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Professor of digital [political] communication and sustainability at University of Hamburg
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Aleksandra Urman
11 days ago
Thanks for the shout-out
@jlgleason.bsky.social
Web search has changed a lot since early 2000s. Yet, papers still rely on Broder's taxonomy of search intent from that time. It's time to change that! In this paper led by Elsa Lichtenegger we present a new taxonomy, accounting for AI search as well!
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Mike Frank
17 days ago
Introducing Datapages, a new project from Mika Braginsky and me. Datapages are open-source templates for creating interactive websites that make research datasets easy to find, explore, and reuse. No coding required for the basic setup.
babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/04/data...
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Datapages for reusable (and pretty!) data sharing
Blog about fatherhood, langauge, developmental psychology, and cognitive science.
https://babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/04/datapages-for-reusable-and-pretty-data.html
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Andrew Gordon
about 1 month ago
New preprint out today (
osf.io/preprints/ps...
). We tested whether AI agents are actually infiltrating online surveys. Spoiler alert: they aren't Thread 🧵 [1/9]
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/pvdjr
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Marc Owen Jones
about 1 month ago
I've built a free open-source intelligence dashboard tracking every coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB) operation Meta has disclosed since 2018. 214 operations. 53 origin countries. $22.7M in ad spend. 71 reports analysed. Access it here!
marcowenjones.substack.com/p/i-created-...
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I created a free interactive dashboard documenting all META's influence operation takedowns
A searchable database and interactive dashboard collating all META's CIB and ATP reports
https://marcowenjones.substack.com/p/i-created-a-free-interactive-dashboard
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD
about 2 months ago
“Conflict entrepreneurs”--leaders who frequently use personal insults—are damaging democracy. An analysis of 2.2 million public statements from members of Congress finds that this type of rhetoric is linked to increased media coverage, but has no other benefits.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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Ella Carina Werner
about 2 months ago
Hab mir auch mal einen Reim auf die jüngsten Vorfälle im Literaturbetrieb gemacht
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H I Sutton
about 2 months ago
Brilliant
sweepthestrait.com
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Christina Viehmann
2 months ago
🚀 PhD (100%) | Disinformation, Youth & Cross-Platform Dynamics 👤 Profile: Strong affinity with CSS, Experience with digital data (social media, text corpora, etc.), Quantitative & computational methods (e.g., NLP, ML), Interest in political disinformation 📍 Cologne (up to 60% remote)
is.gd/dYxJ9L
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Doctoral Researcher in Computational Social Science (CSS-117) | Jobs at GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
GESIS is one of the world's leading social science infrastructure facilities, supporting researchers at all levels of their research projects with expertise and infrastructure services. We help ensure...
https://gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2546475?language=en&display=en
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2 months ago
#CallForProposals
for the 2nd funding period in the Infrastructure Priority Programme "New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences" (SPP 2431). Objective: Expanding data sources and methods for the social sciences. Interested researchers are invited to a workshop on 8 May 26. Details:
sohub.io/2s2g
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Infrastructure Priority Programme “New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences” (SPP 2431)
https://www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles/neuigkeiten-themen/info-wissenschaft/2026/ifw-26-17
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Tobias Dienlin
2 months ago
Professur für "Quantitative Methoden der digitalen Kommunikationsforschung" ausgeschrieben an der
@unisalzburg.bsky.social
Bewerbungfrist: 01.04.; Beginn: 01.10.
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Universitätsprofessur für „Quantitative Methoden der digitalen Kommunikationsforschung“ - Universität Salzburg
Fachbereich Kommunikationswissenschaft an der Gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Salzburg Universitätsprofessur gem. § 99 (1) UG 2002 für „Quantitative Methodender digitalen Komm...
https://www.plus.ac.at/personalabteilung-amt-der-universitaet/jobs-2/universitaetsprofessuren/universitaetsprofessur-fuer-quantitative-methoden-der-digitalen-kommunikationsforschung-2/
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DGPuK FG Kommunikation & Politik
2 months ago
+++ Mainz-Tagung 2027: CfP +++ Vom 7. bis 9. April 2027 trifft sich unsere FG zum Thema „Zur Lage der Meinungs- und Pressefreiheit: Aktuelle Konfliktlinien und Folgen für demokratische Öffentlichkeiten“ zum nächsten Mal. CfP & Tagungs-Website sind jetzt online:
ifp.uni-mainz.de/polkomm27/
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PolKomm27 – Institut für Publizistik
https://ifp.uni-mainz.de/polkomm27/
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Jakob-Moritz Eberl
3 months ago
Gestern bei
#FM4aufLaut
ein für mich neues Format ausprobiert – eigene Rolle finden, immer eine Herausforderung. Thema: die
#TrumpEpsteinFiles
– warum Datadumps ideales Material für Verschwörungsnarrative sind & welch realen moralischen Abgrund sie zugleich offenlegen.
sound.orf.at/podcast/fm4/...
