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Newsletter #5: Summer Conferences, Publication Updates & General Assembly

Dear WHAT-IF members and network, July is coming to an end, which means it is time to look back at everything that has happened in our project over the past few months. In this newsletter, we highl…

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CJEU, media/tech/IP law New judgment: Italy did not breach EU law by requiring Meta to negotiate compensation for use of press stories - Meta's right to carry on a business has to be balanced with the publishers' intellectual property rights and media pluralism curia.europa.eu/site/jcms/d2...

I spoke to @nieuws.nos.nl about how Meta is failing to enforce its own ad ban. Also commentary from the excellent @maxvandrunen.bsky.social. nos.nl/nieuwsuur/ar...

Meta's verbod op politieke reclame werkt niet, partijen adverteren gewoon door

Deskundigen vrezen dat ook illegale verkiezingsbeïnvloeding online kan belanden.

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Come work with us 🚨 We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab. Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science. Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions. DL 🗓️ November 1 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher Communication Science at AI, Media & Democracy Lab

Do you want to be part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in communication science.

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📣 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...

This weekend, the Meta Ad Library turns seven, and the first ads in it, from back in 2018, will start to disappear. It would be trivial for Meta to keep a permanent archive of political ads, and they should. Here's more on that: whotargets.me/en/the-disap...

I am still wrapping my head around Google's announcement to stop political advertising in the EU in 2025. The decision to stop is allegedly due to regulation's broad definition of what a political ad is. But this is problematic. [1/2] #commsky #polcom #csssky #polisky blog.google/around-the-g...

An update on political advertising in the European Union

Google will stop serving political advertising in the EU ahead of new regulation in October 2025.

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