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Robert Gorwa

@gorwa.ca
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Researching global tech policy at the WZB Berlin. 📕: The Politics of Platform Regulation - How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation (out now OA 🔓) academic.oup.com/book/56385

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Clara Iglesias Keller @claraigk.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The PlatGov Conference is back! What a joy! I have learned so much from this research community. Join us this year 👇 @robyncaplan.bsky.social @gorwa.ca @ameliehldt.bsky.social @naomiappelman.bsky.social @deeliu97.bsky.social
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Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca · 05/02/2025
Meticulous & chilling piece from Alex de Waal on the international moral disgrace that is the Gaza famine: ‘The level of urban starvation in Gaza has not been seen since the Dutch Hunger Winter and the siege of Leningrad’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Alex de Waal · How to Measure Famine
During the past year, as starvation started to appear in Gaza, Israel has clashed with the United Nations and aid...
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Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca · 06/01/2025
Many are fleeing major platforms for services like this one. I have an essay on two great books (by @paulgowder.bsky.social + @ntnsndr.in) that offer historically-rooted visions for democratic, social networks that we need to consider in the era of Bluesky and beyond... jacobin.com/2024/12/inte...
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Can Democracy Survive Online?
The dream of a democratic web has turned into a nightmare of moderation crises, content mines, and billionaire overlords. Rebuilding digital spaces for meaningful participation in a post-X future will...
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Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca · 02/12/2024
hey look! big thanks to @justinhendrix.bsky.social for having me for this interview
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Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca · 29/11/2024
‘Part of the concern I have with Bluesky presently is thus that people are gaining the impression that it's a decentralized system in ways that it is not’ Really helpful technical analysis from one of the lead ActivityPub devs dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec...
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How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
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michael veale @michae.lv · 27/11/2024
maybe it’s a good time to plug the work of @gorwa.ca and me on hugging face’s moderation practices… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Moderating model marketplaces: platform governance puzzles for AI intermediaries
The AI development community is increasingly making use of hosting intermediaries, such as Hugging Face, which provide easy access to user-uploaded models and training data. These model marketplace...
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Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca · 25/11/2024
I have a new report out w. @cendemtech.bsky.social looking at the latest in automated content moderation for the live-streaming context. Live video is hard to analyze, and - importantly - can’t be hashed and matched to existing infrastructures eg for CSAM detection. How are companies responding?
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Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca · 25/11/2024
Hi all - freshly arrived to share a few new bits and bobs. The first is a blog post in the recently published CELE symposium on informal platform regulation / jawboning / government threats: observatoriolegislativocele.com/political-ca...
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Political Capital and Informal Platform Governance - CELE
Political Capital and Informal Platform Governance It’s widely understood by close observers of platform governance and content moderation — but perhaps less widely mentioned in the interdisciplinary...
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