Diyi Liu

How Vietnam and the US Differ in Using State Power to Regulate TikTok Vietnam and the US are taking sharply different approaches to regulating TikTok, exposing tradeoffs between state power, user privacy, and national security.

While the US pushed TikTok into a sale over national security concerns, Vietnam fined the platform for misleading users and is tightening control over how it operates at home, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Lam Le.

This figure (and the full article) tells you a lot about the grip the tech sector and its lobbyists have on UK government thinking and just how hard it is for civil society to get its voice heard. #onlinesafetyact 👇🏻

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thanks for joining us and for chairing the session!

We can’t wait to see familiar and new faces alike. Register here: ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

📌 December 1–2, 2025 | Online

PlatGovNet2025 is around the corner! This year’s edition features a vibrant program of research and three inspiring keynote speakers who will explore the transitions, tensions, and new realities shaping platform governance: platgov.net/assets/site/...

Check out this interview 🙌🙌🙌🙌 !!

We previously raised the need for more contextual data access around the moderation workforce in our submission to the DSA Article 40 public consultation. Here’s the full analysis that motivated our recommendation👇

🚣🚣 Only two weeks left to submit your abstract to this year’s PlatGovNet 🚣🚣

Exclusive: White House launches TikTok account with Trump saying 'I am your voice' The White House launched an official TikTok account on Tuesday, taking advantage of the short video app's more than 170 million U.S. users to spread the messages of President Donald Trump.

Gosh, good thing there's no reason to think that the platform has any incentive to artificially increase the reach of this account or in any other way bend the rules

www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

🏆 Thrilled to share that our HateDay paper has received an Outstanding Paper Award at #ACL2025

Big thanks to my wonderful co-authors: @deeliu97.bsky.social, Niyati, @computermacgyver.bsky.social, Sam, Victor, and @paul-rottger.bsky.social!

Thread 👇and data avail at huggingface.co/datasets/man...

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Thanks Blake! That’s very kind of you!!

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WhatsApp backs Apple in its legal row with the UK over user data The messaging app says the UK government's demands over data access could set a

BBC News - WhatsApp backs Apple in its legal row with the UK over user data - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sadly I’m going to miss the #ICA25, but really honoured to be listed as one of the top student papers of @ica-clp.bsky.social (!) Definitely check out the other presentations of the session if you're around. My slides are also live now: doi.org/10.1177/2056...

It was a really fun conversation and thanks again for hosting me!

FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies Business-guidance content published during the Biden administration has been removed from the Federal Trade Commission website.

SCOOP: More than 300 FTC blogs published under FTC Chair Lina Khan disappeared this morning. They included posts critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI.

www.wired.com/story/federa...

Special 02 Pt.1|Beyond TikTok Ban: States, Corporations, and Individuals in Global Digital Politics - Overreactology (@overreactology) English transcript of the 2nd episode of the TikTok special (Part 1). Original soundtrack in Mandarin Chinese: 1:05:48.

🎙️TikTok Special 02 out! As digital infrastructures become battlegrounds for geopolitics, it’s crucial to go beyond TikTok and navigate the complexities in the digital age. Join us with @deeliu97.bsky.social to uncover the power dynamics shaping global digital politics.

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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

OII | Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop This workshop aims to facilitate dialogues between UK scholars and approaches from the Global South in the field of Internet and Data Studies.

Registration open and Call for Abstracts, Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies workshop. University of Oxford, March 25-26. www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

New blog! @oiioxford.bsky.social doctoral researchers @deeliu97.bsky.social, @manueltonneau.bsky.social and Juliette Zaccour propose a series of recommendations for effective data access and data governance in light of the EU’s Digital Service Act. Read the full article: bit.ly/49DJyhn

Wrapping up the year with a Behind the Scenes seminar hosted by @pgmt.bsky.social Perfect timing to share some reflections on my thesis methodology and hear critique/thoughts from the community. Would love to have you there!

Using my first post here to proudly share impressive work led by @manueltonneau.bsky.social! Based on a representative TwitterDay dataset, this study has important implications for balancing costs and necessity of hate speech moderation at scale. Do check out the thread, the paper & HateDay: