X has - rather quietly - rolled out a new way to provide researchers access to public data on X, as required per article 40.12 of the Digital Services Act. If you have applied or successfully obtained access please let me know! x.com/mathver/stat...

Great fully funded PhD candidate position at Maastricht University on Machine Learning, Data Science and Law #jobswww.academictransfer.com/en/334212/ph...

PhD candidate position on Machine Learning, Data Science, and Law

Maastricht University invites applications for a fully funded PhD position focused on integrating machine learning and data science techniques with the law.

Want to know what the platforms' transparency reports under DSA say about their moderation practices? @mathver.bsky.socialtwitter.com/mathver/stat...

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Telegram is not a vlop indeed. EC has no authority. Local DSC has. And that will be Germany afaik.

New research from @isdglobal.bsky.socialwww.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...

Rise in antisemitism on both mainstream and fringe social media platforms following Hamas’ terrori...

The 7 Oct Hamas attack in Israel has echoed a known pattern online, with ISD analysis finding a 50-fold increase in antisemitic comments on YouTube, as well as spikes on alt-tech platforms.

"Our results suggest that OpenLLaMA does remember having seen a specific piece of content during training" ?!?Big implicaitons for audits/IP? arxiv.org/abs/2310.15007

Did the Neurons Read your Book? Document-level Membership...

With large language models (LLMs) poised to become embedded in our daily lives, questions are starting to be raised about the dataset(s) they learned from. These questions range from potential...

It's impossible to condense over 3 decades of research and writing about trust and safety and internet governance into a 14 week class... but here's a first draft of the syllabus and reading list for my course next semester: docs.google.com/document/d/1... I'd love your feedback and suggestions.

Aka "Building the case against X" in Europe #dsawww.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Consequences of Elon Musk’s Ownership of X

Dozens of studies of posts on X from multiple organizations have shown a similar trend: an increase in harmful content during Mr. Musk’s tenure.

Yesterday when someone asked me about the whole "Westminster Declaration" thing I said it wasn't worth commenting about. Today... I couldn't resist: www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-file...

‘Twitter Files’ Hucksters Are Once Again Cosplaying as Free Speech Martyrs

Matt Taibbi and other Elon Musk-favored journalists published “The Westminster Declaration”—their latest attempt to spin a non-story into dire censorship.