Come work with us 🚨 We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab. Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science. Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions. DL 🗓️ November 1 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

🚩New paper out! I look at how big tech's control over the technologies used inside newsrooms (cloud, genAI, etc) threatens media freedom, and what EU law can do about it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗜 & 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 📣 We evaluated public accountability and regulatory expectations for AI in journalism. We conducted focus groups with Dutch citizens. Some results 👇🧵 Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This weekend, the Meta Ad Library turns seven, and the first ads in it, from back in 2018, will start to disappear. It would be trivial for Meta to keep a permanent archive of political ads, and they should. Here's more on that: whotargets.me/en/the-disap...

I am still wrapping my head around Google's announcement to stop political advertising in the EU in 2025. The decision to stop is allegedly due to regulation's broad definition of what a political ad is. But this is problematic. [1/2] #commsky #polcom #csssky #polisky blog.google/around-the-g...