🎉 happy this one is finally out! new paper w/ @giadam.bsky.social and @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social in @icsjournal.bsky.social, part of the @aoir.bsky.social special issue:

Information, Communication & Society@icsjournal.bsky.social · 3w ago

#OutNow Digital Collection in #iCS This study examines how major political events shape affective engagement patterns in a hyperpartisan pro-Bolsonaro network of Facebook accounts. Authors analyzed over 12 million posts across 2021–2023. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

On April 8, 2026, Bruna Paroni from the University of Urbino, Italy, gave a talk at ZeMKI in Bremen on algorithmic amplification of visual content in Brazilian election campaigns. https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/talk-by-bruna-paroni-on-algorithmic-amplification-in-elections/

Curious re: who is using paid ads to shape your thinking re: politics & social issues on Facebook & Instagram? We've an app for that. PoliDashboard Unveils 25 New Country-Specific Dashboards, Advancing Global Transparency in Political Advertising on Meta Platforms. socialmedialab.ca/2026/02/04/p...

PoliDashboard Unveils 25 New Country-Specific Dashboards, Advancing Global Transparency in Political Advertising on Meta Platform - Social Media Lab

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 4, 2026 Toronto, Ontario — In the wake of recent reports highlighting the prevalence of fraudulent advertisements on Meta-owned platforms (Tech Transparency Project) and ...

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In October 2025, veraAI project members based at the University of Urbino (@giadam.bsky.social, @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social and @brupar.bsky.social) went to Brazil to present and share their research findings at a variety of events. Find out what they did in this post.

Advancing Research on Disinformation and Digital Manipulation: The University of Urbino at two Key Conferences in Brazil

VERification Assisted by AI. R&D & innovation co-funded by the HorizonEU. Continuing WeVerify work. And much more!

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grateful to @snurb.info for liveblogging my talk on elections, platforms & polarization at #AoIR2025🇧🇷 really nice summary of the key themes and questions discussed. read it here: snurb.info/node/3452

did we?! 👀

Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️‍🌈@svegaard.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Did Bruna Paroni and I coin a term? We stumbled into using 'inauthentic coordinated fan behaviour' to talk about mobilising a fandom to astroturf a message. (So, at least some actors ARE fans, but also paid to spread a message.) It seems like that should already be a term. Is it? #fanstudies

Axel Bruns@snurb.info · 11mo ago

Lovely to start the day with a @qutdmrc.bsky.social visitor’s seminar by @brupar.bsky.social, from @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social’s excellent research group at the University of Urbino.

a barbárie como norma e implementada por "política pública de segurança"

Jornal O Globo@oglobo.globo.com · 12mo ago

Câmeras corporais mostram morador de rua morto por PMs desarmado e chorando antes de ser fuzilado .

Hi everyone, is anyone using the Meta Content Library API? I am specifically interested in getting in touch with people with API access, rather than access to the frontend only. transparency.meta.com/de-de/resear...

Meta Content Library and API | Transparency Center

Meta regularly publishes reports to give our community visibility into community standards enforcement, government requests and internet disruptions

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o Brasil é do povo brasileiro.

Lula@lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social · last yr.

Este país tem lei, este país tem regra, e este país tem um dono chamado povo brasileiro.

glad to be here at @qutdmrc.bsky.social as a visiting fellow for the next few months!

Presenting our research w/ @brupar.bsky.social & @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social this afternoon @ #SISCC2025 (Uni of Cagliari) exploring how emotional reactions and narratives fuel polarization and harm democratic debate in Facebook pro-Bolsonaro communities. Looking forward to discuss this!

best city 🤝 best conference

Axel Bruns@snurb.info · last yr.

So you're saying we should register for the #AoIR2025 conference ? In Rio ? In the spring ? That's gotta be a hard sell. 🍹🏖️🩴🤓

as a young researcher, I must admit that one of the challenges of studying a non-western context is that your work is almost always treated as a case study. you're expected to specify the country or context in your title... and your "case study" often ends up being seen as the exception to the rule

#AoIR2025 is shaping up! Excited to coordinate a panel on platform polarization in Latin America with @brupar.bsky.social, present my work on LLMs + Brazilian social media and on deceptive information operations on Facebook with @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social & team. Looking forward to it in Niterói! ☀️

We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group. aoir.org/riskyresearc...

