Marcus Bösch
@boesch.bsky.social
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Basically bookmarking here. Free Newsletter there:
http://understanding-tiktok.com
What I Read About AI in 2025
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What I Read About AI in 2025
From AGI to Workslop It's time for our annual tradition: a very long list of pieces written about AI this year that have stuck with me, for better or for worse. I've sorted them in alphabetical order...
https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-i-read-about-ai-in-2025/?ref=cybernetic-forests-newsletter
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Aura Farming OG
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Wall Street Journal on Diaper Diplomacy. Thanks AI
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/di...
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The Absurd Appeal of Videos That Turn Trump and Putin Into Babies
Social-media account called Diaper Diplomacy has emerged as a more palatable way to catch up on geopolitical news.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/diaper-diplomacy-hegseth-trump-putin-mamdani-ai-3a509d2e?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
3 days ago
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AI Slop for Babies. Yeah, i mean. Why not
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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YouTube Creators Find a New Consumer for AI Slop: Babies
As younger children spend more time on the platform, concern is growing that their brains are being shaped by AI-generated videos purporting to be educational.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-03/ai-slop-youtube-videos-for-kids-pretend-to-be-educational?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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No footage, no narrative, just noise.
www.milkkarten.net/p/what-makes...
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What makes a good social video?
I talked to Arjun Ram Srivatsa, who has worked with The New York Times, Pitchfork, and GQ, about his approach to making videos.
https://www.milkkarten.net/p/what-makes-a-good-social-video?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=5l2cy&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
3 days ago
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reposted by
Marcus Bösch
AI Forensics
5 days ago
🚨354 automated AI accounts generated 4.5 billion views on TikTok through more than 43,000 AI-made posts. Our investigation finds Agentic AI Accounts spreading harmful content. Yet TikTok labels around 1.38% of these posts. ⚠️ Full report:
tinyurl.com/4kkfm4nn
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TikTok Newsletter 146
tiktoktiktoktiktok.substack.com/p/146-prompt...
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"...hard-coding censorship and control into the future of AI."
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6 days ago
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Doing Memory. Digitale Erinnerungskulturen an nationalsozialistische Verbrechen auf TikTok.
kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/79194/
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Doing Memory. Digitale Erinnerungskulturen an nationalsozialistische Verbrechen auf TikTok - Kölner UniversitätsPublikationsServer
Universität zu Köln. Gute Ideen seit 1388
https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/79194/
6 days ago
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This symposium attempts to address these gaps and extend our understanding of computational propaganda beyond Western contexts.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Limits of Computational Propaganda: Investigating Underexplored Platforms and Contexts
Despite a growing body of literature on computational propaganda, significant gaps remain in the existing literature, particularly in its Western-centric focus and emphasis on leading platforms, su...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2025.2595596
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Full-Spectrum is the new term for total then?
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Full-Spectrum Propaganda in the Social Media Era
How do states wage propaganda campaigns in the social media era? Existing studies often investigate either covert fake accounts on social media platforms or overt propaganda on traditional broadcas...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09636412.2025.2563254?ref=disinfodocket.com
6 days ago
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This is most likely the most 2025 video i have come across so far.
x.com/kirkinator_s...
6 days ago
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Islamisten, Rechtsextreme und Piraten
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"Heute schlüssle ich für euch auf, worauf wir bei dem viralen Hit geachtet haben"
www.linkedin.com/posts/simon-...
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#tiktokawardsdeutschland | Simon Pycha
Zwei Millionen Aufrufe mit einem Video für 1LIVE bei den TikTok Awards! Heute schlüssle ich für euch auf, worauf wir bei dem viralen Hit geachtet haben: Um die Stars auf dem roten Teppich zu intervi...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/simon-pycha_tiktokawardsdeutschland-activity-7401174016205676544-J3gx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABNDo4YBXZchDnjOwMDzMRERmYfcEhztPto
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Kunstgeschichte und die Erforschung der (Neuen) Rechten - wi-rex
Bei der Frage, welche wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen die Strategien und Praktiken der (Neuen) Rechten erforschen können (und sollten), fällt den wenigsten die Kunstgeschichte ein. Und auch im Selbstverständnis der meisten Kunsthistoriker*innen gehört das Thema nicht zu ihrem Aufgabenbereich. Denn Kunst kann doch gar nicht rechts sein – oder etwa doch?
https://wi-rex.de/kunstgeschichte_neue_rechte/
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Performative Propaganda
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Performative Propaganda Engagement: How Celebrity Fans Engage with State Propaganda on Weibo
Authoritarian regimes have increasingly co-opted non-state actors such as celebrities and fans to extend the reach of state propaganda in fragmented digital environments. Despite this growing trend...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2025.2584999
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Citarella noted that he’s been warning, for more than half a decade, that too many people remain under the mistaken impression that “what happens on the internet isn’t real.”
www.newyorker.com/culture/podc...
