I am an incoming Postdoctoral Researcher at the Oxford Social Media Observatory (OSMO) at the University of Oxford. My research examines how online platforms govern speech—and how users perceive, interpret, and respond to content moderation decisions and mechanisms within broader and evolving patterns of social media use.
I recently submitted my doctoral dissertation at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where I worked as a research associate at the Chair of Digital Governance. My work was situated within the project Transparency in Content Moderation, which examines how moderation rules are designed, communicated, and understood in practice, and how these processes shape user behavior and trust in platform governance.
I am also involved as a research collaborator in the Content Moderation Lab, incubated at the TUM Think Tank. Across projects, my research combines survey experiments, observational data, and causal inference approaches, complemented by computational analyses.
Published work
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In the public conversation
Content Warning: Public Attitudes on Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression
Theocharis, Kosmidis, Zilinsky, Quint & Pradel (2025). Covered across national and international press.
What People Want from Platforms Isn't What Musk and Zuckerberg Are Selling
Tech Policy Press, May 2025. Plus an interview on moderation demand for ver.di, Menschen machen Medien.