Researching numbers & objectivity in politics, PhD student at the University of Milan.
Disinformation, social media, EU tech policy.
new policy brief I wrote for the Hertie School Centre for Digital Governance, setting out why & how to factor the (very substantial) environmental impacts of consumer tech platforms into enforcement of the #DSA risk assessment system ⬇️
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!
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.
100 international researchers are calling to support the International Observatory on Information and Democracy, which is the equivalent for information chaos of the IPCC for global warming
@humanrightswatch is looking for a consultant on disability rights and tech.
https://boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightswatch/jobs/6736493002
"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."
Really sensible to this idea that action is worse than inaction. What I keep wondering is: if this already happened in the past then objectivity as an ideal to guide public sphere already went through rough patches and survived. But today for a lot of people it feels like something new is happening. If they're wrong then we'll find new ways to share objective facts. But if they're right... "Coming back from that" will mean building a 'new-objectivity' pub sphere.
"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.
Rachel Griffin
Taylor Lorenz
Claire Pershan