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The Leftist Podcaster Who Studies Online Radicalization
Joshua Citarella sees his YouTube show “Doomscroll” as a “tactical media experiment” to funnel young internet users toward esoteric left-wing ideas.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/podcast-dept/the-leftist-podcaster-who-studies-online-radicalization
10 days ago
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The Slop Tax
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Slop Tax, a Brief Introduction
A Cultural Reinvestment Framework for the AI Age
https://substack.com/home/post/p-178858826
10 days ago
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
„We argue that existing methodologies for the analysis of visual content based on the notions of the metapicture are not yet fully equipped to account for the multi-layered, dynamic, and information-rich nature of audio-visual material.“ 💯
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Enriching the metapicture: How to analyse audio-visual content on TikTok and other platforms - Lucia Bainotti, Stijn Peeters, 2025
This article discusses a methodological approach to the study of audio-visual content on platforms like TikTok. We argue that existing methodologies for the ana...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448251387109
10 days ago
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Towards the Post-Naive Internet let's. get. into it.
kevinmunger.substack.com/p/towards-th...
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Towards the Post-Naive Internet
let's. get. into it.
https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/towards-the-post-naive-internet
11 days ago
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"...this transaction is more about geopolitics and ideology rather than a financial gain for investors... the big ‘winners’ will be in Israel"
internationalbanker.com/finance/is-t...
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Is the TikTok Sale Motivated by Geopolitical Factors?
On the surface, the sale of the influential TikTok application, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, to a group of prominent investors with US ties appears to be a sound investment. Others contend that g...
https://internationalbanker.com/finance/is-the-tiktok-sale-motivated-by-geopolitical-factors/
11 days ago
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JournalismAI Festival 2025 Videos
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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JournalismAI Festival 2025 - YouTube
The #JournalismAI Festival, supported by the Google News Initiative, is our flagship annual event, bringing together journalists, editors, and media leaders ...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpX7D4XQefABfc1BYeGJGHSzaWYJc5EZ8
11 days ago
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Slop Evader, a new browser tool that filters your web searches to only include results from before November 30, 2022 — the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
www.404media.co/slop-evader-...
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'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
https://www.404media.co/slop-evader-browser-extension-pre-generative-ai-search-filter/
11 days ago
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“High Agency Advanced Content” Ben Dietz
sic.substack.com/p/sic-374-ha...
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[SIC] 374: HAAC Mood
Vol 8, No. 14. New era reveal. [SIC] Talks with "Blank Space" author W. David Marks, HIP REPLACEMENT with James Whatley. Some actually good guides. And the liiiiiinks.
https://sic.substack.com/p/sic-374-haac-mood?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=74833&post_id=180053177&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=5l2cy&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
11 days ago
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Ian Bogost & the Slopverse
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Welcome to the Slopverse
Generative AI isn’t hallucinatory. It is multiversal.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/ai-multiverse/685067/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-atlantic-am&utm_term=The%20Atlantic%20AM
11 days ago
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News Daddy
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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Why college students prefer News Daddy over The New York Times
Zoomers get all their news from TikTok — and refuse to go elsewhere
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/818380/college-students-news-sources-tiktok-instagram-newsdaddy
11 days ago
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Trying to dissect how Sting (1987), Otto Waalkes (1993) and Ski Aggu (2023) ended up in an official Democrats TikTok Edit via the Mogged Meme (2025).
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12 days ago
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During the event, TikTok also announced a new Time and Wellbeing Space, which it said is designed to help users “relax and build mindful digital habits” while scrolling. 🤔 ....while scrolling....
www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/am...
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Amnesty to deliver global petition urging TikTok to protect young users from harmful content
Petition, signed by 170,240 people worldwide, will be handed over by 4 young digital rights activists from Ireland, Argentina and France - Anadolu Ajansı
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/amnesty-to-deliver-global-petition-urging-tiktok-to-protect-young-users-from-harmful-content/3753354
12 days ago
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You know children get in trouble for saying that {6 7} in our school.’ The PM apologised before pointing the blame at, er, the children. ‘I didn’t start it, Miss!’ he insisted.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/star...
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Starmer apologises over banned TikTok dance
Of all the things the public might think Prime Minister Keir Starmer should apologise for, a TikTok dance is probably not top of the list. Yet that is exactly what the Labour leader has expressed regr...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/starmer-apologises-over-banned-tiktok-dance/
12 days ago
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The rot is real. “Repeated exposure to highly stimulating, fast-paced content may contribute to habituation, in which users become desensitized to slower, more effortful cognitive tasks such as reading, problem solving, or deep learning.”
www.independent.co.uk/tech/tiktok-...
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TikTok and Instagram usage leading to brain rot, says APA study
The more short-form content a person watches on social media, the poorer their cognitive performance, the study found
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/tiktok-instagram-videos-brain-rot-b2871391.html
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America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
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America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
https://www.404media.co/americas-polarization-has-become-the-worlds-side-hustle/
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"Jetzt erleben wir, neben den vielen großen Veränderungen unserer Zeit, auch das Ausklingen der Bilderwelt der Neuzeit."
@fotografie.bsky.social
www.berndarnold.de/publikation/...
13 days ago
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Special Issue: WHAT ARE ANTIFASCIST GAMES?
eludamos.org/index.php/el...
