Jorele Simons

My research investigates how social-media governance shapes real-world security and integrity for small organisations (SMEs), creators, and community businesses. I study the compliance-to-practice gap on platforms: why rules around data protection, online safety, and transparency rarely translate into workable, low-friction controls for day-to-day content operations, audience growth, and monetisation.

Combining socio-technical security, platform studies, and digital policy, I analyse how regulatory instruments (such as the UK Online Safety Act, EU DSA/DMA, GDPR/UK GDPR) interact with platform product choices (recommendation, identity, analytics, automation), and how these interactions can influence threat modelling, account compromise, brand impersonation, data leakage, and harmful content exposure.