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Are AI tools getting better, or worse? @newsguard.bsky.social audit of the 10 gen AI tools and their propensity to repeat false claims on news topics: The rate of publishing false information nearly doubled... false claims to news prompts in 1/3 instances... www.newsguardtech.com/ai-monitor/a...
“De wetenschap heeft een tweeledige rol: als locomotief van de vooruitgang, maar ook als rem om de trein van de geschiedenis op de rails te houden.” Robbert Dijkgraaf in @nrc.nl Trump en de tech-trawanten www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/... www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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Thrilled to receive the 2025 @carlsbergfondet.dk Research Prize. The prize celebrates free and independent research. I am incredibly indebted to students, colleagues, support staff, funders, and mentors who made all the research possible. Onward and upward 🚀 www.carlsbergfondet.dk/en/news/klau...
The European Commission had warned that behavioral remedies wouldn’t address competition concerns, suggesting that divestment was a necessary step, notes Tech Policy Press Fellow Megan Kirkwood. However, in today’s decision, the Commission decided not to go that far just yet.
EU hits Google with €2.95bn antitrust fine. Earlier rumors of hold or even cancellation are untrue. Ribera correctly says: We will continue to apply our rules firmly and fairly, without fear or favour, in relation to all companies operating in Europe ↘️ on.ft.com/467uAyC
Claes Holger de Vreese, der er professor i politisk kommunikation og centerleder for Digital Democracy Centre ved Syddansk Universitet, er den ene af to modtagere Carlsbergsfondets Forskningspriser 2025. #dkmedier journalisten.dk/nyhedsoverbl...
Cool new Call for Papers from Algorithm, Data & Democracy project: Conference April 9-10, 2026, Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Deadline December 1, 2025 🚀 algoritmer.org/call-for-pap...
Full paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Together w Sophie Morosoli, @laurensnaudts.bsky.social , @natalihelberger.bsky.social , @claesdevreese.bsky.social. @aimediademlab.bsky.social
📣 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗜 & 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 📣 We evaluated public accountability and regulatory expectations for AI in journalism. We conducted focus groups with Dutch citizens. Some results 👇🧵 Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Huge congratulations to our new @ddc-sdu.bsky.social Dr, @rasmusschmokel.bsky.social 🎉 Excellently defended, timely, advanced, and innovative dissertation. #proudsupervisors 🚀
The higher education vendetta continues. The public outrage ought to be so much louder. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
✨ AI-professor @claesdevreese.bsky.social modtager #CFforskpris 2025 for sin omfattende og internationalt anerkendte forskningsindsats i den rolle, som algoritmer og kunstig intelligens spiller i demokratiske processer #dkforsk @ddc-sdu.bsky.social @sdu.dk
Welcome back @hannescools.bsky.social 🤗 Looking forward to continuing the collaboration
Tomorrow @rasmusschmokel.bsky.social will defend his PhD dissertation “The Impact of Algorithms on News Consumption. The Power of Social Media as Democratic Infrastructure and its Potential for Public Value" at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social @sdu.dk Go Rasmus 🚀
European platform regulations are not censorship laws. The “EU’s Digital Service Act is not the problem. American politicians should stop pretending it” Read this excellent piece by @daphnek.bsky.social ⬇️ cyberlaw.stanford.edu/a-primer-on-...
European platform regulations are not censorship laws. The “EU’s Digital Service Act is not the problem. American politicians should stop pretending it” Read this excellent piece by @daphnek.bsky.social ⬇️ cyberlaw.stanford.edu/a-primer-on-...
The Dutch elections have become a real world experiment. Mid-campaign #Meta will stop political advertising. What will it do to the campaign dynamics? To newcomers? To other platforms? To paid content by influencers? To catchy organic content? Weighing in on these issues ⬇️
De verkiezingen in Nederland zijn onbedoeld een experiment geworden. Een paar werken voor de verkiezingen stopt de mogelijkheid om online te adverteren. Er zijn zorgen om politieke targeting online. Maar er zijn ook zorgen over het feit dat het niet meer mogelijk is. www.rtl.nl/nieuws/econo...
Also, all universities converged on this being a top funding instrument.
The competition for research funding is fierce. And getting fiercer. Cause for 📈? US exodus? Decreased national funding? Cuts in higher education? All of the above?
