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In interviews with news outlets De Morgen, Radio1 and Trouw, Marijn Hoijtink and Jessica Dorsey reflect on Google’s departure from its commitment not to develop technology for weapon systems.

The project welcomes three new PhD researchers who will conduct research on platform corporations' role in contemporary warfare from a variety of theoretical, conceptual and empirical perspectives.

PLATFORM WARS’ Principal Investigator Marijn Hoijtink and her colleague Lauren Gould from the Realities of Algorithmic Warfare (RAW) program have been awarded a Research Project grant by the FWO to trace and investigate the Realities of Algorithmic Warfare – From Innovation to Deployment and its Impact on Civilian Harm.

As Israel’s air campaign in Gaza enters its sixth month after Hamas’s terrorist attacks on October 7, it has been described by experts as one of the most relentless and deadliest campaigns in recent history. It is also one of the first being coordinated, in part, by algorithms.