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#OutNow in #iCS Using panel surveys from Greece and Brazil, this article shows that low news use is tied to higher belief in misinformation and lower trust in elections. In contrast, people who selectively avoid political news are less likely to vote. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication, edited by @alessandronai.bsky.social, @maxgroemping.bsky.social, and @dominiquewirz.bsky.social is now out! You can see all entries here: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/elg...

🚨Tem artigo novo na área! @antoniskalog.bsky.social, @patyrossini.bsky.social, @lamprinirori.bsky.social e eu investigamos as implicações de evitar notícias na Grécia e no Brasil. O artigo completo tá disponível aqui (ou me mande uma DM se não conseguir acessar): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨New publication alert! @antoniskalog.bsky.social, @patyrossini.bsky.social, @lamprinirori.bsky.social and I investigated the implications of news avoidance in Greece and Brazil. We looked at how different patterns of news avoidance relate to misinformation, trust, and electoral participation

New study with @camilambpp.bsky.social, @patyrossini.bsky.social & @lamprinirori.bsky.social on news avoidance in Greece and Brazil. We examine how different patterns of news avoidance relate to misinformation, trust and participation during elections.

NEW! How should Labour respond to the two key issues to voters of the economy and immigration and what are the electoral stakes this week of the budget? Read on for our answer... @nprcoxford.bsky.social @jrf-uk.bsky.social

Bolsonaro é preso preventivamente a pedido da PF glo.bo/3Xc8VBy #g1

Coisas que são SEMPRE emocionantes, não tem conversa 🥹

Who will be the next director-general of the BBC? on.ft.com/4oDzZWs

So No 10 was given the opportunity of a quiet week due to the attacks on the BBC and decided to be the story again by tearing itself apart in public?

One of the most revealing things in the piece is how trusted the BBC is across the political spectrum. Half of right-leaning Brits say they trust it. By comparison, only 26% of right-leaning Brits say they trust The Sun

Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments: One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.

As the BBC faces fresh scrutiny, what does our research say about it? Here's an updated version of a piece by @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @annisch.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social and Craig T. Robertson originally published in 2020 📱 Full piece here buff.ly/iLaMzHa 🧵 4 findings in thread

We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

The Andrew formerly known as Prince www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

Our new report on news influencers and creators is out. It contains: - 5 key findings (see link) - Top 15 most mentioned news influencers and creators by survey respondents in 24 countries - A typology of different content types (and examples of individuals that primarily produce each)

a matéria da Lupa e do Indicator sobre o mercado do TikTok Dark vale a leitura. basicamente usam documentos estrangeiros falsos pra monetização de conteúdo. imediatamente pensei em como campanhas ano que vem podem usar estratégias semelhantes - ou já estão usando lupa.uol.com.br/jornalismo/2...

NEW on @indicator.media: I found 101 accounts impersonating Telemundo, Televisa, CNN and other media outlets spreading clickbaity falsehoods to millions on TikTok. The company took them all down after I reached out.

A revista Pesquisa Fapesp fez uma reportagem tratando do nosso artigo, liderado por @sachaltay.bsky.social com dados do @reutersinstitute.bsky.social, sobre os efeitos de correções feitas por usuários em combater desinformação. revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/comentarios-...

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.

No time to read the long version of our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social research on use & views around GenAI, information, and news in 6 countries? Then read the summary, just out with @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...

How do people use generative AI in their daily lives? And how do they use it for news? These are two of the questions we explore in a new report, based on fresh survey data from 🇦🇷🇩🇰🇫🇷🇯🇵🇬🇧🇺🇸 🔗 Full report buff.ly/mv3Jc5r 🧵 Key findings in thread

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...

48% of US teens say social media sites have a mostly negative effect on people their age, up from 32% in 2022. But fewer teens (14%) think social media sites negatively affect them personally. www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

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/...

