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Catalina Goanta

@cgoanta.bsky.social
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Associate prof in private law & tech (Utrecht University) & PI ERC Research Stg HUMANads '22-'27 @goanta@someone.elses.computer

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DSA40 Data Access Collaboratory @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
🚨 First DSA Art. 40(4) data access decisions are in! Coimisiún na Meán has sent out its first responses to researcher applications. Did you apply for DSA data access? Log it in the DSA40 Tracker (takes ~10 min): www.soscisurvey.de/DSA40applica... Your input helps build researcher support tools!

The DSA40 Data Access Tracker
Keep track of your access application

We call upon researchers and other non-profit organisations to share their data access requests with us, so that we can

- inform the public about the success rate of  access requests
- develop guidance for successful access requests
- inform ongoing regulatory processes
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
⚡ DSA Article 40 data access decisions are rolling in, and ours (with A. Iamnitchi & T. Bertaglia) was rejected (we applied on day 1). With help from the Dutch & Irish Digital Service Coordinators, we learned a lot - reflections up on the @dsaobservatory.bsky.social) shorturl.at/lGoFF
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If at first you don’t succeed: Reflections on a rejected Art. 40 DSA data access request - DSA Observatory
By Catalina Goanta & Anda Iamnitchi Article 40 of the Digital Services Act was hailed as a breakthrough for platform research. But what does the the procedure look like in practice? Drawing on their o...
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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Wooo wooo ! you can now pre order and request inspection copies of Law Policy and the Internet, 2nd edn! w me, @mooseabyte.bsky.social and @cgoanta.bsky.social eds and an all star line up! Lots of AI but guaranteed no AI slop! Out August! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/law-polic...
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Law, Policy, and the Internet
This innovative textbook edited by international experts in technology law and policy provides a comprehensive and accessible guide into the fast-evolving lands…
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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
NEW: As the EU starts investigating Grok over sexualized images, the harmful "nudify" ecosystem that targets women is getting even more dangerous. A review of 50+ deepfake sites shows they nearly all offer image-to-video generators, producing highly explicit outputs. One offers 60+ sexual scenarios
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Deepfake ‘Nudify’ Technology Is Getting Darker—and More Dangerous
Sexual deepfakes continue to get more sophisticated, capable, easy to access, and perilous for millions of women who are abused with the technology.
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Sebastien Fassiaux successfully defended his PhD thesis @upf.edu "Preserving Consumer Autonomy through the EU Regulation of Artificial Intelligence-Driven Marketing", and the jury (including myself) was very excited about his DSA/conpro/competition law angle!
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European Law Open @europeanlawopen.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
New issue dropped! Thanks to @sarahvahed.bsky.social @cgoanta.bsky.social @koenvanzon.bsky.social @whommes.bsky.social @historikarin.bsky.social @whommes.bsky.social @lolaavril.bsky.social and the others for some brilliant work. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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European Law Open: Volume 4 - Issue 3 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - European Law Open - Volume 4 - Issue 3
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Marijn Sax @marijnsax.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
"Hanging with the T-Bros" youtu.be/QWT_A_7Jh9Y?... (Who else than @cgoanta.bsky.social introduced me to T-Bros influencers)
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🧶New influencer case in NL: the Court of Gelderland ordered a food influencer to pay back €38,642.01 in welfare benefits (bijstand) received while the influencer was also getting brand deals (mostly barters). uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=E... 3 important takeaways:
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Rechtspraak.nl - Zoeken in uitspraken
Zoeken in uitspraken
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The White House is doing influencer press briefings now and it speaks volume as to why journalists can’t be replaced www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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The White House is now holding press briefings specifically for MAGA influencers
‘So what direction do you advise me to go into?’ one MAGA media personality asked during the first ‘official influencer’ briefing that Karoline Leavitt held this week
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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 14/03/2025
Had a fantastic time at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social last week. It was great to have discussions on the very timely topic of political influencers with @hannakainen.bsky.social, Johanna Arnesson, @taylorannabell.bsky.social and Romanian streamer Faiãr. Thank you for having us @cgoanta.bsky.social!
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I’ve posted a number of threads over the past couple of weeks explaining the framework I’ve developed around disordered discourse and its outcomes. But I also want to explain why that framework is useful, beyond just mapping the problem or explaining how we got here.
