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Stefania Di Stefano

@stefaniasds.bsky.social
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Postdoc researcher in content moderation at CNAM | PhD in Intl Law @gvagrad.bsky.social | Visiting Lecturer @RGSL_LV | Coordinator @ESIL_Tech & @esilearlycareer.bsky.social | she/her Antifascista, sempre

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sooo I haven’t been around much in the past few months, but I’m back to share this 🫣 I’m very grateful for this recognition, and to everyone who accompanied me during my PhD journey!
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CPDPconferences @cpdpconferences.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The DSA-GDPR Connection: Crafting a Roadmap for Risk-Based Digital Regulation Organised by @stefaniasds.bsky.social with @stefaniasds.bsky.social, Clara Tabuteau, Suzanne Vergnolle More information: cpdp.be/127488 #CPDP2026 #CompetingVisionsSharedFutures #CPDPWorkshops
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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 19/01/2026
happy to see the final version of this Transnational Legal Theory SI on critical views of human rights in platform governance, which I co-edited with Barrie Sander, @hlahmann.bsky.social, Matt Canfield & Jelena Belic 😊 doi.org/10.1080/2041...
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Human rights in the governance of digital platforms: introduction to the special issue
Published in Transnational Legal Theory (Vol. 16, No. 4, 2025)
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Valère Ndior @hvaloche.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
regulation-tech.cnam.fr/lunch-and-le... Si ça vous branche, je parle ce mardi (en ligne) de nos recherches en cours @univbrest.bsky.social sur les chartes de réseaux sociaux adoptées par les institutions pour encadrer le comportement des agents. Merci Suzanne Vergnolle @stefaniasds.bsky.social !
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Lunch & Learn #8
Réseaux sociaux et travail : l'impact des chartes internes sur l'expression des employé.e.s, échanges avec Valère Ndior Le 6 janvier 2026 de 12h30 à 13h30 Les institutions et les entreprises prod...
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
🔥🔥🔥so looking forward to reading it!!!
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
As a native, I don’t get it either 🫠
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The "embarrassing, scandalous coda" of the Supreme Court's TikTok decision--new from @evelyndouek.bsky.social and me. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The US supreme court’s TikTok ruling is a scandal | Evelyn Douek and Jameel Jaffer
The decision means TikTok now operates under the threat that it could be forced offline with a stroke of Trump’s pen
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I’m so sorry for your loss, Sarah. Saying goodbye is one of the hardest things we will have to do, and it’s always too soon. ❤️‍🩹
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Many thanks to the editorial team at Verfassungsblog for hosting our reflections and for their generous feedback! 🔗 You can read our piece here verfassungsblog.de/dsa-transpar...
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Hack the DSA
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This negatively affects the substantive assessment of the DSA reports, making it difficult to elucidating platforms’ practices. We offer 4 practical recommendations to improve DSA reporting, revolving around harmonization, archiving, accountability for political advertising, and collaborations.
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Drawing from the main findings of the Hack the DSA workshop we held in October, we explain that the DSA’s shortcomings in its implementation of transparency obligations primarily stem from the fact that VLOPSEs are prioritizing ceremonial aspects of reporting processes over their substance.
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
A few days ago, many large online services published their latest systemic risk reports. But are these reports helpful in understanding content moderation practices? With Suzanne Vergnolle, we illustrate in @verfassungsblog.de why the DSA’s promise of transparency is failing to deliver.
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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Dr Birgit Schippers @birgitschippers.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Thanks for sharing, Stefania. This is such an important topic, which aligns with the recent interdisciplinary workshop on spatial open source intelligence that I co-hosted with my colleague @annalisaricardi.bsky.social at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social
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S-OSINT Workshop | University of Strathclyde
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Happiest birthday!!! Loki and Gaia send hugs 🎂🐾🦴
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The introductory post below provides an overview of the theme of the collection opiniojuris.org/2025/12/08/i...
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Introduction to the Symposium on Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to International Law: A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide
[Stefania Di Stefano is a postdoctoral researcher in online content moderation at Cnam, Paris.  Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi is an assistant professor of public international law at Sciences Po Law Schoo…
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Thanks also to all the contributors for such insightful reflections. Marina Aksenova, Akanksha Bisoyi, Laliv Melamed, Giuliana Rotola, PhD, @christianew.bsky.social, @chris4short.bsky.social, Pedro R. Borges de Carvalho, @jemtseva.bsky.social, Madeeha Majid, @szarmsky.bsky.social and Sabina Garahan
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Major thanks to the editorial team at OJ for supporting and hosting the series, and to my co-convenors Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, @barriesander.bsky.social, and @dimitrivdm.bsky.social for bringing this project to fruition!
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This series examines how forensic investigations are reshaping evidentiary practices and redefining accountability in international law. Our hope is that the contributions will offer readers generative insights for future engagement against genocidal and colonial violence.
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The symposium draws from our Interest Group's workshop at the @esil-sedi.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference, which featured keynote presentations by Francesca Albanese, UN SR on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, & Eyal Weizman, Founder of Forensic Architecture, chaired by Nahed Samour.
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
📢 On behalf of the ESIL Interest Group on International Law and Technology, I'm delighted to announce that today marks the launch of our new @opiniojuris.bsky.social symposium:📢 *Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to International Law – A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide*
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Oooh seems I’m doing it right? 🥲
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
📖 I am excited to share the publication of my article "International human rights law in content moderation and the risks of ‘misdiagnosing’ its limits" on Transnational Legal Theory Journal! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/
International human rights law in content moderation and the risks of 'misdiagnosing' its limits
Stefania Di Stefano
*International Law Department, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland; "Postdoctoral researcher, LISE (Cnam/CNRS), Paris, France

