Really excited to participate in this year's edition of the EU DisinfoLab conference. I'll be speaking alongside Lindsay Hundley and Aaron Rodericks about online content policies, trying to offer new lenses to understand disinformation regulations.

If you're in Krakow on October 10-12 come say hi!

https://www.disinfo.eu/conference#programme

100 researchers support the International Observatory on Information and Democracy. Based on the model of the IPCC, the Observatory aims at aggregating data on the effects of social media on public spaces in different parts of the world.

Accessing data to study social phenomena online remains a challenge. This is a much needed initiative to bridge the gap between science and policy making, at a time when various countries are designing new online regulations.

https://informationdemocracy.org/2023/05/17/the-global-call-of-100-researchers-to-contribute-to-the-international-observatory-on-information-and-democracy/

"By focusing narrowly on problematic content, researchers are failing to understand the increasingly sizable number of people who create and share this content, and also overlooking the larger context of what information people actually need."

https://issues.org/misunderstanding-misinformation-wardle

"Now is *not* the best time to intervene. This would have been clear earlier if observers had analyzed the information environment via an ecological lens."

Pretty bold and thought-provoking piece by @lageneralista

https://www.lawfareblog.com/there-no-getting-ahead-disinformation-without-moving-past-it

Science wars 2.0

A Paper That Says Science Should Be Impartial Was Rejected by Major Journals. You Can’t Make This Up.

https://nyti.ms/3p2A1gt