13 February: Free Our Feeds: a path to build open, public interest social media

13 February 2025, 14:30 – 15:30 CET

Social media is changing fast, with open protocols and new products emerging and — finally — bringing about the promise of change. This presentation looks at the AT Protocol, BlueSky, algorithmic pluralism, the Free Our Feeds campaign, and how these all tie together to open the door to public interest social media infrastructure and a much healthier information environment.

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Speaker:

Robin Berjon, Technologist, IPFS Foundation / Free Our Feeds

Robin Berjon is a technologist specialising in the governance of digital tech. He is deputy director of the IPFS Foundation. Previously he was VP of Data Governance at The New York Times, where he worked on privacy and safeguarding media independence, and Vice-Chair of the board of the World Wide Web Consortium. His work focuses on building durable democratic governance of technology so that our digital sphere starts operating in the public interest at the planetary scale.

Moderator:

Joe McNamee, Senior Policy Expert, EU DisinfoLab

Joe McNamee has been working on topics related to internet regulation for over 20 years. Prior to his current role as Senior Policy Expert at EU DisinfoLab, he worked as policy adviser for a political group in the European Parliament. From 2009 to 2018, he led European Digital Rights, the association of digital civil rights organisations in Europe, working on major topics such as the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Copyright Directive. Prior to this, Joe worked for a political consultancy specialised in telecommunications and internet policy, where he led three research projects funded by the European Commission. During this time, he also worked on the EU’s E-Commerce (the predecessor to the DSA) and ePrivacy Directives. Joe holds master’s degrees in European Politics and in International Law.

The opinions expressed are those of the speakers/authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of EU DisinfoLab. This webinar does not represent an endorsement by EU DisinfoLab of any organisation.