Systemic Risks Online: What we know, what we don't, and how to fix them?

Two key questions around systemic risks in the Digital Services Act (and beyond) are (i) what counts as a “systemic risk” online and (ii) what are best practices for mitigating them?  Both questions have real-world implications for how regulation, research, and technology can shape online spaces - hopefully for the better.  

AlgorithmWatch, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, and Panoptykon have, independently but with ongoing collaboration, been conducting projects to collect and map views on both these questions from a range of perspectives – researchers, civil society organisations, technologists, and more. In this panel we will summarise latest results and future directions of this research.  

We also see the re:publica audience as an important source of further input, in particular for (i) perspectives on “grey areas” case studies of what counts as a systemic risk and (ii) emerging ideas and techniques for mitigating online risks, and will build in methods to seek this input in and outside of this session.