Political debates, campaigns, and advertising increasingly take place on online platforms. However, research on election communication has been significantly hampered as formerly accessible data sources have been withdrawn or commercialised. With the implementation of the EU Digital Services Act...

Numerous empirical studies indicate that social media use is correlated with, and sometimes might be causing, mental harms like addiction, anxiety and depression, or lowering of cognitive abilities. In 2023, the European Parliament called on the European Commission to introduce new rules to...

Digital public services significantly reduce transaction costs for citizens and service delivery costs for the government, facilitating access to benefits and rights and enabling the fulfillment of obligations. However, promoting the adoption of these services by highlighting their availability...

The European Commission envisages Digital Product Passports (DPPs) as a mechanism to enable traceable, transparent, and standardized product data across supply chains. This work presents a modular pipeline that transforms raw sensor data into verifiable DPP records using large language models...

The modern digital public sphere requires effective content moderation systems that balance the interests of states, technology companies, and the public. This article examines how two pieces of legislation establish regulatory intermediaries in an attempt to strike this balance: the EU's...

Trusted flaggers have long played a role in content moderation: a bilateral, voluntary affair between online platforms and individuals or organisations that are afforded prioritised access to the content moderation process. Due to their expertise, they are trusted to 'flag' illegal or harmful...

This article seeks to explore the socio-demographic determinants underlying the engagement of moderators and the production of content moderation norms in the French Twitch scene. Using a mixed-method approach, it highlights gender, politicisation, social class, and social vulnerability...

On October 4, 2021, all services provided by Meta Platforms, Inc. (then Facebook, Inc.) became unavailable unexpectedly for all its worldwide users for a period of about six hours. We use detailed high‐frequency tracking data from smartphones, tablets and desktop computers of thousands of Meta...