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"Reclaiming Trust: Why Bottom-Up Approaches Outshine Traditional Fact-Checking" 🔍
In this piece, I explain why I think Meta’s move to Community Notes is a positive step for the information environment.

In any case “finding truth” is a challenge that can only be tackled on a societal level, allowing challenging perceived wisdom. Top-down approaches are destined to fail, as illustrated by this satirical post: x.com/tegmark/stat...

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The DSA should not be misused to restrict freedom of expression!
I co-signed an open letter to EU Commissioner Thierry Breton raising concerns about the recent letter to X/Twitter chairman Elon Musk.
futurefreespeech.org/open-letter-...

Enjoyed great discussions at the “Symposium – AI & Digital Regulation: Impact on Human Rights and Freedom of Expression” of @SpeechFuture & @cdteu today

⏰On the 19th of February, the European Commission opened formal proceedings against TikTok. In our new blog post “Tik-Tok, DSA O'Clock? Unveiling TikTok's Ad Library Capabilities and Constraints” we offer insights on the ad library and its limitations: tiktok-audit.com/blog/2024/Ti...

⚖️ What the first months of DSA enforcement have meant for TikTok, @JJaursch provides an overview: tiktok-audit.com/blog/2024/DS...

📯Auditing TikTok: Methodological reflections on the RSBA process.
Overview of first findings and methodological decisions of our journey auditing TikTok (@altreflexion.bsky.social & @mrtn3000)
➡️https://tiktok-audit.com/blog/2024/TikTok-RSBA-Step1/

🛍️“Shop Till You Drop...”
Wrote a short blog post on how Temu´s exploitation of TikTok´s affordances creates an abyss of consumer protection ⬇️
tiktok-audit.com/blog/2024/te...

At the Port House of Antwerp today. Fantastic location Looking forward to an amazing conference on recommender systems #DBWRS2023

In Stockholm today for the "The State of Free Speech: Challenges and Solutions for the Digital Age" conference of
@SpeechFuture Looking forward to lots of interesting talks & panels

"TikTok´s Research API falls woefully short"
My colleagues Santiago, Martin & @altreflexion.bsky.social compared TikTok´s research API with data they were able to scrape.
More details: tiktok-audit.com/blog/2023/th...

We took a closer look at the prevalence of political advertisements on TikTok again. More details: tiktok-audit.com/blog/2023/We...

We are pleased to launch our new blog "Auditing TikTok" where we document our journey into exploring TikToks recommendation algorithms: https://tiktok-audit.com/blog/