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Special Issue: WHAT ARE ANTIFASCIST GAMES? | Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture
https://eludamos.org/index.php/eludamos/announcement/view/146
14 days ago
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A new feature on X has revealed that a huge number of large, divisive political accounts claiming to be Trump supporters are actually operating out of foreign countries.
weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/x-just-acc...
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X Just Accidentally Exposed A Vast Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans
How a new X feature led to the most sweeping public exposure of covert foreign activity on a major platform since 2016.
https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/x-just-accidentally-exposed-a-vast?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=874881&post_id=179774116&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=38eqq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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I have watched 1,000,000 TikTok videos. Here is my newsletter
tiktoktiktoktiktok.substack.com/p/145-the-gr...
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145: The Great Meme Reset
...before i had status and before i had a pager
https://tiktoktiktoktiktok.substack.com/p/145-the-great-meme-reset
15 days ago
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If it's no trouble, I would love to see it all
techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/t...
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TikTok will let you choose how much AI-generated content you want to see | TechCrunch
With the new AI-generated content control, users who want to see less of this sort of content can dial things down, while those who enjoy it can choose to see more of it.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/tiktok-now-lets-you-choose-how-much-ai-generated-content-you-want-to-see/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
16 days ago
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None of these people exist, but that hasn’t stopped them from posting profusely on TikTok
www.conspirator0.com/p/one-ai-gen...
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One AI-generated human race
None of these people exist, but that hasn’t stopped them from posting profusely on TikTok
https://www.conspirator0.com/p/one-ai-generated-human-race?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=846688&post_id=178898690&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=5l2cy&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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www.8ball.report/p/the-great-...
I have a different take here, but the expression „top down slop“ is nice
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the great meme reset of 2026
things right now 55—week of 11.17.25
https://www.8ball.report/p/the-great-meme-reset-of-2026?utm_campaign=post
17 days ago
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Given the current speed of meme hype cycles: Will anyone remember the great meme reset by January 1, 2026?
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19 days ago
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The status quo of political communication in 2025: rapid fire meme shitposting
ca.news.yahoo.com/gavin-newsom...
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Gavin Newsom Roasts ‘Piggy’ Trump in Flurry of AI-Generated Memes After President Lashes Out at Female Journalist
Sharing a photo of the president and Jeffrey Epstein to his X account, the California governor simply wrote: "Piggies."
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/gavin-newsom-roasts-piggy-trump-203738772.html
19 days ago
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Platform reveals it hosts more than 1bn AI videos and i have only seen 1 million so far
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Generative AI and Disinformation
ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
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Vol. 19 (2025) | International Journal of Communication
https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/issue/view/21
19 days ago
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Even the lawmakers behind the TikTok ban have no idea what’s going on
www.theverge.com/policy/82216...
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Even the lawmakers behind the TikTok ban have no idea what’s going on
TikTok was supposed to be banned from the US 10 months ago.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/822164/tiktok-deal-trump-china
20 days ago
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TikToks Church Testing made it to the New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/b...
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The Viral TikToks Testing Churches
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/briefing/nikalie-monroe-tik-tok-viral-church-test.html
20 days ago
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TikTok’s Great Meme Reset Of 2026
www.forbes.com/sites/danidi...
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TikTok’s ‘Great Meme Reset Of 2026,’ Explained
TikTokers believe that today’s memes have grown stale, proposing that the internet turn back the clock—here’s the Great Meme Reset, explained.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2025/11/10/tiktoks-great-meme-reset-of-2026-explained/
20 days ago
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It’s Cool to Have No Followers Now
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It’s Cool to Have No Followers Now
As social media has become older, more manipulable, and more automated by artificial intelligence, flouting online popularity has gained a new cachet.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/its-cool-to-have-no-followers-now?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
20 days ago
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reposted by
Marcus Bösch
Azade Kakavand (she/her)
21 days ago
📣 Das Social Media Observatory am
@bredowinstitut.bsky.social
und
@fgz-risc.bsky.social
lädt zum TikTok Starter Workshop ein! 🗓 Wann? 2.12. 13:00 - 3.12. 14:00 Uhr 🌐 Wo? Online (Zoom) 👨💻 mit
@boesch.bsky.social
,
@julianhohner.bsky.social
&
@lionw.bsky.social
Infos 👉
leibniz-hbi.de/hbi-events/t...
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TikTok Starter Workshop
Das Social Media Observatory (SMO) des Hamburger Standorts des Forschungsinstituts Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt (FGZ) veranstaltet einen Starter Workshop zum Thema TikTok. Der Workshop findet onlin...
https://leibniz-hbi.de/hbi-events/tiktok-starter-workshop/
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Welche Gesellschaft soll das widerspiegeln?
kaput-mag.com/catch_de/eri...
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Nostalgia humans vs. slop robots: Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned
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Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned
Twitter co-founder and blockchain evangelist Jack Dorsey has revived the six-second video platform, Vine — well, sort of.
https://futurism.com/future-society/jack-dorsey-vine-reboot-ai-content-banned?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
21 days ago
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