Digitalisation and Media Archives

Taming Tech Giants in Europe

Posted on 1 February 2023
by Francisca Nemeth-Trocado
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Preserving Competition through the Digital Markets Act. In recent years, the all-too-familiar ‘Big Tech’ has been taking over local, regional, and global markets. The European Union has been striving to adapt to this new reality by adopting legislation that is better suited to tackle the…

The battle against disinformation

Posted on 15 December 2022
by Ayla Elzinga
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Why knowing how to fact-check is the most important weapon. It is on a Friday afternoon in Summer 2020 that a gray-haired man orders a beer next to me on a sunny terrace. The dark circles under his eyes betray he probably had a long…

#Ukraine – How social media proves to be a vital instrument in times of war in the year 2022

Posted on 31 March 2022
by Anoek Zijderveld, Linda den Bol and Sandra Zwick
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Social media has been heavily criticised in the last years for its negative impacts on mental health and its overall far-reaching influence on our daily lives. However, in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, social media has fueled international cohesion and mobilised immense…

The Oversight Board: Facebook’s Self-Regulation with a Twist

Posted on 12 October 2021
by Madalina Nicolai
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Meet Facebook’s Oversight Board As Facebook’s membership slowly inches towards 3 billion, content moderation is increasingly becoming a task riddled with legal and political pitfalls. The company strives to serve all the different types of users, cultures, and political systems that inhabit the platform, and…

Internet governance: reigning in big tech

Posted on 18 March 2021
by Finn McCartney
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Regulating market "gatekeepers". At the beginning of the 21st century, the European Union implemented the e-Commerce Directive that has “the foundational legal framework for online services in the Internal Market.” Over the past 20 years, the way we use the internet has changed from a…