Details needed, but ... If fine is pulled as part of EU-US trade negotiations this is very impactful and very bad. www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
It's the opening of the academic year in the Netherlands today. Public trust in science is stable and relatively high 💪 It is higher than trust in any other institution (judiciary, media, business or politics). Trust in the government is the lowest. Source: Rathenau in @volkskrant.nl
irresistible...😉
It's the opening of the academic year in the Netherlands today. Public trust in science is stable and relatively high 💪 It is higher than trust in any other institution (judiciary, media, business or politics). Trust in the government is the lowest. Source: Rathenau in @volkskrant.nl
It's a crazy thought that the @icahdq.bsky.social submission system opens tomorrow. Welcome back from the break colleagues. ... #ica26 #commsky
The EU is set to launch a new code of practice on labelling AI-generated content. But as AI shifts from content to agents, an expert warns: the AI Act must regulate AI-driven actions too to help prevent online manipulation. www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
(1/2) Vandaag begint het nieuwe academische jaar. Wat normaal een feestelijke dag is, wordt nu overschaduwd door de onderwijsbezuinigingen van dit kabinet. Universiteiten zijn bezig met ontslagrondes, opleidingen worden beëindigd en onderzoek stilgezet.
Wishing students and colleagues an inspiring academic year. Education is the bedrock of a strong society. Stand up for science, knowledge, and education 💪🏽 #oaj25 #oay25
Less than 2 months to the Dutch general elections 🗳️ The latest poll of polls @peilingwijzer.bsky.social (by @tomlouwerse.nl) indicate how challenging coalition negotiations might be. 1. There is little appetite to govern with Wilders/PVV 2. Many parties needed for majority 3. Volatility is high
It's as blunt as it can be: the FTC simply writes to big US tech companies that they should not comply with the EU's Digital Services Act #DSA The 'censorship', 'freedom of speech', and 'safety of US citizens' language are tired arguments. www.wired.com/story/big-te...
Less than 2 months to the Dutch general elections 🗳️ The latest poll of polls @peilingwijzer.bsky.social (by @tomlouwerse.nl) indicate how challenging coalition negotiations might be. 1. There is little appetite to govern with Wilders/PVV 2. Many parties needed for majority 3. Volatility is high
📣 OA Publication alert! 📣 "Says who? The role of party cues in explaning the positive and negative consequences of political moral appeals in Europe" In Party Politics #thread journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Denmark invests 80M DKK in digital sovereignty. Minister of Digital Affairs @carolinestage.bsky.social will lead initiatives to reduce dependency of big tech. Money will be spent on developing and testing alternatives. www.digmin.dk/digitaliseri...
One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.
“A fresh US assault is aimed at Europe’s right to regulate tech. It’s an outrage – and we must resist it” Zesty opinion piece by @thierrybreton.bsky.social, former EU commissioner for digital affairs www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...
This is needed indeed. Stand strong on the implementation of digital regulation like DSA, DMA, AI Act. @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu says the EU should be prepared to walk from trade deal with Trump if there is retaliation over tech regulation. www.ft.com/content/010c...
This is needed indeed. Stand strong on the implementation of digital regulation like DSA, DMA, AI Act. @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu says the EU should be prepared to walk from trade deal with Trump if there is retaliation over tech regulation. www.ft.com/content/010c...
Danes are concerned about Big Tech’s influence on both their everyday lives and society as a whole – but few are willing to change their habits to limit the companies’ impact. Read the new report from DDC to gain insights into Danes’ attitudes & actions: portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/publicati...
Danskerne er bekymrede for tech-giganternes indflydelse på deres hverdag og på samfundet som helhed – men kun få er villige til at ændre deres vaner for at omgås virksomhedernes indflydelse. Læs den nye rapport fra DDC: portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/publicati...
Not all tech platforms are the same. Citizens view them differently. Though there are many concerns about their influence, only few use alternatives. Attitude to action challenge is real. Results from our latest @ddc-sdu.bsky.social report [DK] ⬇️ portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/publicati...
Academictwitter was voor velen een makkelijke manier om updated te blijven. Dat is hier anders, waar actieve(r) deelname vereist is om een nuttige ervaring te hebben, en dat clubje is (te) beperkt
Bits of Freedom spant een interessante zaak aan tegen Meta over hun manipulatie van gedrag d.m.v. dark patterns rond het aanbieden van een tijnlijn die niet op profiling gebaseerd is. Ze lijken gebruik te maken van (ten minste) twee nieuwe DSA-rechten. www.volkskrant.nl/tech/bits-of...
