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Apply to present at the Trust and Safety Research Conference! Abstracts due April 30, 2023.

As the war in Ukraine continues to reshape security needs in Europe and globally, scholars from the Freeman Spogli Institute agree that Finland can play a unique leadership role in defense and cybersecurity alliances.

We watched 100 hours of TikTok videos while waiting for a research API. Will it be worth the wait?

The second annual Trust & Safety Research Conference, sponsored by the Stanford Internet Observatory, will take place at the Alumni Center at Stanford University

A cornerstone of life online has been that platforms are not responsible for content posted by users. What happens if that immunity goes away? Daphne Keller spoke with Isaac Chotiner of The New Yorker about how the Supreme Court may change how the Internet functions.

Authors: Josh A. Goldstein, Girish Sastry, Micah Musser, Renée DiResta, Matthew Gentzel, Katerina Sedova

SIO releases its annual report summarizing its first three years of research, teaching and policy and laying the path for the years to come.

Blogs

The pitfalls of analyzing emerging events on Twitter.

No one really knows what Elon Musk’s company is doing to free speech. (From The Atlantic)

Large-scale voting fraud may be a chimera, but counting a rising number of ballots quickly will require investments in state and local election administration. Published in the Wall Street Journal.

Moderated Content host Evelyn Douek discusses Twitter’s data security problems and what this says about privacy regulation more generally with Whitney Merrill, the Data Protection Officer and Privacy Counsel at Asana and long-time privacy lawyer including as an attorney at the FTC, and Riana Pfefferkorn, a Research Scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory.

SIO is now part of the new Coalition for Independent Technology Research to share independent, trustworthy research on digital technology and online harms.

In political conspiracy theories, as in television shows, the plot elements are always the same. (From The Atlantic)

Elon Musk’s Twitter deal reveals loopholes in U.S. national security oversight.

Daphne Keller of the Program on Platform Regulation writes about the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), a major milestone in the history of platform regulation. Other governments are now asking themselves what the DSA’s passage means for them. The post briefly discusses that question, with a focus on platforms like Facebook or YouTube and their smaller would-be rivals. Published in Verfassungsblog.

Published in the International Association of Privacy Professionals

Marietje Schaake writes of Musk's first week and what we know about Twitter’s future. Published in the Financial Times.

Commentary

Renee DiResta of the Stanford Internet Observatory writes about the growing body of research suggesting human behavior on social media is strikingly similar to collective behavior in nature. Published in Noema Magazine.