Meta promised no political ads on their platforms 🛑 But political ads are still very present. @favstats.eu shows this for the Netherlands. And now several politicians were found advertising ahead of 🇩🇰 elections 🗳️ @madshovethy.bsky.social explains why this is problematic. www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

Converting a fully finished paper from LaTeX to Word is probably the most painful thing I have ever had to do. Is there really not any reeeeeeelatively easy way of doing it?

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“💪Get me ripped in 3 months.” hmmm no thanks Meta AI

Big tech has a tremendous impact on democracy 🚨New report out w focus on misinformation, content moderation & generative AI Team @anjabechmann.bsky.social @adler-nissen.bsky.social @madshovethy.bsky.social @golovchenko.bsky.social @fghjorth.bsky.social👏 Details⬇️ www.linkedin.com/posts/claes-...

📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 1/7 cup.org/4axBEXo

USA er en banarepublik, der ikke længere overholder international lov. Dets demokrati er i frit fald og vi må forvente, at staten i nogen grad disintegrerer og ikke længere kan løfte alle sine opgaver. USA er ikke længere vores allierede og des før det går op for os des bedre.

See you in Denver at #ICA25! I’m so happy to finally talk about this large cross-national collaboration we did last year! I was fortunate to assemble a team of extraordinary people to study the role of ad delivery algorithms in political campaigns by collaborating with 30+ parties across the EU.

A majority of Danes are in favor of the content moderation policy, which Meta now wants to remove. But there are also areas where most Danes believe that people can decide for themselves, e.g. whether women can share pictures of themselves topless on the beach. See a sample from our report below:

Having compiled the entirety of my dissertation for the first time has quite a surreal feeling to it

Meta drops content moderation which users want! ⛔ New data show that users (n=2000 Danes) both disagree with some of the announced changes (like referring to religious groups as stupid) *and* dislike some policies being kept. We need voices from users on this. And especially from non-US users.

But I just wrote a whole section in my dissertation on the backdrop that they want to get rid of politics on Meta, and I have to hand it in in three weeks. Grrrrr

Two salient facts about Facebook replacing its fact-checking program with community notes: (1) community notes are cheaper. (2) the incoming political regime dislikes fact-checking. So community notes are less trouble. The rest is just framing. Zuck's sole principle is to do what's best for Zuck.

Two things can be true: 1. AI is going to be an increasingly important part of work 2. Saying people need to be able to use AI well in its current form is like the silly obsession with making sure people had Windows PC skills when I was in college www.phillyvoice.com/college-stud...

Folk i Thy forstod ikke, hvad det der BMO, der blev solgt nede på caféen var, så ejeren har oversat til Thybomål 😅

Amsterdam ❤️

Finishing up my dissertation about microtargeted ads being like

Me: I need to write more pages in one day than I have ever done before. Overleaf:

Schrødingers julemand

Fun experience presenting research findings on online misinformation to public libraries in beautiful Southern Jutland 🇩🇰

Unique professorship. Please share 🫶♾️ Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social. Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile. 📆: deadline February 17! fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

No better writing retreat than this

Hello everyone! I made a starter pack for those researching and/or monitoring data-driven political campaigns, including techniques like political microtargeting 🎯 Let me know if you'd like to be included! go.bsky.app/NMTmqbH

Google will before Oct next year no longer allow political advertisements on their platforms -- says EU regulation introduces operational challenges and legal uncertainties blog.google/around-the-g...

PUBLICATION ALERT! Our new research in @journalqd.bsky.social maps the global landscape of political microtargeting across 95 countries during 113 elections. @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social, @madshovethy.bsky.social, @madshovethy.bsky.social, Tom Dobber, Natali Helberger, @claesdevreese.bsky.social.

Anyway, it is good that I am currently in Amsterdam and just got the third paper of my dissertation accepted, we (@meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social @madshovethy.bsky.social Tom Dobber Natali Helberger @claesdevreese.bsky.social) & I examine (micro)targeting strategies in 113 elections around the world.

Meta close Crowdtangle by August 14, 2024

To what degree and how do Danish political parties use online political microtargeting? @madshovethy.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @claesdevreese.bsky.social and Arjen van Dalen have written a chapter on that topic in the ‘election book’ by the Danish National Election Studies, out today!

"Today we got almost half of the vote." —Nikki Haley

“This year must be remembered not only for the scale of its elections but also for the speed and scale of democracy’s defense” Analysis of super 2024 🗳️ year + actionable points in Foreign Affairs. By Kat Duffy and Katie Harbarth. Polisky commsky polcomm www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

I can accept yy-mm-dd, but can we please get rid of mm-dd-yy

Yesterday, I discussed ad targeting on SoMe with my older brother, with him arguing that SoMe know more about you than you do yourself, Cambridge Analytica won the election for Trump, etc.. At some point, I asked him if he know what my PhD is about. He did not. Oh, how Christmas is wonderful.🙃

This is absolutely insane. On X you can target people with ads based on racist and antisemite keywords... Great work by Fabio here

Who wore it better?

Yes, Grammarly, I think that is a great suggestion!

Where do students get this perception that significant p-values are all there is? I supervised BA quant course students yesterday for their exam, and *multiple times*, I was asked, "Will my exam be evaluated poorly if I don't find a statistically significant relationship?"

Come and work with us in beautiful Amsterdam! We are looking for a PhD student to explore the 'Role of Social Norms in Negative Campaigning and Affective Polarization' Deadline: 10 Jan 24 Starting: Preferably April 24 All details: tinyurl.com/45ryj32t RT=🧡 @ascor.bsky.social, # commsky # polsky

What counts as an election win? Anglo media frame Wilders' plurality in 🇳🇱 as an "election victory", but multiparty systems are tricky. Take 🇩🇰 in 2015: the plurality winner lost government control, and the biggest loser by vote share formed a single party government instead 🙃

Three out of the four biggest winners barely spent any money on (targeted) Meta and Google ads. The 4th one (GL-PvdA) spent the most by far. This should caution us to not overestimate the effects of online political microtargeting. You can't just spend your way to victory by spending on targeting.

Watching 🇳🇱 election coverage -- in Dutch 🤪 . Good I have @favstats.bsky.social to explain whats going on 🤠

🧵Today is election day in the Netherlands. Together with @groene.nl and @whotargetsme.bsky.social we tracked online targeting and spending during this election campaign. This thread details some of the findings we have observed. #EUsky #polisky

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political practitioners & laypeople both perform barely better than chance at predicting the persuasive effects of political messages, with a lot of overestimation scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...

Hey Mr. DAG @p-hunermund.com (and Mr. DAG in spe @chdausgaard.bsky.social). I'm trying to implement a DAG in one of my dissertation papers, but I lack a good example of an emperical paper you think does this very well? I could browse, but this is more fun 🤪

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Super godt afsnit af #dkpol som altid @esben.bsky.social @jakobnielsen.bsky.social ! Snakken om, hvor crazy Halloween er i USA mindede mig om at amerikanerne bruger *flere* penge på halloween udklædning, slik mm. end *alle* politiske kampagner bruger i præsidentvalgsår til sammen. Det er 👻👻

Hello 🟦☁️ world. Any (semi)experts on ideal point estimation on the line? I am looking for readings to help me guide how to handle (extreme) outliers / observations with extremely high distances

friends tell friends not to interpret the coefficients of the control variables