APC3d ago

>>> Brazil is exploring ways to hold platforms accountable in court and beyond.

Holding platforms accountable is urgent worldwide, and the Brazilian Supreme Court has set an important precedent.

“The decision establishes, legally, in Brazil, that digital platforms are not neutral in relation to the content that circulates in the virtual environment."

----> Read more: https://www.apc.org/en/node/40798/

#Brazil #platformgovernance #Accountability

Open Terms ArchiveJul 16

🚨 We’re hiring analysts at Open Terms Archive!
🧾 Freelance · Remote · 6 months
💶 €1200/month (~1h/day)

Track and explain how Big Tech changes its terms of service, privacy policies, and other rules and how it treats users differently across jurisdictions.

🌍 Async, global team
📅 Apply by July 27
🔍 More info and how to apply: https://opentermsarchive.org/en/jobs/analyst/

#Hiring #DigitalRights #PlatformGovernance #OpenSource #Transparency #DSA #RemoteWork

Analyst position

Join Open Terms Archive as an analyst. Bring light to the evolution of big tech policies. Apply by July 27, 2025.

Show threadWeizenbaum-InstitutJul 1
@claraigk #DigitalServicesAct #DSA #PlatformGovernance #SystemicRisk #TechPolicy #InternetRegulation #DigitalRights #PublicPolicy #PowerDynamics #EUlaw @lkseiling
Matti SchneiderJun 4
Great research presented by @cka, thanks to semantic analysis of Community Guidelines over time: yes, platforms do react to pressure.
See how the politicisation of #misinformation in politics (#FakeNews), then in health (Covid), now of #FreeSpeech, is directly visible in the number of rules that relate to the topics!
Very proud of our ongoing years-long @opentermsarchive partnership with @zemki that enables such findings 💞
#AoIR #PlatformGovernance
Show threadMatti SchneiderJun 4
Very proud to see so visibly on this graph how the switch to @opentermsarchive enables researchers to gather significantly more data to understand and analyse #PlatformGovernance (see the increase in data points in 2022) ☺️
#AoIR
Show threadMatti SchneiderJun 4
Fascinating: we know very little of the ownership structure of Bytedance (#TikTok ), #BlueSky, or… #xAI.
#PlatformGovernance #AoIR
Open Terms ArchiveMay 12

🗓️ 9 participants from 4 countries joined last week’s #CommunityCall to talk about #PlatformGovernance w/ @cka , Kim Ermler, Zenobio Almeida & Gleb Tomashevski from @zemki's @pgmt, @unibremen.

They use @opentermsarchive to track how #SocialMedia platforms evolve within shifting regulatory environments and shared how they’re building a sustainable, professional research team, onboarding challenges and all (Zenobio's graph was a hit!)

Open Terms ArchiveMay 7
📣 Today is this month's #CommunityCall ! Call in from 09:00 to 10:00 UTC at: https://meet.jit.si/OpenTermsArchiveCommunityCall to:

1️⃣ Get updates about the latest features
2️⃣ Learn about the PGA Collection with @@cka, Kim Ermler, and Zenobio Almeida!
3️⃣ Get real-time tech support from the core team to track and maintain your existing collections

#PlatformGovernance #Transparency #DigitalCommons #TechForGood
Jitsi Meet

Join a WebRTC video conference powered by the Jitsi Videobridge

APCMay 6

>> Call for applications: School on Platform Governance to be held in Bangkok, Thailand (28-31 July, 2025).

---> Participants will engage with experts and practitioners currently working on platform and tech accountability at the regional and international level.

https://www.apc.org/en/news/call-applications-school-platform-governance

#platformgovernance #thailand #callforapplications

Call for applications: School on Platform Governance

The Association for Progressive Communications and Open Net Korea are delighted to launch the call for applications to the School on Platform Governance (SoPG) 2025!

Association for Progressive Communications
Weizenbaum-InstitutApr 24

“Meta’s recent changes are part of a larger shift by US tech companies to align with conservative leaders, which will have implications for global efforts towards information integrity.”

New #wjds paper by Ned Watt, Silvia Montaña-Niño, and Michelle Riedlinger:

➡️ https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.2.1

#FactChecking #Disinformation #DigitalMedia #PlatformGovernance #ContentModeration #DigitalPolitics #DigitalDemocracy #research #socialscience

The Art of the (Platform) Deal: Tech Platforms, Fact Checkers, and the Politics of Truth | Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society