ABSTRACT
International human rights law (IHRL) has emerged as a dominant discursive framework for articulating and addressing issues raised by digital platforms.
Despite its potential to offer a global language to articulate and address the questions raised by digital platforms, the THRL project' has its detractors, who argue that this normative framework is inadequate to address the unique challenges that these new actors and technologies pose. Taking content moderation as a framework of analysis, this article critically engages with the criticisms aimed at IHRL in this sphere and questions whether these critiques are diagnosing an inadequacy of IHRL in content moderation. The article argues that the limits of IHRL that have been identified originate from and reflect a traditional approach to international law, and offers an alternative diagnosis: it argues that these 'limits' are in fact symptomatic of instances of change in international law.

ARTICLE HISTORY Received 17 November 2024; Accepted 31 July 2025

KEYWORDS International human rights law; content moderation; legal change; digital platforms; business and human rights
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Ramiro Álvarez Ugarte @ramiroau.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Why the voluntary approach to business and human rights sucks (and a few things that can be done about it). www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KNN8T...
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Bad cover versions of law: on the inherent limits of voluntary human rights obligations, as applied to internet companies doing content moderation
This article argues that human rights impact assessments (HRIAs) in the technological sector are inherently handicapped by the voluntary approach to business and human rights in which they are conc...
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Congrats to you as well! Very happy to see your piece out and looking forward to draw from it for my current research on the DSA and its role as a BHR instrument!
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
As the landscape for the role of human rights law in content moderation is constantly shifting (see, for instance, the latest report of Irene Khan, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression), I look forward to continuing exploring these issues!
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The article is available *Open Access* thanks to the support of the @gvagrad.bsky.social @gvagrad-law.bsky.social, where this research was conducted. 6/
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I am also grateful to @abclapham.bsky.social, who has read *many* drafts of this piece and has offered invaluable feedback and comments, as well as to Molly Land for her thoughtful comments and suggestions. Lastly, I thank the two anonymous reviewers for their thorough engagement with this work. 5/
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The article is part of the Special Issue ‘The Promise and Perils of Human Rights for Governing Digital Platforms’. I’m grateful to @barriesander.bsky.social @hlahmann.bsky.social @rachelgriffin.bsky.social, Matthew Canfield & Jelena Belic for their generous engagement with the piece and feedback.4/
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
In particular, I argue that the limits of IHRL that have been identified originate from and reflect a traditional approach to international law. I instead offer an alternative diagnosis, arguing that these ‘limits’ are in fact symptomatic of instances of change in international law. 3/
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The article engages with the main criticisms that have been aimed at the role of international human rights law in content moderation, and offers a new perspective on the value of this legal framework for addressing issues relating to platform governance. 2/
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
📖 I am excited to share the publication of my article "International human rights law in content moderation and the risks of ‘misdiagnosing’ its limits" on Transnational Legal Theory Journal! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/
International human rights law in content moderation and the risks of 'misdiagnosing' its limits
Stefania Di Stefano
*International Law Department, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland; "Postdoctoral researcher, LISE (Cnam/CNRS), Paris, France

