We're looking for outstanding mid-career journalists to join our fellowship programme in 2026-27. Explore the future of journalism through an immersive programme of seminars, events, discussions and a personal project. Deadline to apply: 13 Feb

Information integrity is much discussed these days, but how is it defined, and can current uses be practically applied to messy, sprawling national information ecosystems? @kamyayadav.bsky.social, @samlai.bsky.social and @lageneralista.ca explore in this chapter: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

I wish I could say I did this in Croatian - Moram vježbati. But in all seriousness, a huge thank you to Ivana Dragicevic for thinking of me and posing challenging questions! The English version is in the comments: www.telegram.hr/velike-price... cc: @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

🎧 Looking for a great audio interview? CSDI Director @heiditworek.bsky.social spoke to KKFI Radio about the modern communication landscape, what we can learn from media trends of the past, and much more. kkfi.org/program-epis...

If you'd like a sneak peek at The Information Animal, @hilltimes.com has an excerpt in this week's paper, which we've unlocked for a limited time here - it's from one of my favourite chapters looking at Finland www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

Our own @lageneralista.ca was on CBC’s The House this weekend talking about her book “The Information Animal”. Listen here 👉🏼 Did Putin triumph over Trump at the Alaska summit? www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

No summer break for disinfo tracking! 🕶️🔥 Freshly updated factsheets – narratives, key cases, policy responses & community – are now available for: 🔹 Lithuania www.disinfo.eu/publications... 🔹 Latvia www.disinfo.eu/publications... From our EU-wide series 🌍💪 www.disinfo.eu/publications...

We already have over 100 sign-ups but a few spots are still available for Day 1 of the Data Access Days on research access to platform data under the Digital Services Act (DSA) — happening on 25 September 2025. Join us in Berlin! 👉 dsa40collaboratory.eu/data-access-... #DSA40 #DigitalServicesAct

🚨Fantastic project based at a great institution 🚨

On our latest episode, Chris talks with @lageneralista.ca Alicia Wanless about her book “The Information Animal”, which explores how disinformation, strategic communication, and the competition for reality are reshaping our world. Listen & watch here 👇👇👇 🎧 pod.fo/e/3083cd 🎥 youtu.be/7nsXSlXoiBU

Canada’s digital sovereignty (or lack thereof) is a growing concern. @heiditworek.bsky.social and @lageneralista.ca argue that to build an independent tech 'CanStack', policymakers need to start with a full assessment of the information ecosystem. www.cigionline.org/articles/how...

Sovereignty is deeply tied to information ecosystems – from digital platforms to local news. Is Canada truly resilient? This article by @heiditworek.bsky.social and @lageneralista.ca breaks down Canada's vulnerabilities and what to do about them www.cigionline.org/articles/how...

Join us on June 11 at @carnegieeurope.bsky.social for a special event with @spokesperson.europarl.europa.eu, Marie-Doha Besancenot, @aa.disinfo.eu and our own @lageneralista.ca carnegieendowment.org/events/2025/...

Liverpool police were quick to release demographic information of the driver who rammed his car into a crowd last month. This move was an attempt at quelling misinformation – but was it enough? @lageneralista.ca ‬ weighed in for Emissary: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

Recommend reading BBC Director General Tim Davie's recent speech - a clear (and therefore necessarily contentious) vision for the future of public service, including the necessity and desire to work with digital platforms to be able to “serve everyone, everywhere” www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

It's befitting that my first media interview about The Information Animal is with Tiedeykkönen on Yle given Finland is featured in a book chapter areena.yle.fi/1-73932664 - @hurstpublishers.bsky.social will have the first books in hand next week! Exciting and terrifying all at the same time!

🚨THIS WEEK🚨 Join us in-person or online for two timely discussions on platform liability, litigation, and the evolving digital ecosystem. 🔗 Register Here: kgi.georgetown.edu/events/

It's well known that politicians take more extreme positions during primaries. In @electoralstudies.bsky.social, we find this shift is much more likely when incumbents in safe seats face a well-funded primary challenger. 🧵👇 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kn5KxRaZn...

Varying contexts affect how people around the world understand the information environment. In this compendium edited by @samlai.bsky.social, six experts offer perspectives that key decisionmakers may neglect when they conduct international work on the information environment:

Our very own @samlai.bsky.social will be speaking at this panel next Wednesday. Learn more here:

Welcome to #WorkWednesday! Read on for a thread of jobs and opportunities related to conflict and governance in the information environment.

CDT’s CEO Alexandra Reeve Givens joins the @lawfare.bsky.social’s podcast to discuss the Paris #AIActionSummit & whether it signals a shift from AI safety to AI security. What would this mean for global AI governance? Tune in for expert insights! www.lawfaremedia.org...

🚨 AI, music & extremism 🎵 Join us as we explore "Melodies of Malice" and uncover how far-right communities leverage AI to transform the landscape of music propaganda and spread disinformation across mainstream platforms. 📅 6 March 2025 🕒 14:30 CET 🔗 Register here 👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

ISD is looking for a Romanian-speaking research consultant to support a new project focused on the May 2025 Romanian presidential election. Interested? More details below! isdglobal.recruitee.com/o/consultant...

