
Assistant Director of Research at @CNaM_ie.
Ireland
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Kirsty Park retweeted
📝SURVEY: Under the #DigitalServicesAct, vetted researchers will be able to access data from Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) & Search Engines (VLOSEs) to study systemic risks in the EU. We want to know your thoughts, researchers: cnam.ie/industry-and-profess…
Kirsty Park retweeted
Thank you to the European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services #ERGA for inviting @hypertextlife/@Ireland_EDMO and @muendges/ @GADMOeu to present results from the CoP Monitor report to the subgroup on Countering Disinformation.
edmohub.ie/index.php/edmo-ir…
Thanks to @justinhendrix for inviting me and @muendges on the @techpolicypress podcast to discuss our EDMO hubs' work assessing the large platform reports under the Code of Practice on Disinformation.
@FuJoMedia @Ireland_EDMO @DCU_SoC @GADMOeu
techpolicy.press/assessing-t…
Read more about the report here:
fujomedia.eu/major-platforms…
Kirsty Park retweeted
If you wanna play with the #TikTok ad library, here it is: library.tiktok.com/ads
If you are interested in Political Advertising on platforms, it's worth it.
cc @EDMO_EUI @hypertextlife @goripaula
Kirsty Park retweeted
The use of the term "young male" has been banded about. It strikes me as dehumanising. Let's call it as it is, they're children, and the state has failed them. We use these terms to wash our hands of our responsibility for them.
On air now, we look at the brain chemistry behind why so many young males are prone to anti-social behaviour @tcddublin @TCDPsychiatry #patkennynt
Kirsty Park retweeted
🔥What is AI? Here is some fresh air from @katecrawford:
Very thankful for the opportunity to present our study at @EP_GenderEqual today.
I reiterated the potential the DSA holds in addressing gender based harms on social media and the need for strong monitoring and enforcement to ensure it reaches this potential.
Dr Debbie Ging @debbieging and Dr Kirsty Park @hypertextlife appeared before the European Parliament in #Brussels today @Europarl_EN to answer MEPs questions their report on 'The impact of the use of social media on women and girls'.
Read report here: launch.dcu.ie/3DnbLK5
Kirsty Park retweeted
In a statement today, @TwitterSafety defended Twitter’s recent record on antisemitism in the face of multiple reports evidencing a rise in antisemitism on the platform by claiming antisemitic slurs have decreased on Twitter since its acquisition. xitter.cf/twittersafety/status/1…
This article is extremely misleading.
The purportedly "landmark" lawsuit concerns six Tweets, and all of those tweets were actioned, and here's exactly how:
— Each of the six Tweets were reported on Twitter, focusing on our terms of service for violations.
— Twitter's systems automatically detected that all six Tweets were either toxic or abusive.
— Twitter immediately restricted the reach of all six tweets (less than 100 impressions per Tweet).
— No person reported any of the Tweets to Twitter under its German legal compliance option.
— After the suits were filed, triggering compliance review, four Tweets were blocked in Germany and two were removed for terms of service violations.
The article also cites two misleading “reports":
— One report claims that Tweets containing anti-Semitic slurs are on the rise on Twitter since its acquisition. The truth is that the number of user impressions of anti-Semitic slurs has gone down since Twitter’s acquisition, both in total and on a per Tweet basis.
— The other report claims that Twitter failed to act on 99 percent of hateful content posted by Twitter Blue subscribers. That figure is blatantly false and Twitter makes moderation decisions with no regard for a user's Twitter Blue status.
Kirsty Park retweeted
How often do people get incorrect legal, financial or medical advise from chatbots? Defamatory content? Toxic or biased outputs? How often do bad actors use gen AI to create disinfo or CSAM?
We don't know.
The risks debate is happening in a data vacuum.
knightcolumbia.org/blog/gene…
As we launch the Digital News Report Ireland today here are some of my thoughts on the impact of AI on the future of news. #DNR23 @FuJoMedia @CNaM_ie @DCU_SoC
Future of news: Dr Kirsty Park reacts to this year’s global Digital News Report and looks at the impacts of AI on journalism as a whole... jrnl.ie/6091856t
Kirsty Park retweeted
This Wednesday, we are hosting live stream of the launch of the Reuters Digital News Report (Ireland) 2023📰📲
To follow the launch live, join us on Zoom by registering here: tinyurl.com/ReutersReportIRL
#DNR23 #DNR2023 @FuJoMedia @risj_oxford
Unfortunately, my primary and secondary education were entirely ACE. Nice to see some research confirming how poor the curriculum is in terms of science education. This article doesn't even touch on how horrendously it covers LGBT or social issues.
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I'm seeing lots about the Code of Practice along the lines of 'the EU is trying to control speech'. The CoP is all about transparency. Commitments are things like detailing policies and procedures, providing data around how they're enforced, providing more tools for users, etc...
Twitter leaves EU voluntary Code of Practice against disinformation.
But obligations remain. You can run but you can’t hide.
Beyond voluntary commitments, fighting disinformation will be legal obligation under #DSA as of August 25.
Our teams will be ready for enforcement.
You want to know how a platform with hundreds of millions of users determines what you see, what it removes, how it handles false information, how open it is about these procedures?
Well instead of getting answers you're probably going to see more silence and poop emojis.
If you want to read exactly what is covered in the Code and look at any of the signatory reports from earlier this year then check out disinfocode.eu/
Very excited that I'll be joining #AoIR2023 in Philly later this year!


















