Date: Thursday, April 6th
Time: 12:30-1:30PM ET
You are invited to Advancing Platform Research through the EU Digital Services Act hosted by The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
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This panel will explore the tools the EU’s
Digital Services Act (DSA) will offer to international researchers to better
understand online platform decisions and systemic risks emanating from their
operation. The DSA places far-reaching accountability measures on online
platforms regarding their content moderation decisions and – where very large
online platforms are concerned – the potential systemic risks posed by their
operation. However, the DSA will only reach its potential if platform
researchers, journalists and civil society make active use of these accountability
provisions to analyze platform decisions, related systemic risks, and the
effectiveness of any measures to mitigate them. This panel will bring together
experts from EU policy, strategic litigation, and content moderation
transparency to explore the opportunities of the DSA for advancing our
knowledge about platforms and encourage researchers to enforce their newly
gained rights of access to platform data.
Speakers
- Felix Reda
(he/they) has focused his political work on copyright reform and platform
regulation as a Member of the European Parliament 2014-2019. He leads the
strategic litigation project control ©, designed to strengthen communication
freedoms in relation to copyright law, with German fundamental rights NGO
Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF). Felix is an affiliate at the Berkman
Klein Center.
- Malte Spitz: Malte Spitz (he/him) is co-founder and
Secretary General of Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF)/ Society for Civil
Rights, that defends fundamental and human rights by legal means. He is a
member of the National Regulatory Control Council (NKR) since 2022. Malte Spitz
was a Green Party politician
from 2006 to 2022. In the 2021 coalition negotiations at the federal level, he
chaired the "Digital Innovations and Digital Infrastructure"
transition team for the Greens.
- Adam Holland: Adam Holland (he/they) has been the Project
Manager for the Lumen database since 2012. Originally formed in 2002 as Chilling
Effects, Lumen collects, studies and faciliates research on takedown notices
and other legal removal requests concerning online content. In his role as
project manager, Adam liaises with the platforms that contribute data to Lumen,
with the researchers and others who make use of Lumen data, and works closely
with Lumen PI Chris Bavitz, Lumen Research Fellow Shreya Tewari, and the BKC
technology team to continue to improve the database, solidify its unique position
as the Internet’s only multi-platform aggregator of takedown notice data, and
offer the knowledge it has gained through over two decades working in this
space.
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