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Michael Bang Petersen
3 months ago
New paper this week by V-Dem's director,
@silindberg.bsky.social
, on the the current wave of autocratization:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Including this important statement: "...it is by my own analysis no question that the USA no longer qualifies as a democracy."
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13510347.2026.2615134
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Curd Knüpfer
3 months ago
6 years ago, we first noticed sudden upticks in German fringe far right networks, using terms like "climate cult" to disparage climate activists and green policy initiatives.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks
In many contemporary democracies, digital networks on the far-right have established themselves as “alternatives” to liberal institutions. Within this nexus of parties, hyper-partisan news, and soc...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2024.2332762
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Fabio Votta📊🐧
3 months ago
🚀 dashboardr is out! An
#rstats
package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax. Launched with a fun hackathon at
@ascor.bsky.social
(🍕 included). 📦:
favstats.github.io/dashboardr/
Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and
@vivifabrien.bsky.social
for the logo 🎨
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our polcom conference at
@uni-hamburg.de
has ended, but I am still fan-girling on
@jolukito.bsky.social
, that was such a brillient talk! very inspiring for my new research project on right-wing defensive publics with
@lauraliebig.bsky.social
, but also for her stance on mutual support in Academia
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DGPuK FG Kommunikation & Politik
3 months ago
Herzlichen Glückwunsch an
@franzreiter.bsky.social
und
@utarussmann.bsky.social
zum Top Contribution Award unserer diesjährigen Tagung! Ihr Vortrag zum Thema "Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation in Gemeinden" wurde von den Reviewer:innen herausragend bewertet.
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Axel Bloom
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Kai Arzheimer
3 months ago
In which
@tompepinsky.com
suggests that
#genAI
may have is uses for social scientists (and social science?) after all
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Agentic AI and Social Science Research Practice
I’ve been exploring AI tools of various forms for more than a year now, mostly from a critical perspective of identifying things that they cannot do (such as draw maps), but also so that I can unde…
https://tompepinsky.com/2026/01/23/agentic-ai-and-social-science-research-practice/
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Mark A. Hanson
4 months ago
We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
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Well, this is what I ended up with. Somewhat fitting as I gave up my professorship in Zurich for my husband's love of these (according to family legend, at least)
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Jane Austen First Drafts
4 months ago
I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
4 months ago
Call for Applications for the Data Quality #Academy Certificate Program 2026 The call for applications for the #KODAQS Academy’s certificate program is open:
www.gesis.org/en/ges...
#Academy
#KODAQS
The program is aimed at early-career researchers from various disciplines who work with social science data.
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The COMPTEXT Association
5 months ago
The Call for Papers and Panels for
#COMPTEXT2026
in Birmingham (23-25 April) is out; feel free to circulate:
shorturl.at/gRg0p
! Deadline: January 16!
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Social Media Lab
5 months ago
Here's a peek at our new Social Media Research Toolkit, a curated collection of more than 50 social media research tools. This toolkit is unique in that it only features tried and tested tools that have been used in peer-reviewed academic studies. (ETA Jan 5, 2026)
#academicsky
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Claes de Vreese
5 months ago
Ban the Business Model, Not the Child. Read these wise (research based) words from colleague
@jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social
on the social media ban in Australia
@ascor.bsky.social
@antmandan.bsky.social
www.jessicataylorpiotrowski.com/2025/12/11/b...
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Ban the Business Model, Not the Child - Jessica Taylor Piotrowski, Ph.D.
Australia’s new under-16 social media rules are now live. In plain terms, they function as a delay on having accounts: young people (and parents) aren’t penalized, but platforms must take “reasonable ...
https://www.jessicataylorpiotrowski.com/2025/12/11/ban-the-business-model-not-the-child/
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Volker Lilienthal
5 months ago
Mitten in der Pandemie startete BILD den Versuch eines eigenen Fernsehsenders. Warum das Experiment scheiterte, habe ich u. a. auf Basis von 43 Interviews rekonstruiert. Jetzt Open Access in Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft [@bredowinstitut.bsky.social] erschienen.
www.inlibra.com/de/document/...
