Here's what's been happening.
| May 29, 2024 | Kathy was at Re:publica and participated in a panel on Systemic Risks Online: What we know, what we don’t, and how to fix them?. |
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| May 23, 2024 | The tiktok-audit team will be at CPDP 2024 with Martin on a panel on Auditing Algorithmic Risks and Kathy talking about data access. |
| May 21, 2024 | Kathy published a comment at Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German) arguing that politicians should be on TikTok. |
| May 6, 2024 | Kathy Meßmer gave an interview to German television news show Tagesschau, parts of it aired Friday night. |
| Apr 29, 2024 | We met with the TikTok team responsible for the Research API for a discussion and they invited our input for future improvements on the API, possible endpoints and data fields. |
| Mar 1, 2024 | Next Wednesday, March 6th, Martin Degeling will take part in a panel discussion at the European Parliament Protecting the 2024 Elections: From Alarm to Action How the DSA can protect democracy by meaningfully addressing the virality of disinformation and hate speech. |
| Feb 17, 2024 | Martin gave an online talk about auditing TikTok at a meeting of the BAG Digitales und Medien of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. |
| Sep 29, 2023 | Our blog posts on political ads on TikTok got mentioned among others by Understanding TikTok and netzpolitik.org (German) |
| Aug 18, 2023 | We start our blog with a quick overview of TikToks new Ad Library. |
| Aug 16, 2023 | Kathy Meßmer explained in the Deutschlandfunk how TikTok draws users into the digital war zone (German) |
| Jul 27, 2023 | Kathy Meßmer discussed how platforms should assess systemic risks at the Digital Services Act Stakeholder Event in Brussel. The recording can be found here |
| Jul 11, 2023 | We published a response to the European Commission’s Consultation on Digital Services Act transparency database |
| Jul 7, 2023 | We have published an extend list of the variables TikTok uses. |
| Jun 21, 2023 | Anna Semenova published a case study analyzing YouTube’s Interconnected Components |
| Jun 6, 2023 | Kathy Meßmer spoke at the RightsCon in Costa Rica on Developing the San José Principles on content recommendation |
| Jun 2, 2023 | We have also submitted a comment on the public consultation process of the European Comission on the draft delegated act on audits. A summary is available on our main website. |
| May 26, 2023 | Kathy Meßmer discussed at the CPDP whether the Digital Services Act will promote safer and healthier algorithmic rankings? |
| May 23, 2023 | Based on our experience with TikTok we’ve submitted feedback to the European Commissions Call for Evidence for the Delegated Regulation on data access provided for in the Digital Services Act. |
| Apr 19, 2023 | Our analysis of the search function in the TikTok app has revealed the names of block lists TikTok is using. Our results are summarized in a Mastodon thread. |
| Apr 13, 2023 | To show the differences between the metadata available on the TikTok website and within the app, we’ve published schemas of each video from the different sources. |
| Mar 29, 2023 | Kathy Meßmer argues on the Deutschlandfunk that the filter bubble theory is outdated (German) |
| Mar 22, 2023 | We published a collaborative mapping of research on systemic risk |
| Mar 20, 2023 | Our team was interviewed for the Algorithm Governance Roundup |
| Mar 16, 2023 | Since the summer of 2022, we have been monitoring the TikTok websites for the videos shown there. A graph-based representation of the most common hashtags is now available, as are the code and data we used to generate it. |
| Feb 7, 2023 | We have published a paper on auditing recommender systems that proposes a risk-scenario-based process which will guide our analysis of TikTok. |
| Dec 29, 2022 | Martin Degeling was interviewed by Deutschlandfunk about alternative social networks (German) |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Added the TikTok Algo 101 document and translations. The document was frist discussed in the New York Times in December 2021, but was online in Chinese since January 2021. The document was translated using Yandex and slightly edited by @mrtn3000. |
| Nov 30, 2022 | Martin Degeling was a guest on the digital human rights podcast (German) |
| Sep 14, 2022 | Martin Degeling was interviewed by Understanding TikTok about his work and the project. |