Never thought we'd see the US Government ban and deport staff from think tanks and NGOs that campaign to uphold key tenets of liberal democracy. Yet here we are. There are potential further implications for probably tens of thousands of academic researchers around the world. Extraordinarily grim.

New paper! In @icsjournal.bsky.social I argue that governing #AI means “scale work” — the labour of stabilizing AI *across* relationships that are usually tackled in isolation. I use journalism’s GenAI encounters as a case study, connecting siloed AI collisions www.tandfonline.com/eprint/T7WWF...

European Commission issues €120 million fine to Elon Musk's X under the Digital Services Act. "The breaches include the deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark', the lack of transparency of its advertising repository, and the failure to provide access to public data for researchers."

Dame Sara Khan, former govt adviser on social cohesion, responds to my story and also calls on the government to leave X 👇

Much will be said about the British Broadcasting Corporation over the coming days and weeks. But let’s consider for a moment the broader role it and similar public service media organizations play in the increasingly dysfunctional media systems we see around the world.

I spoke to Christian Saathoff of ARD's Tagesschau for his feature report about the online disinformation and misinformation swirling around the issue of immigration and asylum in the UK. www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder...

Excited to share that, with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social , we’ve published a new article in New Media & Society! We examine how far-right actors on X (formerly Twitter) instrumentalize wellness culture to spread reactionary ideology. Thread below 🧵

I have to say... I hope that so-called "AI-powered" browsers really do develop into something genuinely agentic and therefore useful for everyday work and leisure. But having watched the OpenAI Atlas demo video, it's starting to feel like...

The latest illustration of a key point often forgotten by the platforms: experiences of AI will never be universal or monolithic and will always be shaped by social inequalities and preexisting vulnerabilities of many different kinds www.wsj.com/tech/ai/teen...

Really important read. Shame is a powerful social emotion—it is the negative feeling one has upon perceiving that others will think poorly of them for failing to adhere to a norm. newrepublic.com/article/2015...

I am very honoured to be awarded the Simon Fraser University's Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy On behalf of all of my colleagues @citizenlab.ca and our partners around the world thank you for this recognition of our work youtu.be/41wkXFyEsP8?...

NEW: Last month Trump and RFK Jr announced the FDA was was recommending a new drug to treat autism — leucovorin But they failed to provide any more information. So parents flocked to a Facebook group, that quickly filled with chaos, confusion and conspiracies www.wired.com/story/chaos-...

The new EU rules on political advertising online take effect October 10. Google and Meta (FB, Insta) will stop political ads on their platforms 🛑 But when??? FB is now very explicit about when it takes effect: October 6 www.facebook.com/business/hel...

Good mentoring can break down class barriers: an open approach to knowledge and a kind, enabling manner helps students go their own way but never feel alone, says Andrew Chadwick https://ow.ly/H8H650X4lsq

My PhD supervisor, Professor Rodney Barker, who had a long and distinguished career at LSE, died recently. Last week I wrote an article for @timeshighered.bsky.social reflecting on the transformational influence of his mentoring style. It's out today www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/good...

Sum: pseudoscience, lies, and fearmongering nonsense. Those with a science background - Makary, Bhattacharya, Oz, etc - MUST know this is harmful BS. They MUST know they are enabling authoritarian BS. Integrity black hole. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Google's AI summary is telling users Arsenal footballer Declan Rice donated £14m to a London housing project. But the story's not true.

This coverage also finally moves past claims of “unprecedented” — NONE of this is unprecedented. The only way to see it as such is to ignore the rest of the world, much less history.

Happy to help @gregbarradale.bsky.social with this story for @bigissue.com. Is it too much to expect platforms' AI summaries to at least get the big things right? Have a read.

This is so preposterous I could imagine Banksy staging it as part of the piece itself. Alas, I doubt that’s the case.

LinkedIn + UK universities = institutional isomorphism

“Russia targets WhatsApp and pushes new 'super-app' as internet blackouts grow” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Want to get a sense of my book with @ekvraga.bsky.social but not ready to commit? @oxfordacademic.bsky.social has released Chapter One free and downloadable for the next month. academic.oup.com/book/60489/c...

How does credibility work on personal channels such as WhatsApp? Find out here 👇

On #WhatsApp, labeling a message as coming from a respected outlet like #BBC News can make false information seem as credible as true news. Vaccari, Chadwick, Hall & Lawson explore this effect through an experiment with 2,580 UK users. doi.org/10.1177/1077... @profdimitrova.bsky.social #commsky

Excited to present this great essay by Ashanty Rosario, a talented young journalist who attends Newtown High School in Queens, about how she's experienced the arrival of AI in the classroom. "These programs have destroyed much of what tied us together as students."

