Commission preliminarily finds TikTok and Meta in breach of their transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act Today, the European Commission preliminarily found both TikTok and Meta in breach of their obligation to grant researchers adequate access to public data under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

This will not come as a surprise to any social media or internet researchers.

"Today, the European Commission preliminarily found both TikTok & Meta in breach of their obligation to grant researchers adequate access to public data under the Digital Services Act (#DSA)." ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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Our new book: AI: Rethink, Regulate, Reimagine is out now ✨

Seeing Like a Platform has arrived in physical form! 😮

Of everything I've ever written, this is probably the work I'm most proud of.

And it's free to read! www.seeinglikeaplatform.com

Would love to hear your thoughts!

Today, the @fsw-kuleuven.bsky.social Research Day is taking place! @leendhaenens.bsky.social introduced our brand new lab, while our member @sercankiyak.bsky.social presented his work on refugee and migrant discourse in Belgium and Hungary 🔍

We had our first "Coffee and Cake Break", where everyone from the Media Culture & Policy Lab gets together to catch up on the latest studies, ask questions and have a nice chat. ☕
 
Yesterday we celebrated the start of our lab. Here's to many more inspiring and fun times together!

“This decision is a huge victory for academic freedom and our democracy! We have secured access to crucial research data and are blocking attempts to manipulate elections." - Simone Ruf, lawyer and Deputy Director of the Center for User Rights at the Society for Civil Rights (GFF).

Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites "This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request," a directive "per NASA HQ direction" stated.

NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...

#Etmaal2025 is amazing! I presented my first poster (co-authored with @leendhaenens.bsky.social and my CELSA project colleagues) about the comparison of Flemish and Hungarian migration/refugee discourse in Parlement, news and social media in 2015 and 2022.