Kilian Buehling
@buehling.bsky.social
Information ecosystems & far-right political communication | IRex Tübingen |Weizenbaum Institute Passionate poster 🦭
Fascinating blogpost! Telegram started banning cybercrime channels after Durov‘s arrest in FR. However, many cybercrime actors hide in „political channels“ now (e.g., “PatriotPartyNewHampshire,” “FreeSouthDakota”). blog.openmeasures.io/p/telegram-c...
Cybercriminals Are Evading Telegram Crackdowns in 'Patriot Party' and Crypto-themed Channels
Telegram has removed millions of illicit channels in recent years, but cybercriminals are adapting tactics to evade detection
blog.openmeasures.io
It turns out I‘m funneling money to Steve Bannon every time I watch a Seinfeld episode on Netflix, which is basically every day 😢
Freedom.gov (remember that one?) It’s been nearly half a year since we were promised to be freed from the horrible European censorship regime by this US govt website — will it see the light of day before it expires again in another half year?
Are all contemporary social media trends really just driven by far-right 4chan larpers? www.tubefilter.com/2026/05/06/o...
Streamers are mogging each other, so Twitch changed its rules to accommodate them - Tubefilter
As Omoggle becomes a hot app in the world of looksmaxxing, Twitch is relaxing rules related to one-on-one video chats.
tubefilter.com
Whether or not that’s just Durov‘s hybris - the old cat and mouse game is on again. Let’s see if 10yrs later an authoritarian government has the means to shut down Telegram. Potentially important case study for many countries to come. www.reuters.com/business/tel...
Telegram's Durov says Russia triggered payment system problem by blocking VPNs
Telegram founder Pavel Durov said on Saturday Russia's attempt to block Virtual Private Networks triggered a problem with a domestic payment system, adding that tens of millions of Russians were ...
reuters.com
In knapp zwei Wochen, am 30.3., endet die Einreichungsfrist für unsere Tagung „Utopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaft“ am 16.–18.9.2026 @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social in Berlin! Wir freuen uns auf eure Beiträge! #CfP #digikomm2026
Christian Strippel@strippel.bsky.social · 8mo agoAm 16.–18. September 2026 veranstalten wir am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social eine Tagung zu „Utopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaft“, in der wir auf 30 Jahre Forschung zu Computer, Internet und Co. blicken. Einreichungsfrist: 30. März 2026. #CfP www.weizenbaum-institut.de/digikomm2026/
Question: I‘ll be teaching a course on Social Network Analysis this year. Can anyone recommend a podcast episode on (social) networks that will get my students hyped about networks in general?
Cool - Meta considers bringing back facial recognition to their smart glasses. www.platformer.news/meta-facial-...
Meta’s face turn
In the company’s latest policy reversal under Trump 2.0, the facial recognition system it blew up in 2021 may be poised for a return
platformer.news
„Longitudinal [communication] studies make more conceptual contributions and receive more citations than non-longitudinal studies.“ Published in Journal of Communication: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...
Conceptualization, operationalization, and performance of longitudinal studies in communication research: a systematic review
Abstract. We report a systematic review of longitudinal studies published in SSCI-Communication journals over the 50 years, focusing on how time is conceiv
doi.org
New School Guidance announces: Full bathroom ban. Full PE ban. Full school trip accommodation ban. Trans kids will not go to the bathroom, do PE or go on any school trips. 1/
A very interesting summary and contextualization! I definitely feel the last sentence: „I’m just not sure what we’re supposed to do with that knowledge.“
Ryan Broderick@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 6mo agoI read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...
Whatsapp is about to become a VLOP www.reuters.com/technology/e...
