Our report on the data provisions of the Digital Omnibus: a framework for trilogue negotiators to tell the provisions that genuinely simplify from those that would undermine the trusted environment European competitiveness depends on.

In Le Monde, Nicolas Hénin and I argue that the French state’s satirical X account, French Response, is a tactical answer to a strategic problem, and that institutions should invest in healthy, well-governed platforms so that the public follows.

In POLITICO Europe, Cori Crider and I argue that the Commission has the tools, public support, and mandate to act on Big Tech, and that trading them away in US trade talks would be a costly mistake.

I joined Sara Cooper and Tina Lee on the second episode of Full Stack Journalism, hosted by Sabrina Faramarzi, on the hidden influences built into the technology newsrooms use every day.

This document is offered as an expert contribution to ongoing discussions about the data aspects of the Digital Omnibus. Drawn from my experience in digital policy, technology strategy, and digital business, I find that the Commission’s current Omnibus proposal contains a small number of provisions that achieve genuine simplification and strengthen the reliability of the regulatory environment, alongside a larger number of provisions that, however well-intentioned, would produce outcomes contrary to the legislative aims set out in the Commission’s own framing. My purpose is to provide the framework and background information necessary for trilogue interlocutors to identify which provisions can be retained, which can be improved, and which should be reconsidered, so that the final Omnibus achieves the impact that its proponents seek.

The second Rebuild gathering, in Helsinki: a summer camp where the people building Europe’s social platforms teach each other how to build, design, and scale them.

I joined a panel at Local-First Conf 2026 in Berlin with Paul Frazee, Boris Mann, and Zenna Fiscella on what data ownership means beyond local-first software.

A two-day workshop at the University of Edinburgh bringing ecologists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and technologists together around the idea of rewilding the internet.

I joined Today with David McCullagh on RTÉ Radio 1, alongside Dr Hazel Murray of Munster Technological University, to discuss Europe’s dependence on US technology and how to reduce it.

I gave a keynote on building a thriving open social web for Europe at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung’s European Data Summit 2026 in Berlin, followed by a panel on social media as digital public infrastructure.

Two presentations at ATmosphereConf 2026 in Vancouver: the WebTiles Showcase with Ted Han, and a lightning talk on Matadata, publishing scientific data straight to AT.

I took part in Rebuild 1 in Copenhagen, the first of three 48-hour gatherings of the people building Europe’s next generation of social platforms.

I gave the opening keynote of the Greens/EFA EU Tech Stars Summit in the European Parliament, a day with the European tech ecosystem that champions democracy, privacy, and transparency.

The Democratic Tech Alliance brings MEPs from across political groups together with civil society, experts, and European businesses to build an EU tech ecosystem that serves democracy. I sit on its steering committee.

I spoke at a workshop on open protocols and public interest social media at the Internet Governance Forum in Lillestrøm, convened with the Digital Public Goods Alliance and Project Liberty Institute.

At the Digital Summit closing the Polish Presidency of the EU in Gdańsk, I joined a session on European technological sovereignty and a resilient digital public sphere co-hosted by Panoptykon, Mozilla, the Future of Technology Institute, Open Future, and the Open Markets Institute.

I took part in AI Renaissance, Metagov’s residential unconference on the political economy of AI at Bückeburg Palace: new infrastructure, business models, and institutions for public, open-source, and decentralised AI.

An EU DisinfoLab webinar with Joe McNamee on how open protocols can free us from polarising algorithms and build public interest social media.

Free Our Feeds is a campaign to build open, people-powered social media on the AT Protocol, governed in the public interest. I serve as one of its custodians.

I spoke at “Toward European Digital Independence: Building the EuroStack”, the cross-party conference in the European Parliament that launched the EuroStack initiative.

I testified before the Assemblée nationale’s commission of inquiry into France’s structural dependencies and systemic vulnerabilities in the digital sector; its report, published in July 2026, draws on the hearing.

My keynote at PublicSpaces 2026 in Amsterdam: the current state of tech can feel disheartening, but we have every reason to hope — and a strategy to bring democracy to the internet.

Interviewed (in French) by Mathilde Saliou for Next about Eurosky, the European social web project, and what sovereignty means beyond the Silicon Valley model.