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Muere a los 89 años el expresidente de Uruguay José ‘Pepe’ Mujica, el revolucionario tranquilo

Muere a los 89 años el expresidente de Uruguay José ‘Pepe’ Mujica, el revolucionario tranquilo

El exguerrillero y símbolo de la izquierda latinoamericana fallece tras una larga lucha contra el cáncer. Su carisma y su capacidad de ser un oráculo de la austeridad y la sencillez fascinaron al mundo

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🆕 Introducing the ✨PolComm ECR Club✨ – a new monthly online forum for early career researchers in political communication! Organized by @olgaeisele.bsky.social & @alenakluknavska.bsky.social, this initiative is open to PhD students & postdocs (≤4 yrs post-PhD) in the ECPR or ECREA polcom sections!

What a disaster for scholars studying #disinformation, #misinformation, the spreading of information / narratives and such like in the US: the National Science Foundation cancels hundreds of respective research grants.

National Science Foundation cancels research grants related to misinformation and disinformation

Hundreds of grants, fellowships, and awards were terminated because they are no longer "aligned with NSF priorities."

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watching #SpaceForce after these last few months just makes so much sense now!

feliz por ter tido a honra de traduzir esse retrato da minha geração, tão poser e precária

Todavia Livros@todavialivros.bsky.social · last yr.

Veja recomenda: AS PERFEIÇÕES, de Vincenzo Latronico, finalista do prêmio Strega e vencedor do prêmio internacional Mondello: veja.abril.com.br/coluna/veja-...

We are democratizing coordinated sharing detection! 🚀 Join us to discover the graphical user interface that makes using CooRTweet even easier: tech.ebu.ch/events/2025/...

Detecting coordinated behaviour on social media with veraAI

A webinar series on innovative AI-based fact-checking tools from the veraAI project

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🚨Atenção que em junho vai ter curso de Bateson na UBU🚨

Researchers at Uni Urbino uncovered a significant #disinformation campaign on #Facebook pertaining to #PopeFrancis’ health. Here's what they found. #InauthenticCoordinatedBehavior By @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social, @giadam.bsky.social, @informativeicts.bsky.social @mterenzi.bsky.social.

AI-Generated Images of Pope Francis Drive Traffic to Network of Suspicious Websites in Coordinated Campaign

VERification Assisted by AI. R&D & innovation co-funded by the HorizonEU. Continuing WeVerify work. And much more!

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In our latest investigation, we unveiled a large coordinated operation on Facebook employing AI-generated images to drive traffic to a network of traditional fake news websites. It's 2016 all over again 😱

vera.ai@vera-ai.bsky.social · last yr.

Researchers at Uni Urbino uncovered a significant #disinformation campaign on #Facebook pertaining to #PopeFrancis’ health. Here's what they found. #InauthenticCoordinatedBehavior By @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social, @giadam.bsky.social, @informativeicts.bsky.social @mterenzi.bsky.social.

I'm Still Here wins Best International Feature Film at the #Oscars This is the first win for Brazil in this category.

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

#OutNow in #iCS This study explores how CitizenGO uses social media to mainstream and transnationalize its agenda, revealing a sophisticated network for coordinating and amplifying anti-gender messages across languages and regions. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Mainstreaming and transnationalization of anti-gender ideas through social media: the case of CitizenGO

Social media platforms can be effective tools for mainstreaming and transnationalization of radical positions. Anti-gender ideas have particularly gained traction transnationally in recent years. D...

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🥳 Congratulations to our colleagues @nicolarighetti.bsky.social, @aytalina.bsky.social & @maikovska.bsky.social on their latest publication! Their study, w/ @brupar.bsky.social, Zsófia Cseri & Sofia Iriarte is now out in Information, Communication & Society 📖

aytalina@aytalina.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 New publication! Information, Communication & Society just published our study “Mainstreaming and transnationalization of anti-gender ideas through social media: the case of CitizenGO” w/ @nicolarighetti.bsky.social Bruna Paroni, Zsófia Cseri, Sofia Iriarte, & @maikovska.bsky.social ✨