Naomi Appelman

Naomi Appelman is a legal scholar at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) interested in the role of law in online exclusion, speech governance, and platform power. Her research asks how European law should facilitate contestation of the content moderation systems governing online speech. The aim of facilitating this contestation is to minimise undue exclusion, often of already marginalised groups, from online spaces and democratise the power over how online speech is governed. Appelman is one of the founders of the Racism and Technology Center and together with bioinformatic Robin Pocornie sued the Free University of Amsterdam for using online proctoring that discriminates against people of color.