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2026-04-17 20:19 UTC
CONGRATULATIONS to DR. @lucaswright for defending his PhD on the political economy of trust & safety, disinformation, and copyright!
Lucas's talk asked: when gov regulates tech, who decides the meaning of policy and how policy affects people's lives?
His answer: governance intermediaries like compliance vendors.
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@natematias@social.coop 2026-04-17 20:19
His dissertation presented: - in-depth fieldwork with the vendor ecosystem for trust and safety - analysis of the way that some companies use national security framings to sell disinformation services - and a powerful analysis of the effect of bounty hunting copyright bots on expression online