Friederike Quint
@friederikeq.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at the Chair of Digital Governance at Technical University of Munich & Content Moderation Lab at the TUM Think Tank Political Science & Social Media | Speech Legislation & Content Moderation in Democracies 🔗 friederikequint.github.io
New study out now in Scientific Reports!🚀 #openaccess
Yannis Theocharis@yannistheocharis.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe world's largest platforms are built around US free speech norms. But do users elsewhere actually share those norms? New paper (N=13,475; 10 countries) with @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social, @janzilinsky.bsky.social, and @friederikeq.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The world's largest platforms are built around US free speech norms. But do users elsewhere actually share those norms? New paper (N=13,475; 10 countries) with @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social, @janzilinsky.bsky.social, and @friederikeq.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ideology and free speech values predict content moderation preferences: cross-national evidence across targets of hate speech - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Ideology and free speech values predict content moderation preferences: cross-national evidence across targets of hate speech
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dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
dplyr 1.2.0
dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...
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🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨 7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers. Free of charge (limited travel support). Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org #methodsky #polisky
Mit einem Phishing-Angriff versucht ein bislang unbekannter Akteur offenbar gezielt Zugriff auf die #Signal-Konten von Journalist:innen und Aktivist:innen zu bekommen. Wir erklären, wie der Angriff funktioniert und wie man sich vor ihm schützen kann. netzpolitik.org/2026/phishin...
Phishing-Angriff: Zahlreiche Journalist:innen im Visier bei Attacke über Signal-Messenger
Mit einem Phishing-Angriff versucht ein bislang unbekannter Akteur offenbar gezielt Zugriff auf die Signal-Konten von Journalist:innen und Aktivist:innen zu bekommen. Wir erklären, wie der Angriff fun...
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partycoloR is now on CRAN! Started as a simple idea 6 years ago, now it's a full-featured package. Extract party colors and logos from Wikipedia with one line of code. It's already powering ParlGov Dashboard. install.packages("partycoloR")
Last week 54 members of the European Parliament wrote a letter to the European Commission President to support open social networks made in Europe. The Grok desaster shows that regulation is not enough. We need to build and we need to do it fast. alexandrageese.eu/wp-content/u...
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Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.
Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration - Wikipedia
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Publication Alert 🚨 Our paper on the effect of Symbolic Policies on Climate Policy Support has been published in the APSR! @apsrjournal.bsky.social Below is a summary of the results Extremely grateful to have written this with the wonderful @malojan.bsky.social and @theodoretallent.bsky.social 🥳
Theodore Tallent@theodoretallent.bsky.social · 7mo ago🎉 NEW PUBLICATION🎉 Our paper on "the effect of symbolic policies on climate policy support" has just been published in the APSR ! @apsrjournal.bsky.social (open access) The end of a long and rewarding journey with the best co-authors @malojan.bsky.social @luissattelmayer.bsky.social (1/6)
Within the next decade the radical right is going to be the main force on the right in Europe (national and EU level). This includes far-right parties and formerly centre-right parties shifting their position. Moderate conservatism and Christian democracy will largely disappear on the right. 1/
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 7mo agoThe EU’s centrist powers need to move to the right to reflect the new political reality, the leader of the European People’s Party Manfred Weber has told in an exclusive interview with POLITICO.
📉 Amid depressing news, getting back into office life after a break, and slowly inching toward the end of my PhD, I wanted a simple way to track how my days actually felt — ideally colour-coded in a calendar so I could look back and reflect. So I built one (well, two) and made them open-source. 🧵⬇️
Schlicht erschütternd, wie Regierungen versuchen, Tatsachen zu vernebeln, sie nicht beim Namen zu nennen, Bürger:innen im Dunkeln zu lassen über die politische Realität. Das erodiert die Grundvoraussetzungen der Demokratie. Wer soll sich so motiviert fühlen, Demokratie aktiv zu gestalten?
Jonas Schaible@beimwort.bsky.social · 8mo ago„Die rechtliche Einordnung des US-Einsatzes ist komplex.“ Sagt der Bundeskanzler. Es stimmt freilich nicht.
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
Ultimately, our graphics should tell a story about our research, whether it’s about changing media habits or shifting social norms. Here's a few of our favorite visuals from 2025, how we made them, and what makes them successful.
Our favorite data visualizations of 2025
In this post, we’ll highlight a few of our favorite visuals from 2025 and walk through how we made them and what makes them successful.
