Pressure had been building for days... "BBC director general Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness resign following criticism that a BBC Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by US President Donald Trump." Live coverage: www.bbc.com/news/live/cd...

✨ Audiences doubt the benefits of AI-generated imagery in news are worth the risks, new study finds. @andrewdeck.bsky.social wrote an article on our latest study in @digitaljournalism.bsky.social 🙏 w Dina Strikovic www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/audi... @aimediademlab.bsky.social @ddc-sdu.bsky.social

Wait, what? "Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge." www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

Yesterday, the European Commission launched some pointers on marking & labelling AI-generated content.🏷️ Downside: It will be a voluntary instrument to help providers of generative AI systems effectively meet their transparency obligations @ec.europa.eu digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...

Interesting 🧐 BBC just released their updated AI transparency labels. They have devised a simple, neutral shape (a hexagon) which is derived from the BBC blocks. The particular disclosure label is being trialled in BBC Sport live 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

To everybody submitting to #ICA26 - Good luck! 🍀 You've got this 🙏 @icahdq.bsky.social

Ontluisterend stuk over oa hoofd communicatie GL-PVDA. Of over misverstanden tss VL & NL:🆘 "Achteraf bleken Vlamingen met ‘voorlichter’ iets heel anders te bedoelen dan NLers. Waar de fusiepartij een strateeg dacht binnen te halen, kregen ze een debattrainer met ambities" www.vn.nl/missie-timme...

Hoe AI verkiezingscampagnes verandert: "Mensen horen te weten dat wat ze zien niet echt is" Wat inzichten vr @demorgen.be, over recent onderzoek bij @ascor.bsky.social over AI beelden/teksten @claesdevreese.bsky.social @lcjacobs89.bsky.social @bramjaques.bsky.social www.demorgen.be/politiek/hoe...

"The week that AI hit Europe’s elections" With insights from @claesdevreese.bsky.social, @favstats.eu & yours truly! Thanks to @pieterhaeck.bsky.social & @evahartog.bsky.social.

From far-right AI imagery to AI chatbots offering vote advice. Weighing in in @politico.eu on the role of AI in the Dutch elections with great colleagues @favstats.eu and @hannescools.bsky.social www.politico.eu/article/elec...

Watching Dutch elections results right now 🏇🏇

Frontpages of some of the main newspapers in NL, the day after 🇳🇱 Narrative is mainly: 𝗔 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘃𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗝𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝟲𝟲! This morning, we see that this narrative is already shifting, as 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀...

Difference between parties D66 & PVV in Dutch elections 🫣🇳🇱Seems only 2.378 votes, with 98% of the votes counted.

Care to know more about ongoing research projects at @ddc-sdu.bsky.social? Find out in the thread below, including one of my projects, the Marie Curie Scholarship 🇪🇺👇

ONLINE FIRST! Edina Strikovic & @hannescools.bsky.social find that audiences express deep concern over AI-generated news images. Media users fear misinformation and erosion of shared reality, highlighting the need for transparency and ethical newsroom policies. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🟥 D-Day voor de democratie vandaag. Maar ook voor onderwijs en onderzoek! Onderstaand overzicht geeft een idee op basis van NL verkiezingsprogramma's. Geen verdere bezuinigingen! via @remcobreuker.bsky.social

✨ New publication: 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬' 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐀𝐈 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐯𝐬. 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭. Especially relevant after yesterday's news of AI-generated images in political campaigns 👇 Together with Dina Strikovic (@ascor.bsky.social, @aimediademlab.bsky.social) 🧵

Interesting 🧐. This visual tells us more about the scale of AI-slop of political content (even surpassing Geert Wilders in total engagement). 👇

"GL-PvdA doet aangifte om AI-afbeeldingen van Timmermans" 🫠 Dit was niet een kwestie van óf het zou gebeuren, maar wanneer. AI-slop wordt steeds systematischer ingezet door politieke partijen (en hun aanhangers), en dan vooral aan de rechterzijde van het politieke spectrum. nos.nl/liveblog/258...

"Nederlands verdwijnt als wetenschapstaal: 97 procent van de doctoraten verschijnt in het Engels", kopt @standaard.be. Tja, als je papers of je doctoraat in het Nederlands schrijft, dan is het gewoon een zekerheid dat geen hond die gaat lezen. In België valt die ... www.standaard.be/binnenland/n...

Hear, hear! "AI zou een politieke topprioriteit moeten zijn (...) en dus verder moeten kijken dan AI als toverformule voor economische voorspoed." @dmugge.bsky.social & @marleenstikker.bsky.social in NRC vandaag 👇 www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

22 news organizations, including BBC, just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: across 4 LLMS, 45% of responses contained at least one significant issue of any type. Sourcing is the single biggest cause of significant issues (31%) 🤐🤐 www.ebu.ch/Report/MIS-B...

🧐De Nederlandse Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP) waarschuwt: chatbots geven vertekend stemadvies In de resultaten in Figuur 1 is te zien dat niet iedere partij even vaak wordt geadviseerd. Twee partijen komen opmerkelijk vaak op de eerste plek in het advies: PVV (30.5%) en GroenLinksPvdA (24.9%)👇

✨ New preprint: “𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥": 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬’ 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐈 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 To disclose or not to disclose, that's often the question for news organizations. Some findings from what audiences say 🧵 Full preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...

🧐 "This article was drafted with the help of an AI assistant before it was edited by a human" What does this mean, @journalismnews.bsky.social? Does this mean that raw (interview) data was processed through a LLM?

AWS as the latest example of why big tech dependency is not sustainable. 🆘 www.cnbc.com/2025/10/20/a...

