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The Linux Foundation sustains critical open-source infrastructure, from the Linux Kernel to decentralized identity standards. The Applied Social Media Lab participated in several discussions during the Foundation’s Summit Week in Napa, California, including the Summit on Human Agency (H2H), the Linux Foundation Member Summit, and a Linux Kernel maintainers workshop, engaging the builders and maintainers of the First Person ecosystem in the shared question: how do we build trust infrastructure for a world where AI agents and humans act alongside each other in open-source ecosystems?  The Summit on Human Agency convened researchers, technologists, and policymakers to examine how identity,… Read more: ASML presents at the Linux Foundation Summit Week

The 2026 First Person Project Summit held in Seattle brought together builders and researchers to establish a global infrastructure for social verification, led by the First Person Project. At the Summit, the Applied Social Media Lab presented a live demonstration of the ASML Wallet to technologists, governance leaders, and community builders working on digital trust and decentralized systems. The session focused on how individuals can use the ASML Wallet to form verifiable, privacy-preserving connections with people they meet—such as at events or within shared communities—and carry those connections forward as durable, user-controlled signals of trust.  We invited participants… Read more: ASML presents at the 2026 First Person Project Summit

ASML’s Transparency Hub provides access to policy documents from hundreds of companies, giving users the ability to directly compare and track how policies change over time and understand how social media platforms use data.

ASML partnered with Boston University’s Spark! Program to develop a Policy Analytics Dashboard based on the Lab’s Transparency Hub.

Join ASML for the launch of Transparency Hub, a new platform designed to compare the data practices of consumer-facing social and technology applications. 

BKC’s Applied Social Media Lab opened its doors to the public in December to learn more about the Lab’s ongoing work in public interest tech.

Join ASML on Thursday, December 4 for the 2025 Synthesizer & Open Showcase.

I’m happy to announce the release of the ActivityPub Fuzzer. The ActivityPub Fuzzer is a small program to help developers build social media software on the Fediverse with the ActivityPub protocol. It uses data collected by the Fediverse Schema Observatory to emulate known Fediverse software, solving the problem where developers have to manually test compatibility with dozens of other projects. The Fuzzer runs in a local development environment. You can tell it to locally emulate a public fire hose, or to send you messages formatted from every known version of a specific software project. The problem The Fediverse… Read more: Introducing the ASML ActivityPub Fuzzer: Improving Testing in the Fediverse

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ASML has three panels up for consideration at SXSW 2026. Learn more about each panel and cast your vote today.

ASML seeks participants for user experience interviews on a tool aimed at documenting and reporting harassment on social media.

ASML’s Spring Synthesizer showcased current projects and new ideas from our network. Watch the recorded sessions to learn more.

Join us for an afternoon dedicated to sharing ASML’s current projects, and engage with our network of engineers and academics to learn how we can all create a better social media landscape.