Blue Note legend Horace Silver was born on this day September 2, 1928. Stream our playlist "Horace Silver: The Finest" bluenote.lnk.to/HoraceSilver... Pre-order the pianist’s previously unissued 1965 live album “Silver In Seattle: Live At The Penthouse” out 10/24 horacesilver.lnk.to/SilverInSeat...

I was happy to be interviewed by @robynvinter.bsky.social for this @theguardian.com In Focus feature. It presents important, often overlooked, facts of the case while also reflecting on the bigger picture for media and politics. Have a read: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Eloquent article by @sivav.bsky.social on the cultural revolution going on in US universities: newrepublic.com/article/1973...

Here's the excellent original investigative report from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social at Reuters www.reuters.com/investigates...

"According to Meta’s 200-page internal policy seen by Reuters, titled 'GenAI: Content Risk Standards', the controversial rules for chatbots were approved by Meta’s legal, public policy and engineering staff, including its chief ethicist." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Happy to help Matt and NS with trying to get to the bottom of what has been going on here. Have a read of the article, consider the evidence presented in it, and you’ll see.

Keir Starmer's Government Still Hasn't Reviewed Use of Musk's X Despite Platform 'Amplifying Hate Speech and Misinformation'

NEW: ChatGPT allows Google to index chats users share using the Share functionality - presumably misinterpreting "make this chat discoverable". The result? Frank admissions about sex lives and drug dependencies. My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo... tip @techmeme.com

Social media giant Meta announced today that it will stop running political, electoral or social issue advertising in the EU from October, instead of complying with the bloc's transparency rules for political advertising. www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

It was with overwhelming sadness that I read this morning that Professor Rodney Barker recently died. He was my PhD supervisor at the LSE and the smartest, wittiest, kindest, and most supportive academic I have known. He changed my life. A personal note: www.andrewchadwick.com/blog/2025/7/...

A great initiative, a long time coming. I hope the framework that evolves is more holistic and includes digital media literacy and hard thinking about the impact of today's information environment on our new young citizens. That one paragraph (19) is doing heavy lifting! www.gov.uk/government/p...

I wonder if it’s possible to place a bet that TNT Sports’ coverage next year will be worse than ITV’s? What are the odds? I certainly won’t be paying £31.99 a month (£384 annually!!!).

Great thread. I've never really cycled other than as a commuter. But I've watched it for at 15-20 years. I even went to Paris for the finish once because it's so immense. Always inspired by the TV coverage. I can't beleieve it won't be on anymore. It's a crime!

A long, long time ago I was deep into racing cycling. Back then, at this time of year, I’d spend almost every day tearing around the North Yorkshire moors and coast with a small group of similarly mad close mates. I seemed to be quite good at going up hills. Given the terrain, I needed to be. (1/?)

Between traditional journalism and social media, we were supposed to (debatable) end up with a mix of authoritative and democratic platforms for sharing information. We've ended up with authoritarian, libertarian, superficial information systems, that are at best bonkers, and at worst dangerous 👇

A great album. Especially in the summertime. With a beverage.

A researcher says 245 extensions on nearly 1M devices are overriding security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites for a paid service (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

It must be great to be one of those academics that continually says there’s nothing to see here, it’s all exaggerated, it’s hype, nothing’s wrong, you’ve all got it wrong, everything’s fine, you’re looking at the wrong evidence etc etc.

🧵In 2018 the Senate Intelligence Committee asked me to field a team and analyze a data set that social media platforms had turned over: several hundred gigs of data chronicling a multi-year effort to divide American society *and* interfere in an American election www.lawfaremedia.org/article/retc...

How We Can All Respond to Misinformation academic.oup.com/book/60489 by @leticiabode.bsky.social @ekvraga.bsky.social Needed: "...correcting publicly to build social norms around responding to misinformation." Platforms must "promote corrections & take action against toxic behaviors."

This was a logical development for the ideological platform mogul. Embedding biased and prejudiced AI, which was allegedly deliberately trained that way, or at the very least was negligently non-guardrailed, is the logical next phase in the decline of the general, "neutral" platform.

Now published! @leticiabode.bsky.social and @ekvraga.bsky.social's exciting new book, Observed Correction: How We Can All Respond to Misinformation on Social Media. Leticia and Emily are trailblazing pioneers in the research about online misinformation. (1/3)

Forgot I'd written this. Funny it has resurfaced today, because I'm speaking about this tomorrow at QMiP!

Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD. Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?