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When scholars sprint, bad algorithms are on the run
The first research sprint of the Ethics of Digitalisation project financed by the Stiftung Mercator reached the finishing line. Thirteen international fellows tackled pressing issues concerning the use of AI in content moderation. Looking back at ten intense weeks of interdisciplinary research, we share highlights and key outcomes.In response to increasing public pressure to tackle hate speech and ...
Corona crisis fuels hate against Chinese on Twitter: Commentary
The COVID-19 pandemic has the world firmly in its grip with millions of confirmed cases worldwide and whole countries in full or partial lockdown. Despite calls for solidarity across borders and countless local support initiatives, various incidents prove that the corona outbreak has also given rise to a series of racist attacks against Chinese people and people with Asian looking features both on ...
Who Governs the Internet?
Based on the guiding principle „digital policy means social policy“, this publication follows the idea that internet governance affects everyone. An open, free and global Internet is vital for all. Therefore, infrastructures for surveillance and censorship should not be established.This publication gives an overview of actors and areas of action and stresses that collective engagement is ...
Research Monitor Microtargeting
The iRights.Lab think tank produces a regular Research Monitor on behalf of the State Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia.German and European researchers have thus far dealt only tentatively with the topic of microtargeting in election campaigns. Most of the research projects and scientific papers on the subject are from the USA. Since Barack Obama’s election campaign in 2008 at the ...
International Rules for Social Media: Safeguarding Human Rights and Fighting Disinformation
Facebook, Wikipedia, YouTube and Twitter are increasingly becoming a vehicle for the strategic use of information by states (so-called dis/information operations). These platforms, which are conceptually defined as 'social media', provide their users with a wide range of opportunities to obtain information, to network, to form opinions and to communicate. It is clear that these processes need law ...
Comment about Mark Zuckerbergs „Independent Governance and Oversight“
Why Zuckerberg’s “Independent Governance and Oversight” board is not gonna fly (but some of his other ideas are at least worth discussing) Mark Zuckerberg is all for regulation of social media all of sudden. What’s wrong with that picture? In an almost 5,000 word “blog post”, Zuckerberg (plus we assume two dozen or so of the company’s public policy hacks and lawyers) has laid out ...
The Time is Right for Europe to Take the Lead in Global Internet Governance
Europe is a key normative power. Its legitimacy as a force for ensuring the reign of rule of law in international relations is unparalleled. It also packs an economic punch. In data protection and the fight against cybercrime, European norms have been successfully globalized. The time is right to take the next step: Europe must now become the international normative leader for developing a new ...
Twitter, the Elite Network
Dr. Sascha Hölig examines in a study to what extent the athmosphere on Twitter reflects the current athmosphere within society. The conclusion: Twitter fails as a mood barometer. In an interview on WDR 5, he spoke today with Anja Backhaus about the "elite network" and about the risks it holds when it is overrated by journalists and decision-makers.That Twitter cannot serve as an image of our ...