Yes, Vance is a fatuous, ahistorical moron without the slightest awareness of Operation Paperclip and its import to the U.S. Space Program. No, Mr. Sagal, you should not publicly correct him; this administration will, on second impulse, rush to praise Nazism for producing the best rocket scientists.

Cancel Culture!

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The United States will have control over TikTok’s algorithm in the acquisition of the social media platform’s US operations, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

At #ECREA-CLP, Evert Kanse is presenting our study "Who gets to be the DSC" on how EU and EEA member states picked their Digital Services Coordinators. In short: no pattern, expertise often used as a justification (but can mean very different things)

Fascinating panel at #ECREA-CLP on DSA implementation. First Sally Broughton and Krisztina Rozgonyi on how to evaluate risk mitigation, then Sara Solarova on algorithmic auditing and finally Rita Gsenger on content governance.

Opt out of LinkedIn using your data for AI training. Direct link: www.linkedin.com/help/linkedi...

#ECREA-CLP started with a keynote by Peggy Valcke @citip.bsky.social on media freedom and pluralism in the age of AI and platforms, sharing her optimism about EMFA's future impact.

The #ECREA-CLP workshop 2025 in Brussels is about to start.

On my way to ECREA-CLP.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “What of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know.”

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

I pray it's not the Ellisons. But it probably is. Imagine if they control CBS, CNN, and TikTok. Bessent: TikTok deal 'framework' reached with China, Trump and Xi will finalize it Friday cnb.cx/4645Eth

Ein weiterer berührender Text von Inna Hartwich zu Russland. taz.de/Abschied-von...

Es ist nur noch unglaublich. Die Washington Post von Jeff Bezos feuert ihre Kolumnistin Karen Attiah, die sich über Jahre immer gegen Gewalt und für freie Meinungsäusserung ausgesprochen hat. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

And here is @jamellebouie.net in column form. Excellent. Gift link: Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

Exclusive: Paramount Skydance is preparing a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery that is backed by the Ellison family.

i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social

SkyDance's takeover of WarnerBrosDiscovery would combine 2 of the biggest media giants in the world & represent the trumpification of US media, given the ties between SD owner Ellison & Trump. It could raise antitrust concerns, but that'd likely be kabuki theatre. www.reuters.com/business/med...

What John Oliver says. youtu.be/xk94il8L820?...

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Huch, die Zeitschirft «Schweizer Monat» musste im letzten Sommer saniert werden … 😲

We Have AI Now www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

2021 haben wir die privatisierte E-ID gestoppt – nun haben wir das E-ID-Gesetz 2.0 mitgeprägt: privatsphäre-freundlich, datensparsam & sicher, basierend auf digitaler Selbstbestimmung. Warum wir überzeugt Ja sagen & trotzdem kritisch bleiben: www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/2025/08/27/d...

This will not end well. The only thing that took me by surprise is the velocity of the United States' descent and the pervasive capitulation of institutions.

If you purchased a book between 2017 and 2025 that identified "wokeness" or left wing censoriousness as the major threat to free speech and democratic values, might I politely suggest you ask for your money back.

After 2 years of intense work on our FWO/SNF project on algorithmic recommender systems, Communication Theory just published our paper about the concept of epistemic welfare (open access). Thanks to Aaron Hyzen, @hildevdb.bsky.social, Michelle Kulig & Steve Paulussen doi.org/10.1093/ct/q...

My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.

Markus Somm

Italy’s colonial past was as brutal “as anyone else’s”, from poison gas in Ethiopia to concentration camps in Yugoslavia. Yet the nation hides behind the myth of the “good Italian.” https://f.mtr.cool/hlmlhmwlqk

Ich habe geschrieben, dass das Gerede von "woker Cancel Culture" bloß eine Verschwörungstheorie ist, und dass echte Meinungsunterdrückung viel eher von autoritären Regimes ausgeht. Das hat einige Leute schwer getriggert. Und das ist auch gut so. Aber ein paar Anmerkungen sind noch wichtig:

New open access publication on deepfakes in journalism together with Patric Raemy, Daniel Bendahan Bitton, Hannah Ötting, @cphoffmann.bsky.social & Alexander Godulla doi.org/10.1080/1461...

Besonders abwegig: Medienkritiker (!) Kurt W. Zimmermann, der behauptet, die @nytimes.com hätte den diplomatischen Erfolg Trumps gelobt. Tatsächlich hat sie den diplomatischen Erfolg Putins beschrieben, der viel bekommen habe, ohne irgendetwas zu geben.

Abschaffung #Eigenmietwert sei "ausgewogen", sagt der BR. Eine Steuersenkung um ~2 Milliarden - ohne nennenswerte wirtschaftliche Stimulierungswirkung, - zugunsten gutsituierter Haushalte, - in Zeiten angespannter Budgets, würde ich anders bezeichnen. www.news.admin.ch/de/newnsb/pD...

Good one 😆

How much can we blame social media for our polarized political climate? @danwphilosophy.bsky.social argues that the narrative that the platforms cause polarization “overlooks deeper political and institutional problems that are reflected on social media, not created by it.”

AOL To Discontinue Dial-Up Internet theonion.com/aol-to-...

“We won’t go back.” ‘View from the entrance to the Rohwer Internment Camp where my family and I were sent. Circa 1943.’

Heute gibt's auf Watson ein Interview von Aylin Erol mit mir zur Halbierungsinitiative und zum Service public. #Medienpolitik #PublicServiceMedia www.watson.ch/schweiz/inte...

Heute gibt's auf Watson ein Interview von Aylin Erol mit mir zur Halbierungsinitiative und zum Service public. #Medienpolitik #PublicServiceMedia www.watson.ch/schweiz/inte...

Right on schedule

Wird der neue dt. Kulturminister demnächst auch Museen empfehlen, was sie (nicht) ausstellen sollen oder dem Rundfunk, was er (nicht) senden soll? Dafür wäre er nämlich genauso (nicht) zuständig wie für ihre Kommunikation.

Deleting a post about Israel “accidentally” killing international journalists because I missed that they had declared them terrorists. Everyone involved in this genocide needs to be sent to The Hague bsky.app/profile/yasm...

Von ProSiebenSat.1 über Sport1 bis zu RTL und Sky Deutschland, noch dazu Warner Bros Discovery und RTLzwei. Dieser Sommer markiert den Startschuss des größten Umbruchs der deutschen TV-Branche seit zwanzig Jahren. Ein Kommentar.

Donald's performance review will be in Russian claimed territory of Alaska. Thank you for your attention in this matter.

Mine was different 🍿

Have agreed to meet Donald for his first 1-1 employee review of 2025.

Morgen tritt das sogenannte "Europäische Medienfreiheitsgesetz" (EMFA) eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten... in Kraft (mit Ausnahme des Art. 20). Das EMFA-Begleitgesetz, das noch notwendig ist, um Österreichs Rechtslage in Einklang mit dem EMFA zu bringen, ist offenbar in der Koordination verschollen /2