158…

New effort to 'inoculate' U.S. voters against AI misinformation axios.com/2024/04/08/ele…

Emergence of simple and complex contagion dynamics from weighted belief networks | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Awesome work led by Rachith Aiyappa 👏👏

📣 Don't miss our final Awesome Speaker of the year!

Join us for Sinan Aral's talk 'A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties' tomorrow at 12:15pm ET.

Register here: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

An A.I. Researcher Takes On Election Deepfakes nytimes.com/2024/04/02/tec…

AI tools seem pretty bad at detecting AI-generated audio deepfakes

npr.org/2024/04/05/124…

My friend Justin Hendrix and I highlight the promise and peril of coming uses of generative AI for moderating social media content:
justsecurity.org/94118/is-gener…

I am super excited for Observatory on Social Media to host Kate Starbird as our next Awesome Speaker! Join us Thursday at 12pm ET for 'Facts, frames, and (mis)interpretations: Understanding rumors as collective sensemaking.'

Register here: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Quoting our Top Fibers dashboard:
How to Combat Emerging Global Social Media Manipulation in 2024 justsecurity.org/93708/social-m…

Today at 12 PM ET. See you there!

This week's OSoMe Awesome speaker is Andy Guess! Tomorrow at 12pm ET, he'll give his talk 'Algorithmic recommendations and polarization on YouTube'. Register here: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

What does CrowdTangle's demise signal for data access under the DSA? Megan A. Brown, Jo(sephine) Lukito, and #KaiChengYang write that they are organizing researchers and journalists to find out.
techpolicy.press/what-does-crow…

Judge’s stern rebuke of Elon Musk’s X gives researchers fresh hope cnn.com/2024/03/26/tec…

Link to the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Link to the Reuters story about our survey: reuters.com/technology/elo…

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Musk's allegation against CCDH could literally be made against most researchers I know, myself included. The judge was right, Musk did so to intimidate. And it worked. But that shouldn't be our reason to stop.

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Happy to see that Musk's lawsuit against Center for Countering Digital Hate was dismissed by the court and that the ruling cited our survey with Jo(sephine) Lukito Megan A. Brown . But reading the ruling gave me a lot to think about
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