Currently reading Google's DSA transparency report. Some (unorganised) first impressions below:

First, the internal appeals seems to be succesful. For starters, it's actually being used by thousands of users (DMCA counternotice *this is not*), and over two thirds are succesful! I wonder if we'll see those numbers rise as users familiarise themselves with this new process...

What's more - appeals fast. The median time to resolve appeals is <1 day on most services.

📢New draft paper 📢

"The Soap Box as a Black Box: Regulating transparency in social media recommender systems"

Very excited to share since this is a real passion project of mine. A quick summary below /1

osf.io/preprints/lawa… Calls for transparency in social media recommenders aren't just academic theory anymore, they're widespread in recent European policymaking. There is a *lot* happening in this space, but I think we're missing key opportunities.