Jillian York

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Director for International Freedom of Expression
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Jillian C. York is a writer and activist whose work examines the impact of technology on our societal and cultural values. Based in Berlin, she is the Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a fellow at the Center for Internet & Human Rights at the European University Viadrina, a visiting professor at the College of Europe Natolin, and the author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021).

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Wheel of Misfeeds – Why transparency reporting is broken and the Digital Services Act won’t fix it.

Svea Windwehr, Jillian York, Robert Gorwa

Content moderation at scale can massively interfere with users’ fundamental rights. To counter the opacity of corporate content moderation, regulation like the DSA heavily relies on transparency reports, a fundamentally broken tool. We'll explore how we go here and discuss meaningful alternatives.
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