Swapneel M.
swapneel.bsky.social
Swapneel M.
@swapneel.bsky.social
Postdoc at Boston University and MIT. Building responsible tools to advance digital trust across civil society and government at SimPPL.
A huge thanks to the wonderful @justinhendrix.bsky.social for supporting, guiding, and helping us pull this together!!!
August 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Reposted by Swapneel M.
Among others, it includes lessons on:

- trustworthy AI for journalism with @swapneel.bsky.social,

- tips on safeguarding mental health in the age of digital disinfo with @jospang.bsky.social,

- and insights on tackling disinformation from the Global South with @hwasser.bsky.social.
August 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Our work presents an overview of the historical attempts, successes, and subsequent challenges that emerged that dictated the long term impact of regulation on technological and socioeconomic progress in healthcare, aviation, finance, and automobiles. Read the paper for more:
A History of Transparency Regulations: Interdisciplinary Strategies for Shaping Social Media Regulation and Self-Governance | Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Governm...
dl.acm.org
August 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Regulation is framed as adversarial to progress by those it subjects to accountability for their actions, especially by big tech, social media, and AI companies. It's more important than ever before to get things right and balance between consumer protection and government overreach.
August 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Other sectors including healthcare, finance, and aviation have had similar concerns around transparency and decades of regulatory attempts have resulted in solutions that -- while imperfect -- work to protect consumers against harm, and to audit providers within these sectors for accountability.
August 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
And thanks to an AI assist, we organized these so you can parse through some of these platform interventions and organize others you see in practice!

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August 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Take a look at our paper and let us know if you have thoughts on how to improve coverage of platform interventions in the wild!

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A Framework for Digital Safety: Designing Social Media Interventions
Social media platforms deploy a wide variety of interventions to reduce online harms, yet efforts to compare or assess these measures are hampered by fragmented
papers.ssrn.com
August 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
We organize interventions by their focus, scope, driver, and user journey, and unify the language used to describe them. For practitioners, we provide a clear example of how this helps to discuss interventions deployed across TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram.
August 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Prior work has attempted to organize interventions in different ways which is great, but it is still challenging to consider the relative impact of *actual* platform interventions since the focus has been limited to thinking along academic terms so we shift gears towards practical implications.
August 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
...that were providing a free service monitoring digital harms from social media data access have had to wait ages for any semblance of meaningful support to emerge for regaining comparable data access from digital platforms.
July 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I usually add a disclaimer that my personal experiences have been overwhelmingly positive but that's not always been the case of my peers, plus there's always a chance things go sideways with a shaky federal funding landscape so this advice is additionally timely for those coming in now.
February 8, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I want to say most advisors are good people but there are always a few bad apples where the vibes are off.

Ensure that you are intentional about gathering the experiences of past mentees as you go into the acceptance process for graduate school offers. All the best!
February 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
When you're going into your PhD you want to consider what kind of person your advisor has been to past mentees especially thinking of the doors they have opened and the rooms they have been in.

Consider whether you'd like to be in the same rooms and part of the same communities.
February 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Follow the program and agenda at the Policy Center for the New South website with the program and session recordings available online! Apply to the Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leaders #ADEL program for their next cycle later this year, if you work in this space.

www.policycenter.ma/adel-communi...
ADEL Bios | Policy Center
www.policycenter.ma
January 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The world is moving fast and it’s difficult to keep up! Ask yourself how often you update your own perspective by making space for others to challenge you—especially others from your own teams. Set an example for others to follow!
January 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
There’s no #technology that guarantees you truthful answers 100% of the time because even such technology relies on third parties and the internet to draw its inference.
January 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Allow for uncertainty in conversations so that the public starts to acknowledge knowledge limitations and rebuild trust in democratic institutions instead of getting carried away by ideologues and misinformation. Facts almost always evolve and what is true today may not remain true tomorrow.
January 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Let’s be more accepting of our own limitations and make space for those who may contribute alternate expertise, especially those from the younger generation who have demonstrated outsized potential in their field.
January 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM