Mads Hove
@madshovethy.bsky.social
Computational social scientist, Assistant professor @ PoliSci Aarhus University
Meta promised no political ads on their platforms 🛑 But political ads are still very present. @favstats.eu shows this for the Netherlands. And now several politicians were found advertising ahead of 🇩🇰 elections 🗳️ @madshovethy.bsky.social explains why this is problematic. www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...
Flere SF'ere taget i forbudt reklame på Facebook
Ni SF-kandidater har lavet forbudt reklame på Facebook og Instagram, viser optælling fra P1 Orientering.
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Converting a fully finished paper from LaTeX to Word is probably the most painful thing I have ever had to do. Is there really not any reeeeeeelatively easy way of doing it?
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Claes de Vreese@claesdevreese.bsky.social · last yr.Huge congratulations to Dr @madshovethy.bsky.social ✨ Timely and strong dissertation, magnificent defense yesterday at U Amsterdam. Proud supervisors @sarahobolt.bsky.social, Arjen van Dalen and 🙋 A privilege to have worked with you Mads from @ddc-sdu.bsky.social assistantship to Dr! 🚀
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Claes de Vreese@claesdevreese.bsky.social · last yr.Want to know more about political micro-targeting? 🎯 @madshovethy.bsky.social defends his PhD dissertation Friday July 11 @ascor.bsky.social. Supervisors @sarahobolt.bsky.social, Arjen van Dalen (@ddc-sdu.bsky.social) and I are excited. Good luck Mads!🍀 www.uva.nl/en/content/e...
Big tech has a tremendous impact on democracy 🚨New report out w focus on misinformation, content moderation & generative AI Team @anjabechmann.bsky.social @adler-nissen.bsky.social @madshovethy.bsky.social @golovchenko.bsky.social @fghjorth.bsky.social👏 Details⬇️ www.linkedin.com/posts/claes-...
Claes de Vreese on LinkedIn: Big tech has a tremendous impact on our democracies and societies. We…
Big tech has a tremendous impact on our democracies and societies. We presented our new report at a public hearing in The Danish Parliament - Folketinget. The…
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📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 1/7 cup.org/4axBEXo
Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core
Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging
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USA er en banarepublik, der ikke længere overholder international lov. Dets demokrati er i frit fald og vi må forvente, at staten i nogen grad disintegrerer og ikke længere kan løfte alle sine opgaver. USA er ikke længere vores allierede og des før det går op for os des bedre.
See you in Denver at #ICA25! I’m so happy to finally talk about this large cross-national collaboration we did last year! I was fortunate to assemble a team of extraordinary people to study the role of ad delivery algorithms in political campaigns by collaborating with 30+ parties across the EU.
A majority of Danes are in favor of the content moderation policy, which Meta now wants to remove. But there are also areas where most Danes believe that people can decide for themselves, e.g. whether women can share pictures of themselves topless on the beach. See a sample from our report below:
Claes de Vreese@claesdevreese.bsky.social · 2y agoMeta drops content moderation which users want! ⛔ New data show that users (n=2000 Danes) both disagree with some of the announced changes (like referring to religious groups as stupid) *and* dislike some policies being kept. We need voices from users on this. And especially from non-US users.
Having compiled the entirety of my dissertation for the first time has quite a surreal feeling to it
Meta drops content moderation which users want! ⛔ New data show that users (n=2000 Danes) both disagree with some of the announced changes (like referring to religious groups as stupid) *and* dislike some policies being kept. We need voices from users on this. And especially from non-US users.
But I just wrote a whole section in my dissertation on the backdrop that they want to get rid of politics on Meta, and I have to hand it in in three weeks. Grrrrr
Two salient facts about Facebook replacing its fact-checking program with community notes: (1) community notes are cheaper. (2) the incoming political regime dislikes fact-checking. So community notes are less trouble. The rest is just framing. Zuck's sole principle is to do what's best for Zuck.
Brian Fung@brianfung.me · 2y agoZuckerberg says Meta plans to eliminate its fact-checking program, move content moderators to Texas to address claims of bias, raise the bar for enforcing its terms and lift certain “restrictions” on immigration and gender talk. Huge shift in platform policy.
Two things can be true: 1. AI is going to be an increasingly important part of work 2. Saying people need to be able to use AI well in its current form is like the silly obsession with making sure people had Windows PC skills when I was in college www.phillyvoice.com/college-stud...
College students caught between professors' AI bans and employers' growing demand for AI skills
Research shows 75% of workers now use artificial intelligence on the job, yet many universities still classify its use as cheating.
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Folk i Thy forstod ikke, hvad det der BMO, der blev solgt nede på caféen var, så ejeren har oversat til Thybomål 😅
Finishing up my dissertation about microtargeted ads being like
Me: I need to write more pages in one day than I have ever done before. Overleaf:
Fun experience presenting research findings on online misinformation to public libraries in beautiful Southern Jutland 🇩🇰
Unique professorship. Please share 🫶♾️ Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social. Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile. 📆: deadline February 17! fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Professorship in Digital Communication with a Focus on Digital Society
Application Deadline: February 17, 2025.
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Hello everyone! I made a starter pack for those researching and/or monitoring data-driven political campaigns, including techniques like political microtargeting 🎯 Let me know if you'd like to be included! go.bsky.app/NMTmqbH
Google will before Oct next year no longer allow political advertisements on their platforms -- says EU regulation introduces operational challenges and legal uncertainties 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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PUBLICATION ALERT! Our new research in @journalqd.bsky.social maps the global landscape of political microtargeting across 95 countries during 113 elections. @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social, @madshovethy.bsky.social, @madshovethy.bsky.social, Tom Dobber, Natali Helberger, @claesdevreese.bsky.social.
Anyway, it is good that I am currently in Amsterdam and just got the third paper of my dissertation accepted, we (@meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social @madshovethy.bsky.social Tom Dobber Natali Helberger @claesdevreese.bsky.social) & I examine (micro)targeting strategies in 113 elections around the world.
Fabio Votta📊🐧@favstats.eu · 2y agoDid you know that in some parts of Germany, including the city where I was born, it is illegal to dance today?
To what degree and how do Danish political parties use online political microtargeting? @madshovethy.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @claesdevreese.bsky.social and Arjen van Dalen have written a chapter on that topic in the ‘election book’ by the Danish National Election Studies, out today!
