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On 11 June 2025, the PLATFORM WARS project hosted a workshop with Roberto Gonzalez, Professor of Anthropology at San José State University.

In April, the PLATFORM WARS project was visited by Anna Nadibaidze, postdoctoral researcher at the Center for War Studies of the University of Southern Denmark (SDU).

In light of the increasing automation and platformization of warfare and military decision-making, especially in the context of Ukraine and Gaza, the expertise of PLATFORM WARS and RAW researchers was high in demand last year, resulting in a series of interviews in newspapers, radio stations and podcasts.

In their new FWO research project ‘Tracing the Realities of Algorithmic Warfare: From Innovation to Deployment and its Impact on Civilian Harm’, PLATFORM WARS’ Marijn Hoijtink and RAW’s Lauren Gould offer a 4-year, fully funded PhD position in International Relations and Conflict Studies.

In a recent blog post for Opiniojuris, PLATFORM WARS' Marijn Hoijtink and Jasper van der Kist reflect on the growing importance of the platform model in defense tech and warfare, drawing analogies to other domains in which platform corporations have gained extraordinary market power in recent years.

In the last week of January, the PLATFORM WARS project organized an interdisciplinary workshop focusing on different conceptualizations of ‘the platform’ and what they could add to the analysis of contemporary warfare.

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.