Thales Bertaglia

Hi! I’m Thales Bertaglia, a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law, Economics, and Governance at Utrecht University. I’m currently working on the ERC Starting Grant HUMANads, which focuses on understanding the impact of content monetisation on social media and reinterpreting private law fairness in platform governance. My work bridges computational social science, digital governance, and legal perspectives, with a focus on empowering stakeholders and making digital ecosystems more transparent, accountable, and fair.
I study the creator economy and, more broadly, social media platforms, investigating how content monetisation, algorithmic systems, and platform regulation interact. My research combines machine learning, natural language processing, and other computational methods to develop tools for detecting online harms, evaluating the impact of governance interventions, and operationalising legal norms into computational tasks. I am particularly interested in building reproducible, explainable, and legally grounded AI systems that support users, creators, researchers, and regulators.
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May 30, 2025 | Our paper Towards Fairness Assessment of Dutch Hate Speech Detection has been accepted at WOAH, which will take place at ACL! |
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May 06, 2025 | Our paper TikTok Search Recommendations: Governance and Research Challenges has been accepted at COMPASS 2025, which will take place at ICWSM! |
Jan 16, 2025 | Our paper Influencer self-disclosure practices on Instagram: A multi-country longitudinal study is out in Online Social Networks & Media! |
Nov 26, 2024 | I defended my PhD on the 7th of November! You can watch the defence here and read my thesis here. |
Sep 09, 2024 | Our paper The Monetisation of Toxicity: Analysing YouTube Content Creators and Controversy-Driven Engagement won the Best Paper Runner-Up Award at OASIS 2024! |