This paper examines how platform companies seek to lobby and otherwise influence
policymakers during heated regulatory episodes. While there has been some valuable …

The AI development community is increasingly making use of hosting intermediaries, such
as Hugging Face, which provide easy access to user-uploaded models and training data …

This article argues that public contestability is a critical attribute of governance arrangements
designed to align AI deployment with the public interest. Mechanisms to collectively contest …

This essay provides an overview of the current state of content moderation on social media
platforms. The question the essay addresses is why there are a number of unresolved …

For almost a decade now, scholarship in and beyond the ACM FAccT community has been
focusing on novel and innovative ways and methodologies to audit the functioning of …

This essay examines how Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are becoming more integral to
international affairs by affecting how global governors exert power and pursue digital …

The social sciences, and especially theories about communication and digital media, have
been dominated by the Global North. This paper attempts to redress this imbalance by …

Recent evidence indicates that the launch and establishment of firms such as Uber and
other similar ride-hailing platforms, also known as Transportation Network Companies …

The relationship between religion and democracy is ambivalent, with religion either able to
strengthen democracy or significantly threaten it. With the" digital turn" in religion and the …

The article shows snapshots from the history of fake news and terms and concepts to use in
the field of information disorder (fake news, disinformation, misinformation) based on a …