“We want to deter politicians from spreading false information” Published: 30 December 2021 Interview A conversation with Noa Barak about disinformation and the role of fact-checkers in Israel.
"Policymakers need to empower people to make good decisions online" Published: 30 December 2021 Interview A conversation with Dr. Philipp Lorenz-Spreen about cognitive patterns, heuristics and the role of policymakers in designing healthy online choice environments.
What are Data Intermediaries? Published: 30 December 2021 Explainer Based on the data they collect, platforms are able to target personalized content at the user level. What are the collective aspects of personalization on media platforms? How do they affect our privacy? Ayelet Gordon-Tapiero
Trends in Privacy Enforcement: A Comparative Analysis of post-GDPR Enforcement Styles Published: 30 December 2021 Spotlight This analysis aims to capture and cluster different post-GDPR enforcement styles by DPAs across the EU to better understand why enforcement over data protection issues vary across borders. Ido Sivan-Sevilla
Bulgarian elections: an Odyssey and a Labyrinth Published: 2 December 2021 ARTICLE A look at the events and political landscape of the Bulgarian elections (November 2021). Corinna Kanistra
Digital violence against women: what needs to be done now Published: 1 December 2021 Event report Every single day, women are abused, threatened or slandered on digital social networks. Yet the operators of these platforms are doing very little to make the digital space a safer place for women. The whistleblower Frances Haugen talked to Spiegel journalist Ann-Katrin Müller and Alexandra Geese, Member of the European Parliament, about what needs to be done right now to stop violence on the net. Ute Czylwik
A Short Report of the 2021 South Caucasus Regional Conference on Memory Politics Published: 30 November 2021 On October 11-12, 2021, the Heinrich Boell Stiftung/Foundation (hbs) Tbilisi Office – South Caucasus Region, together with Ilia State University and the Soviet Past Research Laboratory (SOVLAB), organized the South Caucasus Regional Conference on Memory Politics to address the foundations and legacy of the first independent republics (1918-1920/21) in the South Caucasus (SC).
5 things you need to know about the Green fraction in the 20th German Bundestag Published: 24 November 2021 Listicle Following the German federal election of 26 September 2021, the German Greens achieved the biggest, most female, younger and diverse parliamentary group in their history. Let’s explore some fact and figures about the Alliance 90/The Greens fraction in the 20th Bundestag! Joan Lanfranco
Media pluralism at risk in Greece Published: 22 November 2021 Commentary After a long period during which the media landscape has been mirroring the prevailing clientelism, Greece is now experiencing a rapid downslide towards dangerous pathways regarding media pluralism that bring the quality of democracy in the country into question. A look at the events and political developments that have accumulated over the last months. Michalis Goudis
Turkey : a common framework for economic and diplomatic analysis Published: 15 November 2021 Article For an investor, human rights issues have become a real operational risk—a reputational risk notably, because European companies are under the scrutiny of active shareholders, while ethical rules of conduct are increasingly integrated into management. Tania Sollogoub