"What do you do in a world where the technology never centers you, the platforms never pay you, and there is no guarantee of visibility? Many newsrooms in the Global Majority have been living in this world for years" @jaemark.co writes, others could learn from them. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/as-a...

“Users don't want more control over their own experience. [They] want to have control over the experience of others [so] no matter how much content moderation I offer, and customize, and add different layers to, they're unlikely to be satisfied.” Sharp observation from @aaron.bsky.team #PlatGovNet

New report out on use of and perception of generative AI in Denmark, documenting rapid growth in use, more optimism than pessimism, but very differentiated expectations across different sector - with reservations about AI use by public authorities, media, politicians caisa.dk/forskning/ge...

“Over-moderation [by platforms designated under the DSA] may negatively affect civic discourse and create risks of negative effects on the fundamental right to freedom of expression and information.” That’s not a quote from J.D. Vance or Elon Musk. It is a quote from an EU report 1/5

Content moderation may be basically “unsolvable from a centralized standpoint, because there's no agreement on what is the problem for which [it] would be the solution. The way we deal with this at Reddit is by devolving the authority to take down content to the users”. Jessica Ashooh/PlatGovNet2025

Anyone interested in platform & AI governance check out the third annual PlatGov conference Mon/Tue - all online, free & truly global 🌍🌎🌏⌨️💽🤓 Here’s the program: platgov.net/assets/site/...

This Thanksgiving, professionally, I’m thankful for the opportunity to join the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at @harvard.edu as a Faculty Affiliate shorensteincenter.org/person/rasmu...

One week till we kick off PlatGovNet 2025, with civil society, industry leaders, practitioners, and scores of researchers coming together to discuss platform governance. Proud that @ucph.bsky.social can help host this online conference. Register here to join us: ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Yesterday, a "Digital Sovereignty Summit" in Berlin that Markus Beckedahl described as "largely a farce" and where Bruna Martins dos Santos described a "feeling [of] utter disappointment" in civil society. 1/4

Interested in platform governance, a defining issue of our time? Dec 1-2, PlatGovNet is hosting its 2025 online conference. 60+ presentations, conversations with civil society, Reddit, Bluesky. It is free to attend. Program platgov.net/assets/site/... Registration ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"These are all sensible, incremental proposals. [But] if public authorities really want to act they need to commit significant funding. It’s not clear the Democracy Shield represents a real qualitative jump in terms of money". Spoke with RTE about the EU's Democracy Shield www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...

“I have always felt it was important to take research out of academic journals and into the public sphere, to share with people what research has to offer, how it can help them make their own choices”. Wonderful lecture from Sun Sun Lim as she accepts her honorary professorship at U of Copenhagen.

What should be distributed to who, how, on what basis, why, and so what? These are six basic questions that must be answered if news is to receive public subsidies. In this piece for @reutersinstitute.bsky.social I outline a possible approach reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/taxes-n... 1/2

"Europe is preparing to roll back parts of its landmark digital rules, long seen as global benchmarks for privacy and AI" @ramshajahangir.bsky.social writes, as EU Commission prepares to unveil the “Digital Omnibus” which could reshape GDPR, AI Act, and more. 1/4 www.techpolicy.press/eu-set-the-g...

"Conversations about “internet sovereignty” should not mistakenly assume that the exercise of sovereign state power over corporations will necessarily translate into greater agency for its people", @prateekwaghre.com writes www.techpolicy.press/indias-searc...

Apropos... 1) For all its challenges the BBC is the single most widely used source of news in the UK and is highly and broadly trusted across much of the political spectrum,. See e.g. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism research here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/bbc-und... 1/3

A striking feature of Mamdani's victory is that a democratic socialist whole-heartedly campaigned on arch-capitalist social media platforms, and clearly felt better able to convey what he stood for and wanted via them than by engaging with news media politiken.dk/kultur/medie... 1/3

As COP30 gets underway, a good time to read @waqasejaz.bsky.social & co on how mainstream news use is associated with stronger pro-climate behavioural intent across eight countries covered in their study (Brazil, France, Germany, India, Japan, Pakistan, UK, US) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Maybe people sometimes enjoy synthetic things? “As the entertainment magazine recently pointed out, at least one AI or AI-assisted artist has charted in each of the past four weeks, a “streak suggesting this trend is quickly accelerating.” futurism.com/future-socie...

What if people appreciate having an abundance of content and communication, more than they feel overloaded by it? @annisch.bsky.social et al decided to have a look. Their results? "We found that appreciation for abundance was about twice as common as overload". Paper: journalqd.org/article/view...

’Mediestøtte for borgerne – demokratisering, fremtidssikring, og forenkling’ The report from the Commission on the Future of Media Subsidies that I have chaired in Denmark is now out kum.dk/fileadmin/_k... In near future I'll write a bit about this in English too - stay tuned!

What kinds of creators work on news and around news? Many defy categorisation, but, on the basis of open survey responses, Nic Newman & co have developed an audience-based typology of news-creators and news-adjacent creators Read the report here reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news-creator...

How direct, at risk of producing shocking, offensive, disturbing content, are different AI chatbots? Read review of major AI chatbots by @jordicalbad.bsky.social & co here, documenting range from very blunt to "softly moderated" bots like Alibaba's and DeepSeek futurefreespeech.org/wp-content/u...

What does digital sovereignty mean in Europe, in a country like Denmark with the GDP of Chongqing or Miami? What commitments do politicians think we should make, which trade-offs, what price are they asking us to pay? Wrote about these questions in @politiken.dk politiken.dk/del/JRqgI_AF...