Democracy dies in darkness... 🫠 Dozens of journalists just had to turn in their Pentagon press passes after virtually news outlets, from NYT to Fox News, refused to sign new rules requiring reporters to pledge not to gather info unauthorized by the Defense Department www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

📣 New Publication - 𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐁𝐂 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐝: Conducted 22 expert interviews & a workshop in London to explore the principles-to-practices gap of responsible AI at the BBC. 🧵 with some findings 👇

📣 Morgen spreek ik op het lustrum v Fonds Bijz Journalistieke Projecten in Felix Meritis, Amsterdam Panel over: Sterke pers, sterke democratie? Wat moet journalistieke antwoord zijn op toenemende antidemocratische tendensen? @coenvdven.bsky.social, @larabillierense.bsky.social fondsbjp.nl/lustrum/

🚨The European Commission has just launched the #AIAct #ServiceDesk, an innovative service to ask tailored questions on the AI Act's implementation and check your legal obligations under the AI Act. Includes: 🔍 Compliance Checker 🌐 Single Information Platform 👇 ai-act-service-desk.ec.europa.eu/en

New study by @felixsimon.bsky.social et al.👏 One result that stood out for me, and that should reassure news organizations (for now): Getting news via an AI system has doubled but remains a minority activity. Weekly use rose from 3% to 6%. 18–24s seem to use it slightly more. tinyurl.com/bdz957en

✨ Happy days - @tjthomson.bsky.social, Ryan Thomas & I are writing a book! A few months ago, we signed a book contract with Routledge on - you've guessed it already - 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 & 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 - a topic that has dominated the news since 2022. 📸 below, 1st in-person meeting in Denver, Colorado.

Belgian sports website @sporza.be is now asking ChatGPT to come up with five strategies for Evenepoel to beat Pogacar. Why delegate such questions to AI? Imo this is just a lazy form of journalism... Showing that we should not put too much capacity to tech 👇🫠 sporza.be/nl/2025/10/0...

New: EU will unveil plan targeting digital sovereignty as it warns technology can be ‘weaponised’ by geopolitical rivals. @bmoens.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/ea3d...

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...

“translated by DeepL,” which I guess is short for “Deeply Lazy"? www.hln.be/buitenland/b...

Here we go. It looks like personalized ads are very soon coming to ChatGPT. What could possibly go wrong? 🫠 AI anthropomorphism + AI feeds + personalized ads = the perfect (and highly profitable) manipulation machine. OpenAI was a nonprofit, no? Source: x.com/OpenAI/statu...

🚨 Job alert 🚨 My colleagues are looking for a PhD Candidate for the project "When Lies Take Root: Investigating the Impact of Misinformation on Those at Risk" DL: Oct 22nd @cos-ascor.bsky.social @christianburgers.bsky.social @tonivdmeer.bsky.social werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

🔥 Komt dat zien! Op 3 november gaan we het hebben over 𝗳𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗸 𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗜. Met Jan Postma (@groene.nl), Elisa Hulstaert @elisahulstaert.bsky.social (@knack.be) en mezelf. @aimediademlab.bsky.social, @ddc-sdu.bsky.social 📍De Buren, Brussel👇 deburen.eu/programma/fo...

‘When your country strips you of rights and protections, it tells you that it no longer recognizes you. Other times, you realize that you no longer recognize your country.´ Powerful column by M. Gessen on what it means to ´lose a country’ Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

🧨 AI is no longer optional, exhibit ∞ From Nov 3, LinkedIn will use your data to allegedly "enhance your experience". Opt out today! 👇 www.linkedin.com/help/linkedi...

🌞DDC RESEARCH RETREAT TIME🌞 Our biannual research retreat in Nyborg by the sea is in full swing. This time, we welcome a number of new faces as well as our various core members and cooperation partners, presenting & engaging with our interdisciplinary work. Talking, walking, developing new ideas 💡

🔥 The new incoming DIAS chair and @ddc-sdu.bsky.social professor, Jo Lukito, presenting her work including but not limited to online political communication, polarisation, and right-wing extremism on digital platforms. Welcome, @jolukito.bsky.social 👏🏻🙏 #ddcretreat

"Trapped in a ChatGPT Spiral." 🌀 Important work by @kashhill.bsky.social & @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com on how chatbots have a tendency to endorse conspiratorial and mystical belief systems. This shows again how conformist LLMs can be. Worth a listen 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/p...

✨ Grateful to give two presentations to journalists of the Baltics on October 3rd in Riga, Latvia. Co-organized by the Stockholm School of Media Studies and the Dutch Embassy in Riga. 🇱🇻🇳🇱🇸🇪 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/centre...

@lyngemoller.bsky.social presenting his work on the position of developers in peripheralised boundary actors in journalism. Especially valuable in relation to the complex relation between tech and ethics in newsrooms 🙏🔥 @cujournmedcul.bsky.social @ddc-sdu.bsky.social

"Cowardice is the enemy of good journalism (…) Facts are our superpower", @jodieginsberg.bsky.social, ceo of the Committee to Protect Journalists, opens the Future of Journalism Conf in Cardiff. Her keynote tackled how to save journalists & journalism in an age of rage @cujournmedcul.bsky.social

On my way to ‘Future of Journalism’ conference in Cardiff. One of my favourite gatherings of journo scholars all over 🚊🔥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @cujournmedcul.bsky.social First up today: serving as a respondent at PhD-colloquium pre-conference 🙏 @ecreacomdem.bsky.social cc @ddc-sdu.bsky.social

🗳️ ICA elections are open! Both @icahdq.bsky.social-wide and divisional elections matter. Our community is strong because people step up to share their time & talent. If you’re a member, please vote by 21 Oct, 12:00EDT. Your voice shapes ICA’s future. www.icahdq.org/page/Electio... #ICAElections

Copenhagen is so 2015. Go to Aarhus! 🇩🇰🔥😇 #timelinecleanse