Assistant Director of Research at @CNaM_ie.

Ireland
Joined September 2008
📝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…
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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…
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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
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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
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Can I suggest this little change?
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD
@LuizaJarovsky24 Jul 2023
🔥What is AI? Here is some fresh air from @katecrawford:
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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.
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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…
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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
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The Spotify economy is wild. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n09/…
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The sweet sweet taste of I-told-you-so, ChatGPT edition. On Apr. 25, 2023, OpenAI announced it would introduce new ways to manage private data in ChatGPT. Users can now turn off chat history, and choose which conversations can be used to train AI models.openai.com/blog/new-ways-to-…
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Big day for the Digital Services Act (DSA). Here's the full list of 17 Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and two Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs) They all have at least 45 million EU monthly active users Despite many contrary predictions, Twitter made the cut! 1/3
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i've officially stumbled upon the weirdest thing i've ever seen. on a spotify radio this week, 1 song annoyingly kept playing. except every time I looked, it was a different song name and artist entirely. so I started keeping track. here's 49 of them. open.spotify.com/playlist/3w…
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1) As someone who was (briefly) in charge of the Twitter Media team - the group tasked with getting high profile people onto Twitter, and verification - AND as one of the few ever to voluntarily give up the blue check, I want to try to articulate how risky this policy change is.
Welp guess my blue ✔️ will be gone soon cause if you know me I ain’t paying the 5. 🤷🏾‍♂️
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Current stipends for PhD researchers in Ireland just aren't enough. Ireland is ranked LAST GLOBALLY in terms of PhD Stipend to cost of living ratio, scoring 0.58. Meaning the current ANNUAL PhD stipend covers living costs for less than 7 months. @DeptofFHed #PGRsDeserveBetter
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PhD researchers across Ireland are protesting today because: "Among all Western European countries, Ireland has the highest avg. tuition fees, tied highest avg. rent costs, but is the only country where PhD researchers are paid less than minimum wage." #PGRsDeserveBetter
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The hypocrisy of banning #tiktok and letting other big tech companies off free. Essay by ⁦@JuliaAngwin⁩ well worth the read. nytimes.com/2023/03/20/opini…
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FuJo researchers @hypertextlife, @debbieging, Shane Murphy and @_JCMcGrath_ have published a study for the European Parliament which examines the impact of social media on women and girls. @DCU_SoC @HumanitiesDCU
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Truly amazing that anyone could look at the entire history of men and still be like, "You know who has never created any sort of problem?"
Justin Wolfers
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"I'm not saying 12 white men would have avoided this mess, but..." Genuinely disgusting take from the @WSJ opinion page.
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Last week, TikTok announced their new researcher API, whose TOS presents many challenges for researchers. In a new @techpolicypress piece, I argue that the problem is not TikTok, but that data access for research is up to the whim of platforms 1/ techpolicy.press/the-problem…
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