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M&K Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft
https://www.inlibra.com/de/document/view/pdf/uuid/b0f25214-c9c6-39fa-8ba8-33b02ddc018a?page=1&toc=5600490
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Oliver Das Gupta
5 months ago
"Die Analyse enthält auch einen 20-seitigen internen Evaluationsbericht der Armee (...) Die Militärexperten kommen zu dem Schluss, dass ein Abfluss von Daten aus den
#Palantir
Systemen technisch nicht verhindert werden könne."
#Schweiz
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Schweiz: Palantir-Software hat verheerende Risiken
Nach Risikoprüfung des Einsatzes von Palantir-Software in der Schweiz bekam der US-Konzern eine Absage, trotz jahrelanger Hofierung von Behörden und Armee. Den Eidgenossen sind die Risiken zu groß. Da...
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/schweiz-palantir-software-hat-verheerende-risiken/
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theresa gessler
5 months ago
We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢
@politikuhh.bsky.social
3+3 years Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour) DL 🗓️ 05/01
stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...
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Research Associate (Postdoc) Political Science § 28 Subsection 2 HmbHG
https://stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/62eb995af17ba16b88d207657cdc59a62491fa4c
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Ist denn schln Weihnachten? Hatte ein FETTES BROT in der Post!!
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Francesco Pierri
5 months ago
Happy to announce the 2nd edition of our Summer School in Computational Social Science that will take place in the beautiful Villa del Grumello on Lake Como between June 22-26, 2026! *** DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: February 15, 2026 (firm deadline) *** More details here:
css2.lakecomoschool.org
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SocArXiv
5 months ago
1. Pausing new submissions about AI topics for 90 days. That is, papers about AI models, testing AI models, proposing AI models, theories about the future of AI, etc. We will make exceptions for papers that are already accepted for publication (or published) in peer-reviewed scholarly journals /2
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Will Allen
6 months ago
This chimes with our new open-access
@polcommjournal.bsky.social
study of French-language immigration posts, which shows how far-right users flood feeds with hyper-partisan sources for political purposes:
doi.org/10.1080/1058...
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Aleksandra Urman
6 months ago
Google AI overviews now reach over 2B users worldwide. But how reliable are they on high stakes topics - for instance, pregnancy and baby care? We have a new paper - led by Desheng Hu, now accepted at
@icwsm.bsky.social
- exploring that and finding many issues Preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2511.12920
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Auditing Google's AI Overviews and Featured Snippets: A Case Study on Baby Care and Pregnancy
Google Search increasingly surfaces AI-generated content through features like AI Overviews (AIO) and Featured Snippets (FS), which users frequently rely on despite having no control over their presen...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12920
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Michael V. Reiss
6 months ago
Super important and dear to my heart! Also a good opportunity to remind people of the super helpful systematic list of open science/access media and communication research journals by Moritz Büchi and
@tobiasdienlin.com
here:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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UZH Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ)
6 months ago
📢Fantastic job-opportunity at the
#UZH
department for communication and media research
@ikmz.bsky.social
: Professorship in Communication Studies with a focus on Change and Innovation in Communication 100% 😍 Deadline for applications: December 17, 2025.
jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...
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UZH: Professur für Kommunikationswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Wandel und Innovation in der Kommunikation
An der Universität Zürich ist auf den 1. August 2027 eine Professur für Kommunikationswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Wandel und Innovation in der Kommunikation zu besetzen. Die künftige Stelleninhab...
https://jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/professur-fuer-kommunikationswissenschaft-mit-dem-schwerpunkt-wandel-und-innovation-in-der-kommunikation/c1d6a462-87d0-4aa6-8321-a98742d2c001
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Thorsten Quandt
6 months ago
🎓 We’re hiring! Two researcher / PhD positions in the ERC project DANCE – Dark Nerd Communities at the University of Münster 🇪🇺 🧮 Quantitative: survey, lab + field experiments 🎙️ Qualitative: ethnography, focus groups, interviews Apply by 28 Nov 2025 👇
#AcademicJobs
#ERC
#PhD
#CommunicationResearch
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Daphne Keller
6 months ago
Here is the first piece in a series of short articles I'm doing about the DSA and researcher access to publicly available information. It focuses on categories of researchers under the DSA, and what data they are each authorized to use. 1/
verfassungsblog.de/dsa-platform...
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Using the DSA to Study Platforms
https://verfassungsblog.de/dsa-platforms-digital-services-act/
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Noch drei Tage! Wir freuen uns über Eure Einreichungen zu Demokratischer Resilienz - auf bald in Hamburg!
