New chapter 📕 out in this multidisciplinary volume on disinformation, edited by @goripaula.bsky.social and Lisa Ginsborg

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It was a treat to present ongoing work on political influencers & FEC regulation in the U.S. earlier today at PlatGovNet 2025 /// Thanks to the organizing team @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @deeliu97.bsky.social Emilie de Keulenaar @claraigk.bsky.social @jcmagalhaes.bsky.social & Ivar Hartmann 🙏

Here's a (scholarly) rant about A.I. and the seeming paradox Asian Americans as complicit with it that me, Michelle Huang, and Tara Fickle wrote as part of a DISCOnetwork writing jam. Is A.I. the next Iron Chink? medium.com/@hatlabnorth...

New conspiracy theory just dropped: What if peer review, committee meetings, strategic plans, promotion & tenure processes, and letter-writing requests are all part of a secret plot to keep smart, creative, active minds from thinking and writing the big ideas that would *really* change the world?

Very excited to read the final report - congrats, @isabelalinzer.bsky.social & @beccabranum.bsky.social. Love the title 📐

Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...

Law Profs teaching First Amendment: I have put together a FREE, recently updated, and easy to use casebook for use in free speech classes. If you are interested in using such a casebook, send me an email or DM and I would be happy to share!

🚨Special Issue Alert: Platforms, Publics, and Anti-Publics (1/9) Introduction from our guest editors Zoetanya Sujon, Harry Dyer and Felipe Bonow Soares. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #academicsky #socialmediasky

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note so self: include this case in chapter on ai influencers that i still need to write

after the #aoir fomo comes the #ade fomo 🪩

What makes the internet so special you ask? It was designed in the 1970s to create a system resilient to single points of.....oh. Jokes aside, I'm grateful that so much infrastructure *did* keep running yesterday. Saying a general thanks to all the engineers whose work made that possible.

Seems like an opportune moment to re-up our paper about AWS seeking infrastructural dominance in education through a range of operations that include platforming the edtech industry on its cloud services codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/h...

experiencing strong #AoIR2025 fomo - and looking forward to joining in 2026 ❤️ 🇲🇽

I spoke with Brendan Rascius of the Miami Herald about DHS Secretary Noem’s Hatch Act-violating video blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.

The #CASResearchGroup around Sahana Udupa @sahanaudupa.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social has come to an end, but the project will continue. www.cas.lmu.de/de/programme...

Warum Verschlüsselung wichtig ist und bleibt, hat uns Plattformforscher @martinriedl.bsky.social ebenfalls im Interview erklärt. Er führt einige Beispiele aus den USA an. buff.ly/YuyQpsq

It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.

slop machine

OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

This is but a small gripe in light of the weight of the world, but here's my annual complaint about the misuse of 'crescendo' in U.S. journalism. Reader, it does NOT mean the climax of something, but the process of getting louder as the late Miles Hoffman wrote in '13 www.nytimes.com/2013/07/29/o...

I recently spoke with @sachapfeiffer.bsky.social of @npr.org for a story on Democrats and their social media capabilities - aired on All Things Considered today. Listen to it here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...

here's an idea: before provosts buy new software and force faculty to use it for annual reviews (like sympletic elements), they should be mandated to manually enter a few CVs themselves. i have a hunch that there would be a certain degree of deterrence

i was gonna complain again about peer review, but everything has been said already...🤦‍♂️

Just bringing this thread back for reasons. An untenured woman assistant professor burned a flag in her class for pedagogy in 1989 and it remains the most badass thing any colleague I’ve had has ever done and I’ve had some pretty badass colleagues

when you get edits back on a paper and the person made line edits to direct quotes 🤦‍♂️ (not mentioning any names here 🤣)

This last acad year, I spent time in Munich at @caslmu.bsky.social, working with a fab group of folks led by @sahanaudupa.bsky.social on a policy report on encrypted messaging apps and extreme speech. Report is out & below is a summary of findings & recommendations in @techpolicypress.bsky.social 🔽

They are so lucky to get you, @jolukito.bsky.social! 👏👏👏 can’t wait for all the things you will accomplish in Denmark 🇩🇰

as someone who's been studying political influencers for a few years now, i recommend this piece in @gqmagazine.bsky.social on hasan piker (for the uninitiated) www.gq.com/story/hasan-...

CDT’s @jakelaperruque.bsky.social in the Nashville Scene on the risks of Tennessee’s police use of phone-tracking technology. www.nashvillescene.c...

🔔 “We’re coming to you from MEMPHIS to alert you of the critical nature of what’s happening right here in NASHVILLE.” Richard Massey says Elon’s xAI pollution is having a “human cost” in Memphis, and with this Tesla Tunnel @GovBillLee is “elevating profit over people” again

"Wir wissen nicht, wer morgen im Innenministerium für den Geheimdienst zuständig sein wird. Was wir jetzt beschließen, gefährdet uns alle: weil der Geheimdienst potenziell die Möglichkeit hat, auf uns alle zuzugreifen. Das wird es mit uns Grünen nicht geben."🗨️ @almazadic.bsky.social #OeNR

From the people who tried everything in their power to curtail misinformation research because it is "censorship" (it isn't), here is the next instalment of a political commissar to exercise actual censorship at a major network: gizmodo.com/fcc-to-a...

Finally got my hands on @mckenziewark.bsky.social’s “Raving” - can’t wait to read 🪩

This week, we celebrated the official launch of the Institute for Research on Far-Right Extremism (IRex) at the @unituebingen.bsky.social. It was a festive and hopeful occasion - much needed in the current political climate. Thank you to all who came and made it happen. 👏

Kevin Saunderson to the rescue - Paragon resurrected! 🪩 www.bkmag.com/2025/07/16/p...

ah but why did I even for a second doubt that corporate forces in the u.s. would succeed in weaponizing fair use doctrine successfully toward their ends?

AI infrastructure may exacerbate past harms that previous fossil fuel industries have imposed upon communities of color, excusing its extractive and harmful impacts in the name of progress and innovation, writes Kapor Foundation tech policy associate Cecilia Marrinan.

Very good q. Even more frustratingly, sometimes it does work (but most of the time it doesn’t)

The PlatGov Conference is back! What a joy! I have learned so much from this research community. Join us this year 👇 @robyncaplan.bsky.social @gorwa.ca @ameliehldt.bsky.social @naomiappelman.bsky.social @deeliu97.bsky.social

exciting news - looking forward to this 🤖

Critics of this zombie bill the past few years have been saying exactly this, that the arguments for KOSA only kinda hold so long as you like the people in power. Time and again the party does this to itself on social issues, lacking imagination for worst use cases in the hands of bad actors.

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google search has been like this for a while, but it's highly concerning that the news tab is now hidden and you have to expand a dropdown to even get to it....

We are hiring, @arc-mpib.bsky.social a postdoc for a project to investigate why citizens feel alienated from liberal democracy and how a shared sense of reality can be restored. Work with @lfoswaldo.bsky.social @anaskozyreva.bsky.social, Ralph Hertwig and me: www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2084802/2025...

Congrats again to @utknoxville.bsky.social College of Communication & Information PhD student Ariel Newell, for doing an excellent job presenting a co-authored paper on Swift(ies), politics, & 2024 U.S. election at the International Communication Association's meeting in Denver! #ica2025 #ica25 👏👏👏

My piece on the Roblox ICE protests is in @teenvogue.com!!

what I like is to pay giant companies more and more money for a shittier and shittier product until my head explodes