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Social Media: Democracy’s Number One Threat?

Posted on 12 March 2024
by Dalia Michaud

How social media impacts the European Parliamentary Elections. This year (2024) is an incredibly significant year for elections, with 64 national elections taking place, representing a combined 49% of the global population. Not to mention that the European Parliament Elections will occur on top of…

Digitalisation and Media

#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

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…

Digitalisation and Media

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

Posted on 12 October 2021
by Madalina Nicolai

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…