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rights and democratic discourse.<\/span><\/p>\nPreviously, he worked at AlgorithmWatch, a nonprofit watchdog based in Berlin and Z\u00fcrich, where he advocated for civil society perspectives in public debates and supported the DSA\u2019s framework for platform accountability and risk oversight. Prior to that, he was a research fellow at the Hertie School Centre for Digital Governance, where he earned a master’s degree in public policy in 2021.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n John also holds a master\u2019s from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he graduated in 2014. Early in his career, he worked as a video journalist in McClatchy\u2019s Wichita newsroom, covering the 2016 U.S. presidential election and witnessing the hostile effects of political polarization. He later transitioned to producing branded content amid the news industry\u2019s \u2018pivot to video,\u2019 learning firsthand how the platform economy impacted the news business. These formative experiences pushed him to examine the intersections of media power, technology, and governance\u2014connecting to his current work on European platform regulation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John A. Albert\u00a0 John Albert is an associate researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) where he contributes to the Digital Services Act (DSA) Observatory\u2014an independent hub for scholarly input and expert discussions around this landmark legislation. His research examines the practical application of the DSA\u2019s risk-based approach to platform governance, and how this<\/p>\n