Naomi Shiffman

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In Critical Condition – How To Stabilize Researcher Data Access? | TechPolicy.Press Mark Scott and LK Seiling discuss the struggle for researcher access to social media data and an alternative future where transparency is seen as a civic good.

Two years into Europe’s Digital Services Act, data access for researchers is on life support, write Mark Scott and LK Seiling. Yet an alternative future is possible—one built on openness, interoperability, and platforms that treat data access as a civic and scientific good.

Not sure about everyone else, but I’m encouraged today (elated?) that we learned last night that we can beat candidates/parties of bullshit, AI slop, corruption, and authoritarianism without emulating them and without tacking towards a false center between us and them.

Just thinking back to how I was feeling a year ago.

This is better.

Normal people are just sick to fucking death of the cruelty and meanness

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.

Who can take advantage of the DSA’s protections for researchers? Ultimately, protecting legitimate online research overall will require navigating legal barriers beyond the DSA, writes Daphne Keller.
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If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Introducing GreenEarth We're building advanced open source algorithms for social media

GreenEarth is creating open source AI-driven recommender infrastructure for BlueSky. Type a prompt, see your feed change. We are here for the users, the builders, the dreamers. Join us.
greenearthsocial.substack.com/p/introducin...

From Dashboard to Data Acquisition | Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics (IDDP) | Columbian College of Arts & Sciences | The George Washington University Researchers increasingly require data from social media companies to better understand the information environment, technology product design, & social issues.

🖥️ 📈 The SMM market thrives on secrecy. Some tools have privileged access, most scrape, few disclose. We need standards that put the public interest first. Read the report by @cmilez.bsky.social, @brandonsilverman.bsky.social, and @annalenhart.bsky.social
at iddp.gwu.edu/dashboard-data-acquisition

"Because the wolfhound century is on us now, and we have to choose how to face it."

I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.

New report out from IDDP on using pervasive data ethically in research — I was grateful for the opportunity to contribute. Congrats to @annalenhart.bsky.social!

🚨 Workshop update 🚨

We're excited to announce that @naomishiffman.bsky.social will be joining to share her experience with designing and passing implementable tech policy.

Our half-day agenda is up (ci-x-tp.github.io) and early registration for @acmci.bsky.social ends on 23 June — don’t miss out!

A really excellent, clear guide with concrete scenarios and potential alternatives to AI.

This new report from @brandonsilverman.bsky.social and @naomishiffman.bsky.social is great. It documents numerous concrete cases in which platform transparency (or scraping-based research) has had significant real-world impact.

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The Case for Transparency | Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics (IDDP) | Columbian College of Arts & Sciences | The George Washington University This report makes the 'case for transparency' by presenting a series of influential social media research efforts.

"Platform transparency has had significant positive impact for public awareness and civic engagement, academic understanding [of] platforms, government and regulatory action [and for] platforms themselves" @naomishiffman.bsky.social & @brandonsilverman.bsky.social write iddp.gwu.edu/case-transpa...

New report out from @brandonsilverman.bsky.social and myself making the case for platform transparency and the ways it leads to real-world change— not only in the public sphere, but also for the platforms themselves. Check it out!

This level of transparency about content moderation decisions, and specifically about the recall vs precision tradeoff, should be a model for other platforms.

@jacobsilver.bsky.social is here, everyone say hi!

Excited to share a paper led by @lageneralista.bsky.social and @samlai.bsky.social that I was lucky enough to co-author! https://carnegieendowment.org/2023/05/18/operational-reporting-by-online-services-proposed-framework-pub-89776