Educating or performing? TikTok literacy activities in the Nordics
TikTok’s popularity makes the platform both a significant site of online information disorders and a potentially powerful educator in media...
Analysis and policy development in the Nordics
Policy monitoring
Policy news and reports from NORDIS
NORDIS follows national, EU, and global policy developments, including the implementation of the Digital Services Act. In addition, when appropriate, NORDIS supports EDMO’s policy-related initiatives, such as monitoring the Code of Practice.
Led by Faktabaari, NORDIS documents its policy-related activities and makes its internal policy reports and equivalent texts available here.
Highlights
The EU’s Code of Practice on Disinformation: How Platforms Respond to False and Misleading Content
Policy researchers, Minna Aslama Horowitz (NORDIS) and Madalina Botan (BROD), argue that the EU needs stronger, independent oversight of platforms...
Re-enforcing trust for a united tech-democratic region
Minna Aslama Horowitz, Docent and Researcher at the University of Helsinki and contributor to the NORDIS project, addressed the major...
NORDIS policy report: TikTok and MIL in the Nordics
The following is the introduction to the report. Read the full report here The Chinese social media platform TikTok has...
Other
- Basic briefing on the EU media regulation, with the case of approaches to disinformation. (June, 2024)
- Summary notes from the 5-part webinar series on EU platform policies by Maldita, focusing on the Digital Services Act. (June/July, 2024)
- Summary notes of the Transatlantic workshop 'Beyond European and US Elections'. (October, 2024)
- NORDIS, DATALAB, and DECA provided feedback to the European Commission on the Digital Services Act, highlighting transparency in applications, data quality standards, and independent monitoring to ensure fair access for researchers. (November, 2024)
- NORDIS presentation at UNAEuropa Conference, 3 June 2025 - Monitoring Transparency: EU’s Platform Governance in the Time of Information Disorders
- Contributed to: Implementing the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation (June, 2025)