How Students Help (Us) Audit Social Media Recommendation Algorithms 23. Jun 2026Pytlík, M., Macák, E., Tvaroh, M. During September 2025, students from the DELTA Secondary School of Informatics and Economics in Pardubice, Czech Republic, took part in an internship in KInIT,...
What do children see on TikTok? 7. May 2026What happens to the For You Page of a 16-year-old girl interested in beauty content after ten days on TikTok? Does it look different from an adult’s? Is it just...
Exploring TikTok’s Virtual Compute Environment (VCE): A Critical Review of Limitations and Flaws 20. Mar 2026TikTok’s Virtual Compute Environment (VCE) is marketed as a secure, cloud-based platform for approved researchers and developers to analyze public TikTok data. In the previous blog, we introduced how such...
Exploring TikTok’s Virtual Compute Environment (VCE): How It Should Work 20. Mar 2026In our previous blogs, first, we described how we applied for TikTok research API, and then how (after rejections, appeals, and exhausting communication with TikTok support), we finally received a...
When Research APIs Close the Door: When you finally get it, it is not what you have asked for 19. Dec 2025In the previous blog, we described a timeline of how we applied for TikTok research data access (API) and kept communicating with TikTok for 1.5 years, and had not received...
Multimodal Fact-Check Retrieval 14. Sep 2025In the two previous installments of our 3-part series, we covered how a text embedding model (TEM) can help fact-checkers to cut down on duplicate effort by retrieving existing fact-checks...
Everything You Wanted to Know About the EU AI Act (But Were Afraid to Ask) 18. Aug 2025Artificial intelligence is transforming every corner of our lives, but keeping up with the rules can feel like navigating a maze. The EU AI Act, Europe’s first comprehensive legal framework...
When Research APIs Close the Door: Using Algorithmic Auditing as an Alternative Approach to Study Social Media 11. Jul 2025Access to public data from social media platforms is, in general, an important enabler for research activities in all fields, ranging from computer science to social science and humanities. The...
Why viral posts on social media might be hurting us the most 30. Jun 2025Billions of people scroll through social media every day, encountering different posts. We often assume that the posts we see are the most important or entertaining ones, just because they...