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Amsterdam Law School @uvalawschool.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
@naomiappelman.bsky.social promoveert op het proefschrift: 'Contesting Online Exclusion. #EU-regulation of content moderation through an agonistic lens' op 28 februari. Haar promotoren zijn prof. dr. N. Helberger en prof. @jvh.bsky.social. bit.ly/4jYc8i5
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Contesting Online Exclusion. EU-regulation of content moderation through an agonistic lens
Naomi Appelman will defend the dissertation 'Contesting Online Exclusion. EU-regulation of content moderation through an agonistic lens'. Supervisors are Prof. N. Helberger and Prof. J.V.J. van Hoboken.
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CCSN @weareccsn.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
When kids become their parents' content on TikTok! 🤳✨ Check out this timely paper by our community members @tomdivon.bsky.social @taylorannabell.bsky.social @cgoanta.bsky.social 👇
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 18/02/2025
X raises its Premium+ subscription to $40 per month, or $395 per year, after raising it to $22 per month in December 2024, following Grok3's launch (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
New publication! 🚨 Together with my brill team (@taylorannabell.bsky.social & @cgoanta.bsky.social), we explore how parents turn kids into commodities on TikTok, diving into the nuances of *kidfluencers* & raising legal questions about platform governance. See🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Trump White House redefines ‘the press’: “Whether you are a TikTok content creator, a blogger, a podcaster … if you are producing legitimate news content, you will be allowed to apply for press credentials to this White House” Seems small, huge ramifications! www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/whit...
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White House will reserve front-row seats in press briefings for influencers, podcasters, and others in “new media”
When she took the podium for the first time on Tuesday afternoon, Karoline Leavitt became the youngest White House press secretary in history. The 27-year-old New Hampshire native is the sixth working...
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Regulation vibe shift: adopting rules to hold predatory practices by highly powerful tech companies accountable is ‘screwing’ with US industry. The Brussels effect had a good run, platform governance will now likely go back to its initial US colonialism. www.politico.eu/article/zuck...
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Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies
Comparing the bloc’s antitrust penalties to tariffs, the Meta boss argued that Brussels is “screwing with” American industry.
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Jerry Spanakis 🟥 @gerasimoss.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
🎉 Our paper "Influencer self-disclosure practices on Instagram: A multi-country longitudinal study" is officially out 🔗 shorturl.at/v2znK Led by @thalesbertaglia.bsky.social w/Adriana Iamnitchi, @cgoanta.bsky.social we analyzed 1M+ Instagram posts (2010–2020) from 400 influencers across 🇺🇸🇧🇷🇳🇱🇩🇪 >>>
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Our legal computational paper led by @ThalesBertaglia w @gerasimoss & @2late2matter is out in Online Social Networks & Media! We look at self-disclosure practices by 400 influencers from 4 countries (NL, DE, BR & US) in 1m Instagram posts across 10 years. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The Romanian Constitutional Court decision in the first of its kind annulment of the presidential elections of 2024 has now been motivated 🧵 s.iw.ro/gateway/g/Zmls…
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
RO president declassified intelligence reports about the presidential elections. Apart from the expected dimension of Russian interference & bots, TikTok confirmed one account paid €391k to other accounts supporting Calin Georgescu #monetization hotnews.ro/wp-content/upl…
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Laura Aade @laade.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Wow, the e-commerce strategy of TikTok (US) is reaching a whole new level and it's WILD. Here's an example: this influencer is sharing some hair growth tips - no disclosed brand partnerships, no e-commerce features embedded to her content...or so it seems 👀 1/
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Chris Marsden @chrismarsden.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
'EU upcoming Regulation on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising (TTPA) introduces significant new legal uncertainties... key technical guidance may not be finalized until (too late). Google will stop serving political advertising in the EU' before Oct'25 blog.google/around-the-g...
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An update on political advertising in the European Union
Google will stop serving political advertising in the EU ahead of new regulation in October 2025.
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The Romanian presidential elections i.a. the fake account networks of the most popular candidate (independent & coming out of nowhere) will be a test of defining systemic risks under art 34(1)(c) of the Digital Services Act (negative effects on elections) www.politico.eu/article/elec...
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TikTok CEO summoned to European Parliament over role in shock Romania election
The role of Chinese-owned TikTok is under scrutiny following the shock victory of a far-right candidate in Romania’s election.
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Who were the biggest anti-Trump #resistance influencers born out of Trump's first presidency? Looking for people who became big on Twitter through posting resistance/anti Trump content.