@mirya.bsky.social's relevant question on changes in #dataaccess regimes in the "post API, emerging DSA era" yielded some really good responses! Check the replies ⬇️ #commsky
Bluesky is for sure the (?) top platform for scientific chatter currently (with LinkedIn). But frankly, more engagement is needed here and transitioning from #academictwitter is part of broader fragmentation. And 🦋 is still incredibly US based, also for research. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...
The case will serve end of September, about a month ahead of the Dutch elections
Meta must do more to let users have agency over their #facebook and #insta feeds. Fx easy chronological, not algorithmic feeds. That is the claim in a case against meta by @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social I weigh in on the consequences of feeds and the lack of data sharing by platforms. nos.nl/l/2580244
🧪 🗳 New in Scientific Data "The #AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024: A Dataset of Austrian Voter Attitudes and Behavior” The new data descriptor offers background on study design & data quality. ➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s415... 📂 Dataset: doi.org/10.11587/HNU... #OpenScience @aussda.bsky.social
Important thread by @manueltonneau.bsky.social on content moderation (or lack there of) in different languages by social media platforms
The US interest in Greenland is not over. Foreign influence campaigns can take many shapes. www.ft.com/content/c067...
The EU is a market with 450 million people. There is vast public support for regulation of big tech and for companies to meet their responsibilities. Giving in after a decade of efforts in this space is undesirable and unnecessary. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b...
The EU is a market with 450 million people. There is vast public support for regulation of big tech and for companies to meet their responsibilities. Giving in after a decade of efforts in this space is undesirable and unnecessary. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b...
A free, democratic and independent Ukraine. That's what you are fighting for. That's what our efforts are all about. We are with you, for as long as it takes. Because a free Ukraine is a free Europe. Happy Independence Day, Ukraine!
“The non-binding deal could give OpenAI access to government data and lead to its software being used in education, defence, security and the justice system” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
🔥 Just out: We tracked how Austrians’ misbeliefs about COVID being a deliberately engineered #bioweapon shifted (or didn’t) over 2 years – and how threat perceptions & media exposure 🗞️ shaped belief updating & reinforcement. w/ N. Lebernegg, @schnizzl.bsky.social & @hajoboo.bsky.social 🧵
AI kan door ieder partij gebruikt worden. Links of rechts. Het verschil zit in de keuze om het wel of niet te doen. In @nrc.nl vandaag met enkele quotes van 🙋 Vier redenen waarom AI-beeld populair is bij uiterst rechts www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/... www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Good question. Finding a way to cover all posts with two parties, with rather few seats in parliament, until the October 29 elections *and* the end of government coalition negotiations while being at the mercy of opposition parties with little interest in the government left overs doing well.Fragile
A key sentence here seems to be: The deal could “give OpenAI access to government data” 👀 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Chatbots zijn onderdeel van verkiezingen geworden. Ook in Nederland 🗳️ Is dat goed of slecht of maakt het niet zo veel uit? In ieder geval is meer transparantie vereist. In @fd.nl met enkele quotes van 🙋 en @ascor.bsky.social collega Tom Dobber specials.fd.nl/hoi-chatgpt-...
AI kan door ieder partij gebruikt worden. Links of rechts. Het verschil zit in de keuze om het wel of niet te doen. In @nrc.nl vandaag met enkele quotes van 🙋 Vier redenen waarom AI-beeld populair is bij uiterst rechts www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/... www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Uncharted territory in Dutch politics. The government fell months ago when Wilders’ PVV left the government. The remaining three parties would govern until Oct 🗳️ Now the ministers are of NSC have left too. Leaving 2 parties, VVD and BBB. There’s a first time for everything, even in Dutch politics
What a blast. Our @ddc-sdu.bsky.social team completed the DHL Relay 🏃🏼 with hundreds of SDU colleagues. Awesome team with Anne, @emilbakke.bsky.social, @nielsmede.bsky.social, and led by team captain Lars. Thanks to all organizers and volunteers.
We are the ones who are so so so very very very excited 🎉
💓I am so (so, so) very excited to be joining @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social, starting February 2026, where I will continue my work on computational methods/AI, researcher data access, multi-platform language flows, and political extremism. 💓 1/
There is good news and there is excellent news. This is OUTSTANDING. We @ddc-sdu.bsky.social are absolutely thrilled to have world leading scholar @jolukito.bsky.social join us as Professor and as @d-ias.bsky.social Chair. Welcome Jo!!!!!
