RIGHTSCON 2025
Reach out to set a time to meet or come find us at one of the following sessions:
Towards Principles on Accountability and Transparency in Social Media Monetization
Feb 24 | 11:30-3pm | Room 201C
Social media companies are deciding over the distribution of over $20 billion a year - and we bet you have no idea where this money is going or how these decisions are being made. It's high time we start talking about the governance of social media monetization.
Join us for a Day 0 consultation to help define what a principled approach to monetization governance should entail - and flesh out key transparency and accountability asks
Join us for a Day 0 consultation to help define what a principled approach to monetization governance should entail - and flesh out key transparency and accountability asks
From Content to Payment: How Social Media Companies are Financially Subsidizing Disinformation
Feb 25 | 9am | South Lobby
Did you know that over 6 million social media accounts are generating revenue directly from platforms?
Social media companies process millions of fund transfers worth billions every month - with no oversight or accountability.
The very same algorithms and classifiers that Mark Zuckerberg called out for making too many mistakes are being used to decide who cashes in and how much. What could possibly go wrong?! I promise to make it worth you getting out of bed to find out!
Social media companies process millions of fund transfers worth billions every month - with no oversight or accountability.
The very same algorithms and classifiers that Mark Zuckerberg called out for making too many mistakes are being used to decide who cashes in and how much. What could possibly go wrong?! I promise to make it worth you getting out of bed to find out!
Behind the Apps: Transparency Regarding Authority Requests
Feb 26 | 10:15am | Room 101D
Ever looked into platforms' disclosure of government requests? What if we told you that those are massively under-reported?Join us for a workshop hosted by R3D to explore how platforms are under-reporting government requests and discuss strategies on how to expose the scale of this under-reporting.
The Price of Hate: Evaluating the Economic Impact of Online Hate Speech on Digital Platforms
Feb 27 | 10:15am | Room 401
Did you know that Meta took in $ 160.6 billion in ad revenue in 2024. Facebook alone is believed to have generated over $ 100 billion (a more than 30% increase since 2023).
So long as platforms keep experiencing double digit revenue growth, and reporting profit in the $ billions, can we really expect them to care about what goes on on their
platform?
Can we quantify the financial impact of hate and disinformation? And how do we go about increasing the cost to their bottom line?
So long as platforms keep experiencing double digit revenue growth, and reporting profit in the $ billions, can we really expect them to care about what goes on on their
platform?
Can we quantify the financial impact of hate and disinformation? And how do we go about increasing the cost to their bottom line?
Join us for this interactive workshop hosted by Shhor AI.
Ad-vantage Points: Digital Ad Transparency through the Lens of Asia's Trends and Europe's Rules
Feb 27 | 12:45pm | Room 101B
Social media has been a game changer for the advertising industry - making it easier than ever to target you. But it's not just brands that are taking advantage of it - and paid distribution is creating a whole new array of challenges.
As Europe is leading the charge to regulate the space - platforms are inconsistently rolling out tools and solutions (or resisting doing so) in various contexts, with critical (and at times unintended) consequences.
Join us for a thought provoking panel, hosted by Reset Tech.
As Europe is leading the charge to regulate the space - platforms are inconsistently rolling out tools and solutions (or resisting doing so) in various contexts, with critical (and at times unintended) consequences.
Join us for a thought provoking panel, hosted by Reset Tech.
Publications
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Workshop: Follow the Social Media Money
Nov 8, 2025
Testing the DSA: Challenging the Social Media Decisions that Matter for Democracy
Nov 7, 2025
Bread&Net: How is Social Media Monetization Impacting WANA?
Oct 31, 2025
Social Media Monetization: What Does it Means for LATAM?
Oct 23, 2025
Economic viability: Funding independent media - public interest journalism
Oct 13, 2025
WHAT TO FIX Urges Transparency into Social Media Monetization in Exchange of Views with European Parliament
Oct 13, 2025
Fueling the machine causing issues we are fighting against: Ethical dilemma of using social media for civil society causes
Oct 3, 2025
The business models of personality-led journalism
Oct 1, 2025
Big Tech and the Misinformation Crisis in South Asia
Sep 30, 2025
Monetizing Sanctioned Pages: Why Platform Profit Models Demand Deeper Scrutiny
Aug 27, 2025
Raising Concerns Over Social Media Companies’ Failure to Disclose Risks Related to Their Monetization Services Under the DSA
Aug 4, 2025
EU Democracy Shield: WHAT TO FIX’s recommendations to the European Parliament
Jul 31, 2025
EUDisinfoLab Webinar: Monetizing Sanctioned Entities
Jul 8, 2025
Protecting the Information Space: A Different Kind of Defence Strategy
Jun 19, 2025
Consultation: Monetization Principles
Feb 24, 2025
WHAT TO FIX at RightsCon25
Feb 17, 2025
Far-Right Influencers And The Platforms That Enable Them
Nov 15, 2024
#EUDisinfo2024: Can Advertising Cash Stop Funding Misinformation Trash?
Oct 10, 2024
#EUDisinfo2024: Mission NOT Accomplished: Unintended Fallbacks From Investigations
Oct 10, 2024
DRAPAC: How Is Social Media Monetization Fueling Disinformation In Asia? And What Should We Do About It?
Aug 20, 2024
POINT: How To Pull The Plug On Monetizing Disinformation
Jun 29, 2024
Global Fact: How Social Media Ad Revenue Sharing Is Subsidizing Disinformation Globally
Jun 28, 2024
EUDisinfoLab Webinar: From Content To Payment
Jun 14, 2024