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7 months ago
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Frau Büüsker
7 months ago
Vorbildliche Darstellung des NDR. Klimawandelfolgen auf Regionen heruntergebrochen, die dort beschriebenen Entwicklungen in größeren Kontext gesetzt und vermeintliche Widersprüche aufgelöst. Liebe Norddeutsche, hier habt ihr was zum Teilen
www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...
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Aktuelle Daten: Norddeutschland erlebte einen deutlich zu warmen und zu trockenen September
Nach einem durchwachsenen Sommer wurde der September im Norden noch einmal richtig warm, meldet der Deutsche Wetterdienst. Wie waren die Temperaturen in Ihrer Region?
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/Klimawandel-im-Norden-So-steigen-die-Temperaturen-in-Ihrer-Region,temperatur304.html
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So, now it's official: for the next four years, I'll be researching "Defensive Publics and their Imagined Security Communities in the Digital Realm" (with
@lauraliebig.bsky.social
) as part of the new DFG research group "The Promise of Security in Catastrophic Times"!!
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8 months ago
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Martin Fuchs 🦊
8 months ago
Studie "How to sell democracy online (fast)" ist ein Brett 🛹. Superspannend und extrem hilfreich, da sie erklärt: - Wie junge Menschen Plattformen nutzen - Was sie sich wünschen - Was funktioniert? 📝
www.progressives-zentrum.org/publication/...
Inklusive 13 konkreter Handlungsempfehlungen. 💯
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How to Sell Democracy Online (Fast)
Was und wie kommunizieren Politiker:innen auf TikTok & Instagram und wie bewerten das die User:innen der Plattformen? Jetzt die Studie lesen
https://www.progressives-zentrum.org/publication/how-to-sell-democracy-online-fast/
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Martin Fuchs 🦊
8 months ago
Populismus & Polarisierung funktionieren super auf
#TikTok
& Insta
#Reels
. Aber wie können Demokraten vertikale Videos nutzen, um junge Zielgruppen zu erreichen & Impact zu erzielen? Neue Studie von
@dpzberlin.bsky.social
&
@bertelsmannst.bsky.social
hat 30.000 Videos analysiert & gibt Tipps 👇
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Tarik Abou-Chadi
8 months ago
Now out in
@cpsjournal.bsky.social
. In our new article,
@denis-cohen.bsky.social
@thmskrr.bsky.social
and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Berit Glanz
8 months ago
"Die Veränderung der Welt durch Internetkultur betrifft mittlerweile nicht mehr nur Einzelersonen, die einfach mal Gras anfassen sollten. Internetkultur ist keine Nische mehr, die man wahlweise ignorieren oder als obskuren Quatsch verlachen kann..."
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Brainrot Morde oder wie man einen Abgrund überwindet
In den USA ist am 10.
https://beritmiriam.substack.com/p/brainrot-morde-oder-wie-man-einen
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Annika Joeres
8 months ago
Diese Annäherung an Trumps Politik finanzieren US-Stiftungen, oft unterstützt von der fossilen Industrie, sowie marktradikale Denkfabriken aus Ungarn und Deutschland. Viele CDU-Urgesteine fürchten diese Trumpisierung zutiefst. Text mit
@gabrielakeller.bsky.social
correctiv.org/aktuelles/tr...
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Geld, Macht, Kampagnen: Der lange Arm von Team Trump
Wie millionenschwere Stiftungen und mächtige Lobbyisten versuchen, Trumps Agenda nach Europa zu bringen und die CDU für sich einzunehmen.
https://correctiv.org/aktuelles/trump-und-europa/2025/03/12/geld-macht-kampagnen-der-lange-arm-von-team-trump-2/
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Annika Joeres
8 months ago
Die Reaktionen auf den Mord an Kirk zeigen klar, wie deutsche Konservative den Trumpschen Stil aus Halbwahrheiten, wilden Beschuldigungen und Hass kopieren. Das ist keine spontane Gefühlswallung, sondern Strategie. Millionenschwere (US-)Stiftungen und rechtskonservative Netzwerke arbeiten daran 🧵
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Kostia Yanchenko
8 months ago
Our study on the strategic narratives about the Russian-Ukrainian war in 7 EU countries, co-authored with
@eddahumprecht.bsky.social
, is out in the IJoC. We trace pro-Russian messages across countries, platforms, and actor types ahead of the 2024 EP election. Check it out:
ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
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Joachim Baumann
8 months ago
🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
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