There is good news and there is excellent news. This is OUTSTANDING. We @ddc-sdu.bsky.social are absolutely thrilled to have world leading scholar @jolukito.bsky.social join us as Professor and as @d-ias.bsky.social Chair. Welcome Jo!!!!!
Interesting. Danish media will run a campaign to encourage advertisers to spend money with their competitors, that is, other Danish media. 👛 Spend your ad budget with Danish media rather than international tech giants is the key message Source: MediaWatch
Read President-Elect Ingrid Bachmann's inaugural ICA newsletter article, which outlines her theme for #ICA26: "Communication and Inequalities in Context." buff.ly/4iIiMPk
Traffic for the world’s top-50 news websites swung sharply into the red in July, according to Press Gazette’s exclusive traffic ranking pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...
This is a very important report from @thecoalition.bsky.social on the challenges of technology research: "Across countries, support for public-interest research on technology is rapidly eroding, just as society’s need for it grows more urgent" independenttechresearch.org/citr-report-...
The field of political communication is incredibly exciting to teach and research. But the context is horrible. Aptly put by @davekarpf.bsky.social the overwhelming sense that I have is that things are getting worse. The water level rises. The center holds, but only barely, and not for much longer
Open for business 🟩 The new @icahdq.bsky.social #OpenAccess journal @gpccomm.bsky.social is open for submissions. #commsky academic.oup.com/gpc/pages/ge...
Thanks to @thecoalition.bsky.social leadership and members for sharing and addressing this crucial topic @ddc-sdu.bsky.social @aimediademlab.bsky.social @cdt.org
This is a very important report from @thecoalition.bsky.social on the challenges of technology research: "Across countries, support for public-interest research on technology is rapidly eroding, just as society’s need for it grows more urgent" independenttechresearch.org/citr-report-...
We are thrilled to see our affiliated researchers & dear colleagues from SDU's Centre for Journalism Studies Morten Skovsgaard, @dieheiselberg.bsky.social, and @kimandersen.bsky.social shortlisted for this year's Bob Franklin Journal Article Award!!! 🤩👏 www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjo...
Today, we’re proud to share the Coalition’s new report: The State of Independent Technology Research: Power in Numbers It's an offering to our community and all researchers doing public interest work–a reflection of collective strength, solidarity and persistence in the face of adversity. (1/2)
Free and independent public service media are a key pillar of a healthy society and vibrant democracy. This is the cry for help in the 🇺🇸 Donate if you are in the US and able. Cherish and support your public media if you are in a democracy.
Excellent, congrats 🎉
Congratulations again Jacob, exciting news, looking forward to exploring options!
The defunding of universities in the US hurts the administration's own AI ambitions. Defunding... 🛑 halts the talent pipeline 🛑 stifles innovation 🛑 neglects human and user perspectives 🛑 creates ethical and safety problems What a plan ...😮💨 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Miss #ICA25? Relive the memories! 📸 Take a moment to browse through our conference photo gallery—you might spot yourself or a few familiar faces!
Feel free to reach out to special editors @curdknupfer.bsky.social @lenafrescamente.bsky.social @gehrke.bsky.social and 🙋 with questions @ddc-sdu.bsky.social #commsky #journalism #technogarchy
The dynamics between big tech, politics and journalism are changing. Help make sense of these changes and their implications. Submit to our special issue of @digitaljournalism.bsky.social 🚨ONE MONTH UNTIL ABSTRACT DEADLINE SEPT 15, 2025 🚨 Details: drive.google.com/file/d/182p3...
Science for democracy. Much needed. Powerful @science.org editorial by @gretchentg.bsky.social & @chenoweth.bsky.social “The ability to tell the truth, especially when it does not suit any particularly partisan aims, is an essential prerequisite for a free society” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Bluesky rolls out new Terms of Service to be compliant with regulation, including the Digital Services Act #DSA This feature will be interesting to follow: An informal dispute resolution process, where 🦋 will call folks before proceeding to any formal dispute process. bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Science for democracy. Much needed. Powerful @science.org editorial by @gretchentg.bsky.social & @chenoweth.bsky.social “The ability to tell the truth, especially when it does not suit any particularly partisan aims, is an essential prerequisite for a free society” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
100% agree on Storebælt and other places with surprisingly good connectivity 📶