We can be sure this view cannot prevail as 🇮🇪official position given its support for 🇪🇺 « secure human-centred digital ecosystem, where citizens are empowered, and businesses prosper » … can’t we 🧐

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According to documents reviewed by Reuters, Meta considered focusing its scam reduction efforts “on countries where it feared near-term regulatory action”—suggesting self-interest may be a stronger motivator than concern for its users.

With @socialcohesiontech.bsky.social we are working at Build Up on #polarizationfootprint

Our answer to the specific question of what systemic risks online platforms pose to peace in EU & beyond, & how conflict mitigation can be part of EU approach to tech governance

📑Report coming soon!

Indeed + the structure of attention economy also makes it more difficult to forge consensus between warring parties

Why Art.34 of DSA obliges risk assessment on civic discourse/FoI & why #digitalomnibus false trade off between competitiveness & regulation must be rejected www.ft.com/content/af6c...

Debate highlighted how EU systemic risk management obligations for social media (Digital Services Act #DSA) & AI align with 🇪🇺 conflict prevention & peace mediation

@eplo-network.bsky.social to step up engagement in policy debates around platform governance and AI safety

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💬 Rashmi Thapa EC Foreign Policy Instrument service responded by highlighting multiple ways the EU supports infrastructures for global governance of online spaces that are human centred 🌍🤖🌐

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💬 Lyndcey Oriko Senior Program Officer at Kenya's National Cohesion & Integration Commission, brought the crucial dimension of WHY & HOW this is necessary for multistakeholder conversations between regulators, civil society & business seeking safe online spaces where rights are upheld and protected

💬 Caleb Gichuhi, Build Up made the polarisation footprint study in Kenya come alive

🇰🇪 it has succeeded as a methodology with results that will allow a discussion with tech companies about
🐻‍❄️polarisation
😡 incitement
🌪️disinformation

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💬 Helena Puig, Build Up - why a metric of prevalance of polarising content online? If we only talk about specific incidents we are trapped in logic of take down of individual posts: if we discuss prevalance we can get to the issue of platform design & systemic risk

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@howtobuildup Build Up's 🔥panel at this year's EU Community of Practice on Peace Mediation in Brussels asked how a #polarizationfootprint can concretely help EU peace mediators address online polarisation as a conflict driver

#EUCoP25

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