In Project Syndicate: the AWS and Azure outages show the threat US cloud dominance poses to Europe, and why the EU must dismantle the entrenched monopolies undermining its tech sovereignty.

Quoted in the BBC on Europe’s dependence on three US firms for 70% of its cloud computing, and why the risk of a US “kill switch” should be taken seriously.

Quoted in the BBC, as one of Free Our Feeds’ custodians, on why Bluesky’s infrastructure must not stay in the hands of a single operator.

In Project Syndicate: how the Bluesky model — public protocols rather than private platforms — could restore the original promise of the internet.

Our report on the search/browser levy — the little-known system that funds browsers, enforces a search monopoly, and defunds the rest of the web — and how to reform it.

With Joshua Tan, Brandon Jackson, and Diane Coyle, a policy brief for a Public AI Company: an Airbus-style partnership among middle powers to build frontier AI in the public interest.

The EuroStack pitch document: why Europe must join and build its own digital infrastructures, from chips to data to compute to connectivity, and how to start.

Browsers are critical public infrastructure that no one pays for. The search/browser levy that funds them has become a de facto private government of the web; this report documents it, analyses its harms, and lays out a toolbox to place it under public-interest governance.

A policy brief proposing a Public AI Company: a coordinated public-private partnership among middle powers, modelled on Airbus, to build frontier AI that serves shared economic and security interests.

The pitch document that launched EuroStack: joining and building the logical and physical infrastructures — from chips to data to compute to connectivity — that secure Europe’s role in competitive digital value chains.

A panel on sovereignty and infrastructure with Cristina Caffarra, Axel Voss, Marian Gläser, Jonas Andrulis, Andy Yen, and Ivan De Lastours.

We need to radically strengthen the transnational nature of multistakeholder digital infrastructure governance.

What potential remedies now stand a chance of establishing competition in search? Cristina Caffarra and Robin Berjon consider the question.

How principled advertising on Wikipedia could fund a democratic digital future.

The launch conference for the Eurosky project.

I spoke at the Summit about the infrastructure needed to support sovereignty.

Europe has experienced a sense of losing control over its digital ecosystem and economic considerations, coupled with a perception that its innovation in the technology world is lagging. In this foundational episode, Chloe Teevan and Gautam Kamath explore the critical concept of digital sovereignty with Robin Berjon and why it demands attention from policymakers worldwide.

Our digital sphere is authoritarian and as the internet is infrastructure for society this makes our world authoritarian too. In this talk, I explain how to use open protocols, pro-democracy technical architectures, and our understanding of digital infrastructure to build democratic social media.

An evening for decision-makers, journalists, patrons, scientists, open-source advocates, and citizens who wish to learn, reflect, and take concrete action toward developing a European digital space that is sovereign and resilient to geopolitical disruptions, at the Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris Île-de-France (CNRS).

An expert consultation from the Council of Europe on media regulation and social media.

The authoritarians are winning, we can all see that. It wouldn’t be the worst thing if the pro-democracy camp stopped being naive about social media.

I have often found myself confounded by the behaviour of some people who seem impervious to reality — like the people still on X today. Here, I try to understand what grounds their epistemology and its consequences, and what that means for the rest of us. Being committed to a better future is where genuine seriousness is, and that seriousness can only be approached in a spirit of embodied, determined, relentless hope.

Talking in terms of horizontal or vertical interoperability is too constrictive a mental model to understand what interoperability does. Doing better matters, and it’s right within reach.

We are facing a coordinated international fascist movement that works with explicit backing from Moscow, Washington, and tech monopolies, and is propagating itself through its own media apparatus. Yet people who claim to side with democracy keep doing work to support Fascintern media because they misunderstand how it works. This needs to change.

Digital sovereignty has a bad reputation. In internet governance circles, sovereignty is considered awkward enough to be referred to by as the “s-word.” It is often associated with misguided attempts at returning to the era of national champions, like building a French search engine or a European Google, or worse with the eternal boogeyman that is the “splinternet.” It doesn’t have to be this way!

An expert consultation from the Council of Europe on media regulation and social media.

The counter-disinformation community meets for #Disinfo2026 in Vilnius, Lithuania.