It’s been at least a decade that the Brazilian left isn’t capable of getting so much people in their protests. The combination of Bolsonaro trying to be saved by Trump and the House trying to approve a bill to make sure no MP is punished ever seems to have resurrected lefties' demonstrations

NEW: Broadcasters now in no doubt about the all consuming power of YouTube - they join forces for govt/regulators to step in for fairer revenue and prominence… YouTube take a big slice of ad revenue. All a sign of the power YouTube now wields… www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

After Bolsonaro's trial last week, I've written about how the disinformation campaign and attacks on journalism were part of a broader strategy to erode democracy in Brazil. English here:

Após o julgamento do Bolsonaro e cia, escrevi pro @theconversation.com Brasil sobre como a operação de desinformação e o ataque ao jornalismo eram também uma estratégia antidemocrática para subverter a democracia theconversation.com/estudo-mostr...

Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to more than 27 years in a Brazil prison for attempting a coup after losing the 2022 election.

Imagine if in 2015 someone said Trump would be destroying the American democracy in a second term while Brazil would be punishing an authoritarian former President for coup attempt

Breaking news: Brazil’s supreme court has voted to convict former president Jair Bolsonaro for plotting a coup d’état, finding that the hard-right populist and Donald Trump ally sought to illegally remain in power after losing a 2022 election. on.ft.com/41NF7hi

Brazil’s Supreme Court reached a majority to convict the right-wing leader Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a coup to overturn the 2022 presidential election.

Most work out there argues that it doesn't pay off for center-right parties to move closer to the far-right. Using some of the best evidence yet, this paper shows that the same is true for center *left* parties. Crucial finding as these parties increasingly move in a nativist direction.

An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Brazil’s supreme court judge orders house arrest of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro Bolsonaro accused of breaking ‘preventative measures’ imposed amid concerns of avoiding penalty over alleged coup attempt www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Many years later, as he faced the hiring board for a non-teaching job, chemistry teacher Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when Meta took his pupils to discover a chatbot

So the UN Global Risks Report is out... & it lists Mis- and Disinformation as the biggest risk we face. unglobalriskreport.org Listen... I'm a mis- and Disinformation kinda guy, meaning I worry about this professionally. But there is no way this issue should be all the way up there! Plus...

How Fox News is covering the Trump vs Murdoch blockbuster https://on.ft.com/4f5dm9t

BBC NEWS / AFP / BBC NEWS / REUTERS JOINT STATEMENT: “We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families. "They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering. "

New research note led by @sachaltay.bsky.social on user corrections

"Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and imprisoned people in our ranks, but none of us remembers seeing a colleague die of hunger."

Trump’s attempt to intervene in Bolsonaro’s judgment isn’t going well for the former President and his allies. Besides the ankle tag for him, Lula’s government had good news in terms of popularity for the first time in the year this week

The Portuguese far right party CH has been growing spectacularly, shattering views of the country as immune to this phenomenon. This has prompted a discussion about where their votes come from. Some thoughts on this, prompted by newly released survey data:

Future might prove me wrong, but if I had to bet what's the real motivation for Trump's Brazil tariffs blackmail it's the recent big tech regulation. It will be quite curious if he drops the retaliation if the Congress changes the law after the Supreme Court ruling that is making big tech angry

As early-career colleagues start thinking about autumn job applications, I wrote a piece describing my post-PhD path. Reflecting on "project," "person," and "place" with mentors helped me immensely, so I hope this note pays it forward somehow. www.wlallen.com/wp-content/u...

A entrevista do Eduardo Bolsonaro à Folha é bem reveladora de que o plano é manter o Brasil refém até que houvesse algum recuo no processo do golpe. Nenhum constrangimento em colocar o próprio benefício em primeiro lugar www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2025/0...

Jornalistas nessa rede, o @nucleo.jor.br, junto ao @elclip.bsky.social, vai realizar um treinamento na Costa Rica para aumentar capacidades de investigação de Big Techs, totalmente de graça e com todas as despesas pagas. As inscrições vão até dia 14/07/2025 bigtechlab.nucleo.jor.br

Want to easily scrape data from TikTok? There's an R package for that! traktok "While it is neither the first nor only tool to do so ... the [package provides] ... an easy-to-understand consistent syntax [meant] to encourage TikTok research" osf.io/preprints/so...