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...

How would it impact people’s perception of news brands if they were transparent about the ideological leanings of their newsroom? In online experiments in US, DuBosar et al evidence of out-group disdain for the "other side", but not on in-group favoritism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Would a state-funded media ombudsperson with the power to conduct criminal proceedings against news outlets, and potentially much more - as is being considered in Denmark - increase trust in news? Wrote for @politiken on how research suggests it might undermine trust. Links below 1/2

“[Discover] allows Google to funnel more traffic to publishers as traffic from search declines" Buttle says. “Publishers have no choice but to agree or lose their organic search. [It] pulls in the opposite direction to the kind of relationship publishers want.” www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

13 media and journalists' associations - including the European Federation of Journalists and News Media Europe - publish joint letter warning against idea of creating a media Ombudsperson in Denmark with the authority to conduct criminal proceedings against news media via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel...

Do unreliable news sources do better on platforms than on the web? New work by Yang et al challenges this idea, at least for the most widely used platforms. “Only Twitter showed significantly increased visibilities of unreliable sources”, FB and YouTube did not academic.oup.com/joc/advance-... 1/3

Two things to read together - First, the status quo: "The Commission's own data suggests that 99% of its daily workloads rely on US technology: 14% on US public clouds [and] 85% on private cloud ... The remaining 1% runs on France-based OVHcloud." www.euractiv.com/section/tech... 1/2

"“The Trump-Vance FTC will never back down from taking on Big Tech”", the Trump-appointed FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson says. Amidst the warm words, there's a strong 'Nice business you have there. Shame if something should happen to it' vibe here? on.ft.com/4m9d3MQ 1/3

Ahead of US hearing on "Europe’s Threat to American Speech and Innovation" "more than 30 academics researching the EU Digital Services Act and civil liberties sent an open letter [to] correct persistent misconceptions that the DSA is a tool for censorship" husovec.eu/wp-content/u...

Last chance to submit your work on platform governance (in all its different forms) for PlatGovNet2025! Extended abstracts due September 2. Details below.

Millions of users are posting to social media and other platforms in languages with zero moderators, even within the EU. That's the topline finding from an impressive new working paper leveraging newly mandated transparency data under the DSA led by @manueltonneau.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/so...

Submit abstracts for PlatGovNet 2025 by September 2 - and share your work at a free, global, online conference for the interdisciplinary field of people researching platform governance, one of the defining issues of our time.

"Tech isn't about innovation, it's about power and networking chokepoints for power." Strong thread below (on an interesting FT opinion piece) And all very aligned with e.g. Nieborg & Poell's interesting research on institutional platform power journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨Deadline approaching for this years' PlatGov: abstracts welcome till Sept 2nd! Great chance to pitch your research and connect with wonderful people. @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social @digipolicy.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social

"The West is taking its "eye off the ball" by cutting media funding and "leaving the field open" to Kremlin and others Prof. Hutchings says. Was interviewed for this, stressing we shouldn't take self-promotional claims by propaganda outlets at face value www.bbc.com/news/article...

"People who believe the news is not made for them are reaping far fewer benefits from news, despite consuming more of it than their counterparts". Interesting work from Tabor et al on audience alienation (more common among young +less privileged) and consequences journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Two weeks left to submit to PlatGovNet 2025! We've got a good number of submissions already, make sure to share your extended abstract (800-1000 words) by September if you'd like to join us for this free online conference on platform governance December 1-2.

Misinformation often spreads via the top... "The [fabricated] video ... was eventually shown to be fake — but not before Donald Trump Jr. and Elon Musk shared the sham report to their millions of followers on X" www.politico.com/news/2025/08...