EU considers making WhatsApp more responsible for tackling harmful content, spokesperson says
Meta Platform's messaging unit WhatsApp will likely be subject to tough online content rules targeting illegal and harmful content after it met the user threshold under this regulation, a European Com...
reuters.com
Emiliano Treré, describing the physical setting in which his ethnography of a student movement's information took place, sounds outright romantic! ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
New Paper in @computationalcommunication.org The Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020-2022 with the most wonderful co-autohors @buehling.bsky.social & @maxzehring.bsky.social >> 2020-2022 >> 715 channels & 229 public groups >> 5,641,026 messages >> Manually curated >> Open for researchers
Live-Streaming: Mapping Networks of Influence and (Dis)information Flow (van Boheemen, @boesch.bsky.social, @tomdivon.bsky.social et al.) I was just made aware of this very insightful report on the usage of TikTok Live-Streaming by far-right extremists. www.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerSc...
SummerSchool2025LiveStreaming < Dmi < Foswiki
digitalmethods.net
Medical cannabis suppliers in Berlin are now using Telegram‘s notorious image as a stepping stone… (Cannabis has recently been de-criminalized in Germany)
Am 16.–18. September 2026 veranstalten wir am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social eine Tagung zu „Utopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaft“, in der wir auf 30 Jahre Forschung zu Computer, Internet und Co. blicken. Einreichungsfrist: 30. März 2026. #CfP www.weizenbaum-institut.de/digikomm2026/
Important work, excellently presented by @gongbaobao.bsky.social (with Barbara Pfetsch) from the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, on legacy media criticism by right-wing media in 🇩🇪. (Drawing on previous work by Heft et al. 😉👍) #IJPP2025
Day 2 of #IJPP2025: Started with a panel featuring yours truly, wherein I presented work together with Annett Heft, Juni Schindler, & @buehling.bsky.social on far-right and legacy media's coverage of conspiracy theories.
Re-reading Chadwick's classic work on "The Hybrid Media System" feels wild, when it shows pre-TikTok/Reels media consumption: "By 2011 [...] Americans were watching video on a mobile phone for an average of four hours per month. These figures may be small [...] but they are still significant"
🥳Excited to share our first social media data doi.org/10.4232/1.14... of Telegram COVID-19 protest mobilization 2020–2022 in Germany, covering 5.6M messages from 900+ public channels & groups, conducted by @hdschulze.bsky.social @buehling.bsky.social @maxzehring.bsky.social
DP-R|EX Data publication
Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020–2022 (TGCPD) How did the movement against COVID-19 containment measures take shape? The newly released Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset (TGCPD) provides a uniqu...
dprex.hypotheses.org
The narrative seems to be(come) that the Dutch election shows a “comeback of the political center”. We have seen this frame before, implying “the center” has an ideological substance and is stable. But “the center” keeps moving right on mostly nativist, but also often authoritarian, issues.
Wie haben sich die Netzwerke von Rechtsextremismus & Co. und deren Kommunikation während unseres dreijährigen Telegram-Monitorings entwickelt? In der neuen MATR-Ausgabe wagen Christian Donner, @wynbrodersen.bsky.social, @maik.machine-vs-rage.net & Michael Schmidt den Rückblick. 1|13
Drei Jahre MATR-Monitoring auf Telegram: Die Rolle der Plattform im rechtsalternativen Online-Aktivismus
In diesem Rückblick auf die Daten aus drei Jahren Telegram-Monitoring wird untersucht, wie sich die Nutzung der Plattform durch rechtsalternative Akteure gewandelt hat. Die Analyse zeigt, dass sie tro...
machine-vs-rage.net
The times are dire, but some online platforms still seem to deplatform right-wing extremists. The head of the Austrian far-right „Identitarian Movement“ Martin Sellner reports to be cut off of his crypto monetization channels.
Sneak preview for our talk (w. @pekasen.bsky.social) at #AoIR2025 tomorrow as part of the social media & elections panel with @snurb.info, @dscheykopp.bsky.social & Kate O'Connor-Farfan. Looking forward to hear your questions and feedback! (11 AM, room 8G, aoir2025ruptures.sch...)
New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
Paper titles from different fields sometimes sound very niche. But this one caught my attention and I was very lucky to continue reading. This is so insightful and enriching for my own work. Highly recommend! doi.org/10.1002/asi....