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
So it seems there was a candidate behind this campaign and for many other reasons he was most voted in the first round. Very interesting & scary: a rather artificial engagement campaign led to virality that influenced TikTok’s *search bar* and further amplified the candidate 🫠
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Alexander Hohlfeld @alhohlfeld.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We tried to analyze the ad ecosystem of TikTok with the data available in February: tiktok-audit.com/blog/2024/ad...
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🛒 Ads, Ads, Ads | auditing TikTok
How the for you feed is clogged with ads.
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Laura Aade @laade.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Wrapped up the day with a guest lecture on influencers, social commerce, and consumer protection (Taylor's version) with the WONDERFUL students of @elibietti.bsky.social. Reminded me how much I love teaching and *how much I learn from students* 🫶
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Laura Aade @laade.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Today was truly a special day of my research stay in the US 💫 I had such a blast presenting my draft article on the regulation of e-commerce on social media under the DSA at @nusl.bsky.social. Forever grateful to @elibietti.bsky.social & @lexlanham.bsky.social for making it happen!
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Regulators around the world
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Curious about how a basic political influencer campaign looks like? I scraped TikTok and analyzed 40 videos made for the upcoming Romanian presidential elections. humanads.eu/influencers-...
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Influencers & elections: An Eastern European campaign blueprint | Human Ads ERC
A brief empirical analysis of an influencer marketing campaign from November 2024 for the presidential elections in Romania
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Disclosing branded content is seen as mainly an influencer problem, but not enough attention is paid to the platform mediation of disclosures. In this new paper with amazing @taylorannabell.bsky.social & @laade.bsky.social, we focus on what platforms say they do/do with branded content.
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Laura Aade @laade.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Our publication on the disclosure practices of influencers from a platform perspective has been published in the @PolicyR and available open access! This type of collaboration is truly the reason why I love interdisciplinary research so much @TaylorAnnabell @CatalinaGoanta 🫶✨
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
AI is not always hallucinating… Grok, owned by Musk, concludes: “Based on various analyses, social media sentiment, and reports, Elon Musk has been identified as one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X since he acquired the platform” fortune.com/2024/11/14/g...
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Elon Musk's AI turns on him, labels him 'one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X'
His posts, it added, “can have real-world consequences."
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Richard Fitch @tudorcook.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
"this is fine" British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
A medieval manuscript illustration from the British Library royal ms 20 a ii f3r.
Image shows a medieval king in a green gown and wearing a crown. He is stood within a burning castle with arms in the air and a look of 'oh dear' on his face
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The sixth edition of the Natural Legal Language Processing workshop is live on YT! Join the NLP community that was doing impressive research on LLMs before they were cool www.youtube.com/live/tHM__C0...
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Ok I guess this time around the Twitter exodus is real
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
✨With the EU Commission & the HUMANads ERC, in the past 6 months Sophie Bishop (Leeds) & I have been developing the 1st European legal training for influencers/content creators & EU consumer law. We're launching the Influencer Legal Hub on 16 October. Join us! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · 24/07/2023
What have you done, Jack
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · 16/07/2023
Our ERC StG #HUMANads project website is up and fully updated with all our publications, event organization and participation. Can't wait to share even more resources shortly! Have a look if you want to see what kept us busy this past year 👇 humanads.eu
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · 12/07/2023
Remember the ChatGPT fake case law? These are ChatGPT fake footnotes in a university admissions essay. When confronted in the interview, the applicant even described one of the "publications" at length to my face, which was impressive yet suitable for a different study (drama)
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · 08/07/2023
Thanks to Lindsay Dodgson from Insider for revealing this UGC TikTok scam hurting creators & consumers. UGC contracted via Upwork uses ‘authentic’ stories to scam consumers to buy overpriced jewelry: www.insider.com/trugala-tiktok-jewe…
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A viral TikTok jewelry scam is sucking in customers with 'revenge' videos by creators who say they t...
Customers of Trugala, Deraldi, and Vulosa were lured in with too-good-to-be-true discount codes, promoted by faked revenge videos.
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