Rebecca Scharlach
@rscarlets.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher PGMT Lab @Uni Bremen | prev. DigitalValues project | Critical Platform Studies | European/German/feminist | first gen | she/her
New Preprint: Value-driven AI Governance
Excited to share a preprint of a collaborative article on value-driven AI governance: osf.io/preprints/so...
#AIAct #AIGovernance #Values
Excited to share a preprint of a collaborative article on value-driven AI governance: osf.io/preprints/so...
#AIAct #AIGovernance #Values
January 21, 2026 at 12:53 PM
New Preprint: Value-driven AI Governance
Excited to share a preprint of a collaborative article on value-driven AI governance: osf.io/preprints/so...
#AIAct #AIGovernance #Values
Excited to share a preprint of a collaborative article on value-driven AI governance: osf.io/preprints/so...
#AIAct #AIGovernance #Values
Late to the party, but this is hands down best internet news in a bazillion years. Martha Root also created a website with leaked data from those right wing dating profiles (88% men) okstupid.lol chapeau #CCC
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Woman Hacks "Tinder for Nazis," Tricks the Racist Users Into Falling in Love With AI Chatbots
A hacker targeted a white supremacist dating website, lured users with an AI chatbot, and deleted the platform entirely live on stage.
futurism.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Late to the party, but this is hands down best internet news in a bazillion years. Martha Root also created a website with leaked data from those right wing dating profiles (88% men) okstupid.lol chapeau #CCC
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
The #AoIR2026 Call for Papers is officially up on the www:
aoir.org/aoir2026/
This year marks AoIRs' first time in Mexico and it will be the second bilingual AoIR.
Please share with your networks. 🌮
aoir.org/aoir2026/
This year marks AoIRs' first time in Mexico and it will be the second bilingual AoIR.
Please share with your networks. 🌮
AoIR 2026 |
aoir.org
January 8, 2026 at 9:10 AM
The #AoIR2026 Call for Papers is officially up on the www:
aoir.org/aoir2026/
This year marks AoIRs' first time in Mexico and it will be the second bilingual AoIR.
Please share with your networks. 🌮
aoir.org/aoir2026/
This year marks AoIRs' first time in Mexico and it will be the second bilingual AoIR.
Please share with your networks. 🌮
Reposted by Rebecca Scharlach
THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
January 3, 2026 at 5:55 PM
THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
After more than a year since completing my doctorate, my PhD thesis, “The Construction of Values by Social Media Platforms,” has finally made its way into the library (open access)🥳
huji.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fu...
huji.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fu...
huji.primo.exlibrisgroup.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
After more than a year since completing my doctorate, my PhD thesis, “The Construction of Values by Social Media Platforms,” has finally made its way into the library (open access)🥳
huji.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fu...
huji.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fu...
"[...] In the broadest spectrum of awareness about these matters we need to ask: Are the practices, relationships and institutions affected by people's involvement with networked computing ones we wish foster? Or are they ones we must try to modify or even oppose?" Winner, 1997.
November 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"[...] In the broadest spectrum of awareness about these matters we need to ask: Are the practices, relationships and institutions affected by people's involvement with networked computing ones we wish foster? Or are they ones we must try to modify or even oppose?" Winner, 1997.
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«Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore.
It’s building empires.»
The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It’s building empires.»
The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
«Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore.
It’s building empires.»
The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It’s building empires.»
The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info
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Michelle has been invaluable in that role for nearly a decade now, but the time has come for @aoir.bsky.social to find a new coordinator to take on these vital duties. 2/2
Job posting is on our listserv. Please share & apply! listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/ai...
Job posting is on our listserv. Please share & apply! listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/ai...
[Air-L] AoIR is searching for a new Association Coordinator!
listserv.aoir.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Michelle has been invaluable in that role for nearly a decade now, but the time has come for @aoir.bsky.social to find a new coordinator to take on these vital duties. 2/2
Job posting is on our listserv. Please share & apply! listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/ai...
Job posting is on our listserv. Please share & apply! listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/ai...
@elinorcarmi.bsky.social tackling my pessimism with inspiring work on “the human data good practice” - very curious to see how this project will develop 🙂 #ZeMKI20
October 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
@elinorcarmi.bsky.social tackling my pessimism with inspiring work on “the human data good practice” - very curious to see how this project will develop 🙂 #ZeMKI20
Very much enjoyed this presentation on the role of social norms & demarcation in platform regulation by @nathalievanraemdonck.com - long story short “democracy is hard” @ckatzenbach.bsky.social #ZeMKI20
October 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Very much enjoyed this presentation on the role of social norms & demarcation in platform regulation by @nathalievanraemdonck.com - long story short “democracy is hard” @ckatzenbach.bsky.social #ZeMKI20
Also very much enjoyed the presentation by @hheuer.bsky.social on co-creating social media with some peak visuals #ZeMKI20
October 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Also very much enjoyed the presentation by @hheuer.bsky.social on co-creating social media with some peak visuals #ZeMKI20
Throughly enjoyed this talk by Marilia Gehrke and @eedanamitdanhi.bsky.social on gendered disinformation as violence (as always, slides were 🔥) #ZeMKI20
October 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Throughly enjoyed this talk by Marilia Gehrke and @eedanamitdanhi.bsky.social on gendered disinformation as violence (as always, slides were 🔥) #ZeMKI20
Last session on a Friday afternoon is always a hard one, but we made the most of our small round table discussing lessons of the @aoir.bsky.social flashpoint on platform & AI governance. thx to @tomdivon.bsky.social @taylorannabell.bsky.social @deeliu97.bsky.social & Thales Lelo!! #aoir2025
October 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Last session on a Friday afternoon is always a hard one, but we made the most of our small round table discussing lessons of the @aoir.bsky.social flashpoint on platform & AI governance. thx to @tomdivon.bsky.social @taylorannabell.bsky.social @deeliu97.bsky.social & Thales Lelo!! #aoir2025
Hey #AoIR2025 catch me today at 4 pm with a wonderful group of scholars - Taylor Annabell, Diyi Liu, Thales Lelo and Tom Divon - for a roundtable on the future of tech governance research. This is going to be an open discussion, so please join and share your thoughts!
