Google rolls out Gemini 2.0 while the regulators open scissors to cut the empire. Intelligence in the feed, dominance in the code.
🔍👁 #SurveillanceTech #AIAgents #PlatformPower
https://apnews.com/article/e45758d1198a13e322db0fc208dea621
#PlatformPower
🆕 New on Digital Peace: The Instagram Algorithm Knows Too Much
📖 Read now: https://digital-peace.org/the-instagram-algorithm-knows-too-much/
#DigitalPeace #AlgorithmicBehaviour #InstagramAlgorithm #PlatformPower #Techandmind #AlgorithmicControl
Platformmacht: het onverwachte risico voor bedrijven. Blijf alert en bescherm je onderneming! 🚀 #BusinessRisk #PlatformPower
https://itinsights.nl/zakelijke-it/platformmacht-als-onvoorspelbaar-bedrijfsrisico/
The American TikTok deal doesn’t address the platform’s potential for manipulation, only who profits
#TikTok #China #Trump #USA #Deal #Politics #SocialMedia #DigitalSecurity #TechPolicy #PlatformPower #Business #OnlineManipulation #InformationSecurity
https://the-14.com/the-american-tiktok-deal-doesnt-address-the-platforms-potential-for-manipulation-only-who-profits/
Hostility to the techno-determinism as intellectual alibi for political and social harms
This aggressive interview with an incredibly defensive Nick Clegg was fascinating as an instance of contemporary tech politics. I was particularly struck by how he explicitly invokes ‘techno-determinism’ to dismiss claims about social platforms generating politics and social harms:
https://youtu.be/KAYM1arUzXY?si=RlrfpreRLVNwSFPh&t=1563
He argues it’s “patronising” to claim that platforms have a significant influence because “people have agency”. There’s an obvious straw man here, in which claims about platform power are construed as people being cognitively hijacked by whatever they find in their feeds*, gets used to dismiss any claim about platform power. Likewise the claim that the technology you use has an “automatic effect” on what you think and believe.
*I do think some people basically believe this. It’s a stupid and dangerous position which we need to oppose.
#facebook #NickClegg #platformPower #platformisation #socialPlatforms
This diagram, taken directly from the U.S. v. Google judgment, illustrates a fundamental dynamic of digital market power:
Data Aggregation → Market Dominance
This self-reinforcing loop is the core issue with Big Tech platforms: scale isn’t just an advantage — it becomes a moat. And without regulatory intervention, it shuts the door on competition.
#Google #Antitrust #PlatformPower #DataAggregation #BigTech #DigitalMonopoly #DataEconomy #NetworkEffects #Regulation
So honored to have my PhD research featured by Karlstad University! 🎓
📰 “Journalism Rewired: How AI Is Reshaping News in China and Beyond”
What happens when AI meets journalism in China’s tightly controlled media environment? And what can it tell us about the future of news everywhere?
Read the full story 👉 https://www.kau.se/en/news/journalism-rewired-how-ai-reshaping-news-china-and-beyond
#AI #Journalism #DigitalChina #MediaStudies #PhDLife #AIethics #NewsInnovation #PlatformPower #AcademicResearch
Before the internet, hate groups were fringe. Now they’re viral.
In this week’s episode, Dr. Alice Marwick joins us to explain how digital platforms enable extremism, fracture public discourse, and profit from chaos.
🎧 Full episode: https://youtu.be/VQvzxDak_Z0
#TheInternetIsCrack #PlatformPower #DigitalHate #OnlineExtremism #TechEthics #PodcastCommunity
The internet is a truth warzone.
Moderation fails. Regulation doesn’t exist. And yet we pretend it’s all working.
This week on The Internet is Crack, we talk with Alice Marwick of @datasociety about why digital spaces are so toxic, why no one is fixing them, and how online communication has become a profit machine instead of a public good.
🎧 Full episode: https://youtu.be/VQvzxDak_Z0
#ModerationCrisis #AIandTruth #PlatformPower #InternetFreedom #TheInternetIsCrack
Google’s monopoly just got legally smashed—but will it matter?
#TheInternetIsCrack #Antitrust #GoogleTrial #TechMonopoly #TooBigToFail #PlatformPower
Recommended talk from @martinandree about why #bigtech must go:
ICYMI: Swiss media watchdog warns of platform companies' growing power over democracy https://ppc.land/swiss-media-watchdog-warns-of-platform-companies-growing-power-over-democracy/ #MediaFreedom #TechRegulation #DigitalDemocracy #PlatformPower #MarketDominance
ICYMI: Swiss media watchdog warns of platform companies' growing power over democracy: Federal commission calls for new measures to address market dominance and opinion-shaping influence of tech platforms. https://ppc.land/swiss-media-watchdog-warns-of-platform-companies-growing-power-over-democracy/ #MediaFreedom #TechRegulation #DigitalDemocracy #PlatformPower #MarketDominance
🇳🇱 speaking about #PlatformPower as Prediction Power @Dsa Observatory Conference in excellent company @ Amsterdam Law School
/based on our work @RainerMuehlhoff
Program: https://t.co/XaRYP2I9R7
Very important public statement by ~40 #HumanRights groups around the world including @edri and many of its members:
▌Why Infrastructure Providers Should Not Police Content▐
#ProtectTheStack #digitalrights #moderation #censorship #platformpower
Looking forward to moderate today's #FreedomNotFear panel on #PlatformPower.
Event starts at 14h30 CET here: https://www.freedomnotfear.org
Will discuss the power of #BigTech with a bunch of awesome speakers including:
⭕ Paul Tang, Member of the European Parliament
⭕ Katarzyna (Kasia) Szymielewicz, co-founder & director of @panoptykon
⭕ Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of @vivaldibrowser@bots.franssen
⭕ Ilaria Buri, research fellow at the Institute for Information Law, University of #Amsterdam
#FreedomNotFear registration is OPEN!
Vivaldi CEO @jonsvt joins them to discuss #PlatformPower & how a few massive platforms shape our current experience online.
📅21November, ⌚3 pm CET
👉Join #FnF21, a community-driven, interactive & inspiring space https://vi.tc/3kLXNsa
#FreedomNotFear registration is OPEN!
Vivaldi CEO @jonsvt joins them to discuss #PlatformPower & how a few massive platforms shape our current experience online. 📅21November, ⌚3 pm CET
👉Join #FnF21, a community-driven, interactive & inspiring space https://vi.tc/3kLXNsa https://nitter.net/vivaldibrowser/status/1461718670309212168/photo/1
🐦🔗: https://nitter.net/vivaldibrowser/status/1461718670309212168
You work on #PlatformPower, #DigitalServicesAct, #DigitalMarketsAct or would like to get active for decentralising internet infrastructure? Participate in the #FreedomNotFear @fnf event on 21st of November (Sunday afternoon) or maybe even organise a session? I look forward to seeing you there!
Register NOW to discuss how a few massive platforms shape our socio-technical development without democratic control, why this concentration of power must be addressed and what to do about it.
https://www.freedomnotfear.org/2021/freedom-not-fear-21-nov-2021-registration-is-open
I've written an opinion piece for #Reuters Foundation about what legislators should do to help turn the internet into a place for people.
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