A huge thanks to the wonderful @justinhendrix.bsky.social for supporting, guiding, and helping us pull this together!!!

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.

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:

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.

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.

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!

interventions-report.vercel.app

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....

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.

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.

...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.

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.

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!

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.

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...

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!

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.

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.

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.