October 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Hey #AoIR2025 catch me today at 4 pm with a wonderful group of scholars - Taylor Annabell, Diyi Liu, Thales Lelo and Tom Divon - for a roundtable on the future of tech governance research. This is going to be an open discussion, so please join and share your thoughts!
Olá #AoIR2025, I’m in Rio and have already been very much enjoying my time in this beautiful, beautiful city!
Feel free to reach out if you wanna chat! ☕️
Feel free to reach out if you wanna chat! ☕️
October 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Olá #AoIR2025, I’m in Rio and have already been very much enjoying my time in this beautiful, beautiful city!
Feel free to reach out if you wanna chat! ☕️
Feel free to reach out if you wanna chat! ☕️
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
I'm really trying to follow US news but what the actual f is even happening at this point?!
September 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I'm really trying to follow US news but what the actual f is even happening at this point?!
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"As for the algorithm, if the concern had been that TikTok could be a conduit for Chinese government propaganda—a concern the Supreme Court declined to even consider —people can now be concerned that TikTok could be a conduit for U.S. government propaganda."
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
EFF Statement on TikTok Ownership Deal
One of the reasons we opposed the TikTok "ban" is that the First Amendment is supposed to protect us against government using its power to manipulate speech. But as predicted, the TikTok "ban" has onl...
www.eff.org
September 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
"As for the algorithm, if the concern had been that TikTok could be a conduit for Chinese government propaganda—a concern the Supreme Court declined to even consider —people can now be concerned that TikTok could be a conduit for U.S. government propaganda."
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Andreessen Horowitz, which will be one of three firms to lead the acquisition of TikTok, is headed by Marc Andreessen, a Silicon Valley tech titan who considered himself to be "an unpaid intern" of Elon Musk's DOGE. But he's not the only major Trump ally involved with this deal
TikTok’s U.S. business would be controlled by an investor consortium including Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz under a framework the U.S. and China are finalizing.
September 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
insert “this is fine” meme
Working on my syllabus for an undergrad class on "Tech Cultures: Innovation, Ideology & Influence." think cyberlibertarianism, tech bros, manosphere, tech/politics entanglements.
Anyone already designed classes on these topics & willing to share their syllabus? happy to share mine once finalized!
Anyone already designed classes on these topics & willing to share their syllabus? happy to share mine once finalized!
September 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Working on my syllabus for an undergrad class on "Tech Cultures: Innovation, Ideology & Influence." think cyberlibertarianism, tech bros, manosphere, tech/politics entanglements.
Anyone already designed classes on these topics & willing to share their syllabus? happy to share mine once finalized!
Anyone already designed classes on these topics & willing to share their syllabus? happy to share mine once finalized!
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BIG NEWS (!!) I’ve received an ERC starting grant for my project PAY4PLAY: Entrepreneurial Organizing in the Platform Society. Please prepare to hear me talking about how platforms, creators, 💸, organizing, and power for the next five years. Read more here: www.blakehallinan.com/pay4play
PAY4PLAY — blake hallinan
www.blakehallinan.com
September 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
BIG NEWS (!!) I’ve received an ERC starting grant for my project PAY4PLAY: Entrepreneurial Organizing in the Platform Society. Please prepare to hear me talking about how platforms, creators, 💸, organizing, and power for the next five years. Read more here: www.blakehallinan.com/pay4play
Shout out to @adriennemassanari.bsky.social for introducing me to David Golumbia. Already shed some tears over the foreword. Considering the current state of…things, I’m both excited and terrified about reading his work. But here we go
August 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Shout out to @adriennemassanari.bsky.social for introducing me to David Golumbia. Already shed some tears over the foreword. Considering the current state of…things, I’m both excited and terrified about reading his work. But here we go
💥new paper out in New Media & Society💥
In this collaborative paper, led by @blakeplease.bsky.social, we compare Community Guidelines using the typology of harms from the Trust and Safety Professional Association to identify policy priorities and exclusions. Check out Blake’s thread for the deets👇
In this collaborative paper, led by @blakeplease.bsky.social, we compare Community Guidelines using the typology of harms from the Trust and Safety Professional Association to identify policy priorities and exclusions. Check out Blake’s thread for the deets👇
How does the professionalization of Trust & Safety shape global content moderation practices? We compare Community Guidelines using the typology of harms from TSPA to identify policy priorities and exclusions, available #openaccess in New Media & Society: doi.org/10.1177/1461...
Priorities and exclusions within Trust and Safety industry standards - Blake Hallinan, CJ Reynolds, Rebecca Scharlach, Dana Theiler, Noa Niv, Omer Rothenstein, Isabell Knief, Yehonatan Kuperberg, 2025
Platform governance is simultaneously a matter of public concern and a professional calling for Trust and Safety, the nascent field tasked with setting and enfo...
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July 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
💥new paper out in New Media & Society💥
In this collaborative paper, led by @blakeplease.bsky.social, we compare Community Guidelines using the typology of harms from the Trust and Safety Professional Association to identify policy priorities and exclusions. Check out Blake’s thread for the deets👇
In this collaborative paper, led by @blakeplease.bsky.social, we compare Community Guidelines using the typology of harms from the Trust and Safety Professional Association to identify policy priorities and exclusions. Check out Blake’s thread for the deets👇