Mark Scott
Senior Resident Fellow, Atlantic Council’s Democracy + Tech Initiative. Weekly newsletter: www.digitalpolitics.co
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- I see my Bluesky feed is (legitimately) filled with anger about Meta's decision to pull back on moderating content — much of which is divisive and harmful, if not illegal. I stand by what I wrote on Jan 6: Platforms are now done with content moderation www.digitalpolitics.co/newsletter02...
- Time for me to predict the future: here's what to expect on digital policymaking in 2025. Social media oversight will become (even more) political; AI lobbying will finally start to pay off; politicians' illiteracy on tech will be felt globally Happy Festivus! www.digitalpolitics.co/newsletter022/
- Europe's new social media laws are getting their first real test. And it's coming from Romania. After the country's Constitutional Court annulled the 1st round of presidential elections, many are calling on the #DigitalServicesAct to figure out what exactly happened. That would be a mistake, imo
- European politicians are grilling TikTok officials about the platform's role in the #Romanian presidential election. (Watch here multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...). Let's be very clear: there is no evidence that Georgescu was artificially amplified on TikTok to win first round election