How do people use AI tools for health information? @cward1e.bsky.social & co asked them - through 27 qualitative interviews, they document users' "sophisticated “mix-and-match” behaviors, drawing on multiple tools depending on context, urgency, and familiarity." www.jmir.org/2025/1/e79961

Actual (dis)honest-to-god fake news, from the looks of it commercial spammers partying like it is 2016, only on Tiktok.

"Could [journalism] shape the foreground [of AI content] as the sensemaking layer that anchors trust? The News Atom is a metadata blueprint designed to respond to this question." Read @sannuta-raghu.bsky.social here. She is an inspiration. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/introducing-...

"I will try to imagine a positive future for news in a world of ubiquitous AI. I will try to be relentlessly ‘user-centric’, prioritizing individual consumers in their lives" Read David Caswell's essay here (with sequels to come): reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/cusp-ab...

Last week I posted a thread on how people are using generative AI - bsky.app/profile/rich... This thread is on how people use gen AI for news, specifically. Though getting information is emerging as the key use of gen AI, only 6%on average across 🇦🇷🇩🇰🇫🇷🇯🇵🇬🇧🇺🇸 use it for news weekly, doubling since 2024.

"The generative AI wave isn’t coming — it’s already here, and it’s reshaping how the public finds information." @felixsimon.bsky.social has written about our recent report, including rapid growth in how many (and how) people use generative AI to get information www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...

"Russia is moving, no, running towards an inside-net. Not only access to news and information, but even to people-to people communication with those from abroad, is shrinking day by day." Read Daria Dergacheva in Global Voices globalvoices.org/2025/10/07/i...

A thread on how people's use of generative AI has changed in the last year - based on survey data from 6 countries (🇬🇧🇺🇸🇫🇷🇩🇰🇯🇵🇦🇷 ). First, gen AI use has grown rapidly. Most people have tried out gen AI at least once (61%), and 34% now use it on a weekly basis - roughly doubling from 18% a year ago.

✨🤖 Check out our new research on AI use around news and information and attitudes towards AI in society and journalism – with @rasmuskleis.bsky.social & @richardfletcher.bsky.social

How do people think different sectors’ use of generative AI will change their experience of interacting with them? More optimists than pessimists for e.g. science and search engines, but more pessimists than optimists for news media, government, and – especially – politicians 1/3

"Time spent on social media peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline" John Burn-Murdoch notes. For those interested in screen use in a broader sense, worth comparing to e.g. Ofcom figures on TV/video watching as a reminder of just how much time most of us spend with the big screen.

AI capex investment follows "patterns from the introduction of nearly all general-purpose technologies", which delivered real change even as "bubbles burst either due to regulation, increased competition, or the buyers of the products being unwilling, or unable, to sustain" demand on.ft.com/46QMGW4

When will OpenAI have one or more services covered by the EU's Digital Services Act? ChatGPT search will almost certainly have 45+ million monthly users next time they report, so could jump straight into Very Large Online Search Engine (VLOSE) category www.mlex.com/mlex/artific... 1/2

Spent all day in Brussels discussing DSA, systemic risks, mitigation measures, and where news media fits in to all of it. Consistently impressed by the thoughtful professionalism of the civil servants I meet and encouraged by the commitment of the MEPs who care about these issues

Disney/ABC caved and settled in December, Meta in January, X in February, Paramount/CBS in July, and now in September YouTube too. www.ft.com/content/8084...

"If we’re going to have a good relationship going forward, you can’t have legislation that punishes companies from . . . your ally" US Ambassador to the EU says. They don't like DSA, DMA, and AI Act. Let's see how they react to "Buy European" clauses www.ft.com/content/b6d9...

If getting TikTok U.S. for 1/10th of the market price is the quid, what might the pro quo be? www.theinformation.com/articles/tik...

"As journalists, we must believe that there are more people who want information than the opposite", says Christian Jensen. "That there are more people who want the truth than the opposite". politiken.dk/del/SDfenpAE...

Most creators "never promised to do journalism, and that is not the expectation among the citizens who choose to follow them". The public increasingly "just want to hear it from the horse's own mouth." Talked creators and more with Andreas Esbjørnsen www.weekendavisen.dk/kultur/postj...

"Public service loses its impact if we speak to the masses but do not reach the individual. We must do away with one of the most persistent misconceptions: that personalization and public service should be opposites." (My translation) politiken.dk/debat/kronik...

"When right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk was shot [the] next thing that followed was typical of any tragedy these days: a whirlwind of online misinformation. Except, it also included AI-generated false claims" from e.g. Grok, Google AI Overviews www.techpolicy.press/what-does-it...

A global call, orchestrated by the Forum on Information and Democracy, urges policy makes to act to protect public interest media. There are many policy tools available. When most governments do not do anything, that is a choice as well. informationdemocracy.org/2025/09/22/p...

"Today," New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger says, "we’re seeing [the anti-press playbook] deployed in the United States, a country long synonymous with press freedom." Read his speech here www.nytco.com/press/ag-sul...

"If the EU ends up legislating [about encryption] on a technically incorrect basis, we could be left with a law that neither protects children nor citizens' right to privacy – but instead makes everyone more vulnerable" @moltke.bsky.social writes. www.dr.dk/nyheder/vide...

What if one could automatically monitor what politicians promise and enhance the ability to check, at scale, whether they deliver? Pledgetracker, by @fullfact.org and researchers, tries to retrieve relevant evidence and reduce human verification effort. Read their preprint here: lnkd.in/ec5gHYV9

Untrustworthy information is a “factor whose relationship with beliefs is contingent upon environmental context, individual predispositions, and exposure volume" and not a uniform influence, Dahlke and Hancock show in paper based on two-wave survey and browsing data tsjournal.org/index.php/jo...