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Marijn Sax @marijnsax.bsky.social · Aug 20

"Hanging with the T-Bros"

youtu.be/QWT_A_7Jh9Y?...

(Who else than @cgoanta.bsky.social introduced me to T-Bros influencers)

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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · Aug 21

We live in the craziest timeline ever

Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · Jul 16

Taylor Annabell led some of our research on the topic, where we look at an influencer discrimination case study: can an independent contractor benefit from non-discrimination protection in the EU? (not really). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · Jul 16

3. Overall, the influencer's case reflects her being in a 'startup' phase: no business management, no apparent knowledge of the law (and its violaton): "I don't have an accountant, I'm not running a large company. I just make videos that go viral".

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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · Jul 16

2. The court gave a lot of attention to the influencer's number of followers, arguing it is general knowledge that an account with 100,000 followers on Instagram can lead to some considerable monetization. The court confirmed some general sources like Forbes & blog posts used in the investigation.

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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · Jul 16

1. There is still a lot of misunderstanding around barter and non-monetary compensation, and platforms have contributed to the shaping of a general view that "paid partnerships" are different than contributions in kind - disproved in practice in consumer law & tax law, but also social security law.

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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · Jul 16

🧶New influencer case in NL: the Court of Gelderland ordered a food influencer to pay back €38,642.01 in welfare benefits (bijstand) received while the influencer was also getting brand deals (mostly barters). uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=E...

3 important takeaways:

Rechtspraak.nl - Zoeken in uitspraken

Zoeken in uitspraken

uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl

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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · May 3

The White House is doing influencer press briefings now and it speaks volume as to why journalists can’t be replaced

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The White House is now holding press briefings specifically for MAGA influencers

‘So what direction do you advise me to go into?’ one MAGA media personality asked during the first ‘official influencer’ briefing that Karoline Leavitt held this week

www.independent.co.uk

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · Mar 14

Had a fantastic time at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social last week. It was great to have discussions on the very timely topic of political influencers with @hannakainen.bsky.social, Johanna Arnesson, @taylorannabell.bsky.social and Romanian streamer Faiãr. Thank you for having us @cgoanta.bsky.social!

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Mar 14

I’ve posted a number of threads over the past couple of weeks explaining the framework I’ve developed around disordered discourse and its outcomes.
But I also want to explain why that framework is useful, beyond just mapping the problem or explaining how we got here.

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Amsterdam Law School @uvalawschool.bsky.social · Feb 18

@naomiappelman.bsky.social promoveert op het proefschrift: 'Contesting Online Exclusion. #EU-regulation of content moderation through an agonistic lens' op 28 februari. Haar promotoren zijn prof. dr. N. Helberger en prof. @jvh.bsky.social. https://bit.ly/4jYc8i5

Contesting Online Exclusion. EU-regulation of content moderation through an agonistic lens

Naomi Appelman will defend the dissertation 'Contesting Online Exclusion. EU-regulation of content moderation through an agonistic lens'. Supervisors are Prof. N. Helberger and Prof. J.V.J. van Hoboken.

bit.ly

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CCSN @weareccsn.bsky.social · Feb 17

When kids become their parents' content on TikTok! 🤳✨ Check out this timely paper by our community members @tomdivon.bsky.social @taylorannabell.bsky.social @cgoanta.bsky.social 👇

Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · Feb 14

New publication! 🚨 Together with my brill team (@taylorannabell.bsky.social & @cgoanta.bsky.social), we explore how parents turn kids into commodities on TikTok, diving into the nuances of *kidfluencers* & raising legal questions about platform governance. See🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · Feb 18

X raises its Premium+ subscription to $40 per month, or $395 per year, after raising it to $22 per month in December 2024, following Grok3's launch (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · Feb 14

New publication! 🚨 Together with my brill team (@taylorannabell.bsky.social & @cgoanta.bsky.social), we explore how parents turn kids into commodities on TikTok, diving into the nuances of *kidfluencers* & raising legal questions about platform governance. See🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Jan 28

Trump White House redefines ‘the press’:

“Whether you are a TikTok content creator, a blogger, a podcaster … if you are producing legitimate news content, you will be allowed to apply for press credentials to this White House”

Seems small, huge ramifications!

www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/whit...

White House will reserve front-row seats in press briefings for influencers, podcasters, and others in “new media”

When she took the podium for the first time on Tuesday afternoon, Karoline Leavitt became the youngest White House press secretary in history. The 27-year-old New Hampshire native is the sixth working...

www.niemanlab.org

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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · Jan 11

Regulation vibe shift: adopting rules to hold predatory practices by highly powerful tech companies accountable is ‘screwing’ with US industry.

The Brussels effect had a good run, platform governance will now likely go back to its initial US colonialism.

www.politico.eu/article/zuck...

Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies

Comparing the bloc’s antitrust penalties to tariffs, the Meta boss argued that Brussels is “screwing with” American industry.

www.politico.eu

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Jerry Spanakis 🟥 @gerasimoss.bsky.social · Jan 6

🎉 Our paper "Influencer self-disclosure practices on Instagram: A multi-country longitudinal study" is officially out

🔗 shorturl.at/v2znK

Led by @thalesbertaglia.bsky.social w/Adriana Iamnitchi, @cgoanta.bsky.social we analyzed 1M+ Instagram posts (2010–2020) from 400 influencers across 🇺🇸🇧🇷🇳🇱🇩🇪
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · Jan 5

The study of the legal professionalisation of influencers is in its infancy, and needs more attention. We provide a comprehensive web measurement of a unique influencer dataset which we manually curated. My favourite graph in the paper 👇

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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · Jan 5

Our legal computational paper led by @ThalesBertaglia w @gerasimoss & @2late2matter is out in Online Social Networks & Media! We look at self-disclosure practices by 400 influencers from 4 countries (NL, DE, BR & US) in 1m Instagram posts across 10 years.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…