Politico interviewed Sally Broughton Micova, CERRE Research Fellow and University of East Anglia, on the stringent obligations facing very large platforms (VLOPS) in the Digital Services Act to assess and tackle the risks they pose to societies.
“The risk assessment shouldn’t be a navel gazing exercise where the platform just looks at what it’s doing and its own users and says ‘well, in our community, everything is fine,’ because that’s not the idea of systemic risks, which relates to the harm to economic, societal systems such as electoral integrity,” explained Broughton Micova. She also recommends to make these assessments open and participatory.
Read the full piece in Politico Morning Tech (2 November 2021) and discover CERRE’s recent Issue Paper ‘What is the harm in size?‘ (October 2021).