Very happy to be part of this initiative

Next week we're convening a workshop with The Institute for Ethics in AI, bringing together philosophers and lawyers to discuss a range of normative questions about social media; you can check out the schedule here: oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/event/workshop…

🚨 JOB - Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Platform Governance @UCL. Open to scholars in law, ethics/political philosophy, and other fields doing work that traces normative implications for content moderation and algorithmic curation. Details here: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

New piece in Political Philosophy: “Understanding Free Speech as a Two-Way Right” by Jovy Chan UofT Philosophy #PolPhil You can read the piece, open-access, here: politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/153…

New open access article 'The Bypass Strategy' with Ellen Judson & Jeff Howard Digital Speech Lab now out in the Journal of Media Law. We argue that the Online Safety Act is driving online platforms to adopt a 'Bypass Strategy' of over-moderation, threatening freedom of expression.

When should social media platforms demote harmful content instead of removing it? Our new working paper (with Beatriz Kira and Louisa Bartolo) explores this issue -- feedback welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Important new paper out from our Lab colleague Beatriz Kira.

New paper by our Lab colleague Sarah Fisher Sarah Fisher: "Something AI Should Tell You – The Case for Labelling Synthetic Content", forthcoming in Journal of Applied Philosophy: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

How should platforms moderate ambiguous speech -- where one interpretation violates a content rule, but another doesn't? We explore this question in our new paper "Ambiguous Threats," now out in the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy Sarah Fisher: jesp.org/index.php/jesp…

New paper by our Lab colleague Sarah Fisher: "Large language models and their big bullshit potential" in Ethics & Information Technology: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

CFA: We are thrilled to be co-organising the first international conference on the philosophy of content moderation, to be held in Monterey on April 12 - 15, 2025. Submit a proposal here: philmod.org/conference

New paper: "Moderating Synthetic Content: The Challenge of Generative AI", available open-access at rdcu.be/d0alm

This week on 🎙️ UCL Uncovering Politics 🎙️ we're looking at politician's speech on social media. Should social media platforms act when the things they say are wrong? With @jeffhowarducl, director of the Digital Speech Lab, and host Emily McTernan. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ucl…

JOB (part-time, for a current PhD candidate): Research Assistant in Politics, Philosophy, and Digital Civic Education to engage UCL undergraduates in our work: jobs.ac.uk/job/DLA856/res…

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I'm very excited to announce that I recently joined UCL's Digital Speech Lab (Digital Speech Lab ) as a Research Fellow in Political Philosophy! digitalspeechlab.com/team/kyle-van-…