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📣 out now, with @argohdes.bsky.social and Mark Gibney - and in honour of the wonderful Steve Poe, who motivated the 1st edition with @universitypress.cambridge.org tinyurl.com/2s4kh6z3. If you enjoy reading this even a fraction as much as I enjoyed creating it, you’re in for a ride 🤩
The Politics of Human Rights | Cambridge Aspire website
Discover The Politics of Human Rights, 2nd Edition, Sabine C. Carey, HB ISBN: 9781009537919 on Cambridge Aspire website
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AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail
I cannot think of a democracy anywhere in the world where this sort of thing could happen. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure
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Back from a successful #APSA25 in Vancouver 🇨🇦 – full of inspiring projects, great discussions, and reconnecting with colleagues. I presented two of my co-authored dissertation papers: one at the Political Communication Preconference and another at APSA (American Political Science Association).
📣 We’re launching the London Social Media Observatory! 🎉 ➡️ We are a new multidisciplinary research centre, directed by @andreucasas.bsky.social & funded by the @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship 🧵 [1/4]
Again: they found absolute monsters to run gov social media accounts. People who at some point lost or never had the idea that the things you say online might have real world connections. Literal psychopaths.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 12mo agoThey’re making fun of the media referring to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a Maryland man as they threaten to send him to Uganda, a country where he’s never lived. They’re simply fucking vile.
In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right. Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements. 1/3
British Journal of Political Science@bjpols.bsky.social · last yr.NEW - How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD "we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians" - @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social #OpenAccess
NEW - Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views - cup.org/4mmVIAL "exposure to uncritical interviews increases agreement with extreme statements and perceptions of broader support in the population" - @dianebolet.bsky.social & @florianfoos.bsky.social #OpenAccess
Mit freundlichen Grüßen an die Redaktionen von ARD und ZDF und all diejenigen, die weiterhin denken, man könnte die radikale Reche in Interviews entzaubern...
British Journal of Political Science@bjpols.bsky.social · last yr.NEW - Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views - cup.org/4mmVIAL "exposure to uncritical interviews increases agreement with extreme statements and perceptions of broader support in the population" - @dianebolet.bsky.social & @florianfoos.bsky.social #OpenAccess
You can already submit your paper and panel proposal for EPSS next year. Looking forward to seeing many people in Belfast. I will be there.
EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · last yr.The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference! 📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast 🗓️ June 18–20, 2026 📍 ICC Belfast 📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025 🧵
“Most users do not want unregulated spaces. They view moderation as essential to sustaining democratic discourse.” Read a compelling analysis by Coalition members and allies challenging the narratives of large tech companies and shining light on the public desire for free and fair digital spaces.⬇️
What People Want from Platforms Isn’t What Musk and Zuckerberg Are Selling | TechPolicy.Press
Researchers fielded surveys in 10 countries to understand how citizens perceive platforms and potential trade-offs related to free expression.
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🔗📃 Link to he paper now published in the ICWSM conference proceedings (ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...) co-authored with @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @friederikeq.bsky.social, @sebnagel.bsky.social, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social & Molly Roberts
Written for Lawyers or Users? Mapping the Complexity of Community Guidelines | Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
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🛫 Off to Madrid for this year’s EPSA conference, where I’ll be presenting co-authored work with @yannistheocharis.bsky.social , @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social , and Molly Roberts. 💡You’ll find me in the panel “Insights into Countering Misinformation” on Friday, June 27, at 09:30 in Room 1A.13.
📢New Paper Alert 📢
Yannis Theocharis@yannistheocharis.bsky.social · last yr.🚨 New Paper 🚨 "Written for Lawyers or Users? Mapping the Complexity of Community Guidelines" Led by @mianahrgang.bsky.social, with @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @friederikeq.bsky.social, @sebnagel.bsky.social & Molly Roberts, published at #ICWSM2025. 🧵Thread👇
🚨🚀 Looking for a comparative dataset on social media platforms? We’re excited to launch COMPARE! This is a collaborative effort by @nilsweidmann.bsky.social , @friederikeq.bsky.social , @sebnagel.bsky.social , @yannistheocharis.bsky.social & Molly Roberts. 🧵⤵️ (1/5)
New interview out! I spoke with Lars Lubienetzki for ver.di—one of Germany’s largest trade unions—about our much-anticipated report "Content Warning: Public Attitudes on Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression." 📢 🔗 Only available in German: mmm.verdi.de/aktuelle-mel...
Social Media: Mehr Moderation gewünscht - M - Menschen Machen Medien (ver.di)
Wer trägt die Verantwortung, um etwas gegen zunehmenden Hass in den sozialen Medien zu unternehmen? Die Plattformen? Die Politik? Die Nutzer*innen? Alle drei Gruppen jeweils zu einem Drittel. Zu diese...
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