ABSTRACT
International human rights law (IHRL) has emerged as a dominant discursive framework for articulating and addressing issues raised by digital platforms.
Despite its potential to offer a global language to articulate and address the questions raised by digital platforms, the THRL project' has its detractors, who argue that this normative framework is inadequate to address the unique challenges that these new actors and technologies pose. Taking content moderation as a framework of analysis, this article critically engages with the criticisms aimed at IHRL in this sphere and questions whether these critiques are diagnosing an inadequacy of IHRL in content moderation. The article argues that the limits of IHRL that have been identified originate from and reflect a traditional approach to international law, and offers an alternative diagnosis: it argues that these 'limits' are in fact symptomatic of instances of change in international law.

ARTICLE HISTORY Received 17 November 2024; Accepted 31 July 2025

KEYWORDS International human rights law; content moderation; legal change; digital platforms; business and human rights
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Looking forward to this discussion! Join us tomorrow from 12:30 to 13:30 Link in the thread below 🔗
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I have never used it because I thrive in chaos! Whenever I organise something, I immediately forget I have done it and usually start over looking for stuff. The amazing thing is that I keep looking for the same stuff and I’m often redirected to an open tab 🫠
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
media.tenor.com
a man in a suit and tie is saying mmm ok .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying mmm ok .
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I also have a printed copy with a ton of post-its on it but I’ve not reached the point where I carry it everywhere ahaha (and I don’t want to reach that point)
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
It’s permanently open in my browser but I keep losing it given the number of tabs currently open… I might have to do the same ahaha
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
No registration required - just click on the 🔗 in the post above and join the discussion next Tuesday from 12:30 to 13:30
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
to what extent these mechanisms truly empower users to challenge platforms’ content decisions and how decisions taken by these bodies contribute to the enforcement and effectiveness of the DSA. More info: regulation-tech.cnam.fr/lunch-learn-5/
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Lunch & Learn #5
The inner workings of an out-of-court dispute settlement body: a conversation with Thomas Hughes  Tuesday 7th October, 12:30-13:30 Curtailing illegal and harmful speech online is a major challenge. Regulatory approaches at the regional and national level seek to prevent “torrents of hate coming over the Internet”, as French
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Next week I will be moderating a session of our Lunch & Learn series! This session, in English, will focus on the inner workings of an out-of-court dispute (ODS) settlement body. With Thomas Hughes, CEO of Appeals Centre, one of the certified ODS body pursuant to art. 21 DSA, we will discuss 1/
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
In my review, I focus on how tech companies fit within the horizontal conflicts Bradford describes in her book.I argue that the shifts in companies’ alliances w/digital empires show how companies leverage horizontal battles b/w regulatory models to benefit their vertical battles vs. digital empires
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
📖 My review of Anu Bradford’s "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford University Press 2023) is out on @zaoerv.bsky.social Many thanks to @alexanderwentker.bsky.social and @erik.d-64.social for editing this timely book review symposium. 🔗 doi.org/10.17104/004...
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Many thanks to FRANCE 24 for having me, and to Suzanne Vergnolle for helping me prep for this! 5/5
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
the same administration that is strenuously presenting itself as the protector of free speech is also putting in place tactics that directly violate the First Amendment precisely to suppress political opposition. 4/
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I also illustrated how this suspension is a perfect example of jawboning and a violation of the First Amendment. Ultimately, the suspension is yet another demonstration of the weaponisation of the concept of free speech: 3/
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
In my intervention, I discussed the wider strategies currently employed in the US to stifle political opposition, underscoring how the recent suspension of Jimmy Kimmel is just the latest escalation of silencing efforts that had already started at the beginning of this second Trump administration 2/
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This morning I made my first TV appearance and exercised my right to publicly criticise the most prominent politicians and leaders. The topic: a discussion on how this very same right is currently being suppressed in the US. 1/
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Je suis la première? 😎
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
🔥🔥🔥
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