The EU's Disinformation Code will now be a "benchmark" for platform compliance under DSA. I asked experts whether the Code's integration into DSA effectively mitigate disinformation in the EU or will it serve as another regulatory sleight of hand. www.techpolicy.press/the-eus-code...

As journalists increase their use of AI, how will that impact trust in news? This study finds labeling news with AI-written content decreased trust among readers, and the effect was most pronounced among those with higher pre-existing trust in news. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Governments are intervening in information ecosystems with very little understanding of how they work. That leads to a belief that there are lessons learned in one that can be applied to others. But what might work in Finland could be disastrous elsewhere: carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

@lageneralista.ca, @samlai.bsky.social and John Hicks propose a framework for assessing national information ecosystems that can help policymakers understand the operating environment where threats like foreign interference exist. carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

It’s hard to keep up with all the risk assessments, audits, and other major new info dumps from platforms about their DSA compliance. Here’s a great overview from @davidsullivan.bsky.social of where we stand, what is noteworthy so far, and what should happen next.

New at Political Research Quarterly: Our latest study analyzing Latino political engagement & activity on social media, from Marisa Abrajano & Marianna Garcia from @ucsandiego.bsky.social, and Aaron Pope, @robertvidigal.bsky.social, Edwin Kamau, @jatucker.bsky.social, & Jonathan Nagler of CSMaP.

How do Danes feel about online content moderation? A highly timely question, in the wake of Meta's announced changes to their platforms and product lines! A research report co-authored by our very own @claesdevreese.bsky.social & @madshovethy.bsky.social provides answers! 💡⤵️

My team is looking for someone to lead our operations and communications in a senior-level role! More details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50079/

Pub alert 📣🤩 Our latest climate change & news audiences report is out, with insights from 3yrs of survey data across 8 countries. Despite the worsening climate crisis, climate news consumption & attitudes have remained remarkably stable - a pattern we term "climate perception inertia." For more👇

Open postdoc position at CEU in data science, network science or computational social science. Deadline: Feb. 22.

📣 Call for applications 📣 @audreygagnon.bsky.social & Nicola Mathieson are collaborating with @crexuio.bsky.social and VOX-Pol to organize a PhD Summer School on the study of online right-wing extremism, to be held in Oslo from 9-13 June 2025! For more info: www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

This multi-year, multi-country analysis shows that right-wing populist politicians spread more online misinfo than their mainstream counterparts and explains how “the rise of political misinformation is associated to the recent wave of radical-right populism.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

We're excited to announce that our upcoming symposium on #AI and democracy w/ @sethlazar.org (4/10-4/11, at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social & online) will feature papers by a highly accomplished group of authors from a wide range of disciplines. Check them out: knightcolumbia.org/blog/knight-...

Cheer up! The news might be gloomy but as a counter-disinformation community, we can do and achieve things. We're looking for great topics and ideas to present at #Disinfo2025 in Ljubljana. Send us your ideas right away, we can't wait to build the programme!

An incredible opportunity for the right person: The Santa Fe Institute is seeking applications for full-time resident faculty positions at all academic levels For me, this has been the best possible job ever. More info here: santafe.edu/about/jobs/r...

New summer institute for up-and-coming scholars across disciplines whose work investigates or intersects with disinformation: disinfoinstitute.org The first iteration will be this June in San Diego. Applications are due January 31.

(Now) Online conference this Thurs/Fri sponsored by Caltech on Information and Misinformation in Elections: www.protectingtheelection.us/conference

In a new publication, @samlai.bsky.social, @benimmo.bsky.social, Derek Ruths and @lageneralista.ca lay out four key questions that underpin successful measurement of changes caused by GenAI:

🚨Job alert! The @ox.ac.uk is looking for a new Director of the Reuters Institute with the strategic vision, academic credentials and public engagement skills to ensure the Institute continues to thrive. Apply by Fri 17 January. Full info⬇️ https://buff.ly/3hP0rJu

⚠️Job⚠️ Deadline to apply to our postdoc at the Polarization Research Lab is Jan. 15! We study democratic attitudes and behaviors. Postdocs have the opportunity to lead and propose projects and get a lot of writing experience. Join our group! polarizationresearchlab.org/hiring/

🚨In Nature🚨 Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias? We this test empirically & find that conservatives * ARE suspended more * BUT share more misinfo So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Community Notes needs Journalism. Here's some scientific evidence for it @andyzhao.bsky.social and I provided last year in the Journal of Online Trust & Safety where we looked at the dynamics of Cofacts, the Taiwanese crowdsourced fact-checked community: www.tsjournal.org/index.php/jo...

In what ways do Global North approaches to research and policymaking on the information environment fall short at addressing Majority World concerns? How can they be improved? I spoke with 54 experts around the world to learn more: carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

🚨 Calling all future tech policy leaders! Applications are now open for CDT’s Summer 2025 Internship Program. Dive into AI, privacy, and equity—or shape our impact through communications and fundraising. 🌟 Apply today! 🌐 cdt.org/careers/

Welcome to #WorkWednesday! Read on for a thread of jobs and opportunities related to conflict and governance in the information environment. #commsky #polisky

Researcher access to platform data: @rebekahtromble.bsky.social, with support from the Coalition for Independent Technology Research, has kindly shared a DocRef annotation set to support responses to the delegated regulation under the DSA. Consultation closes 10 December: docref.org/eu/ares(2024...