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Giovanna Mascheroni

@giovannamas.bsky.social

Media sociologist researching digital media, data & AI in children's lives. Dog lover (Eng. Springer Spaniel) TwitterRefugee. Projects: http://www.eukidsonline.net/, https://yskills.eu/, https://datachildfutures.it/ Also on @giovannamas@aoir.social

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LSE Blogs@lseblogs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Should the EU ban young people from accessing social media? @giovannamas.bsky.social, Brian O'Neill & @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @eukidsonline.bsky.social the EU should regulate platforms, not restrict children’s access to digital life @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social

Why mandating and enforcing EU regulation is preferable to a social media ban

Should the EU ban young people from accessing social media? Rather than restricting children’s access to digital life, the EU should regulate platforms instead.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

LSE European Politics@lseeuroppblog.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Should the EU ban young people from accessing social media? ✍ Elisabeth Staksrud @giovannamas.bsky.social Brian O'Neill & @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @eukidsonline.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Why mandating and enforcing EU regulation is preferable to a social media ban

Should the EU ban young people from accessing social media? Rather than restricting children’s access to digital life, the EU should regulate platforms instead.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It

A top management journal measured AI’s impact on submissions and reviews. Submissions rose 42%, writing quality declined and AI reviews proved uninformative to editors.

forbes.com

Giovanna Mascheroni@giovannamas.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"Probably around 10 per cent of them actually have been banned, and half of that 10 per cent has been unbanned by just using basically the same thing that I did: use other people's faces, use their driver's licence. #SocialMediaBan www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Two months into the social media ban, a teenager says it's 'useless'

Australia's world-first social media ban for under-16s is two months old, but teenagers say they have found ways around it.

abc.net.au

Karen Hao@karenhao.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Absolutely damning from @aaronschaffer.com, @willoremus.com, & @nitasha.bsky.social. To get more data, Anthropic: * "destructively scanned" millions of books * downloaded the shadow library LibGen * hailed another shadow library's arrival as "just in time!!!" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books

Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

washingtonpost.com

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems." From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".

We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press

We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.

techpolicy.press

Giovanna Mascheroni@giovannamas.bsky.social · 10mo ago

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... chatbots are “always hallucinating,” he says. “It’s not a malfunction. A predictive model predicts some text, and maybe it’s accurate, maybe it isn’t, but the process is the same either way. To put it another way: LLMs are structurally indifferent to truth.”

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals

Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

rollingstone.com

Gian-Paolo Accardo@gpaccardo.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Particularly proud of publishing this investigation on a major scandal: the EU Commission softened the green finance criteria so as to include weaponery as "sustainable" – something highly questionable according to experts.

Voxeurop – Independent European journalism@voxeurop.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Is "Green" money funding the European war industry with #EU backing? A collaborative investigation reveals a surge in sustainable investments flowing into defence, reaching €50bn in Q1 2025. 🤝 In partnership w/ @elpais.com @mediapart.fr & @irpimedia.eu voxeurop.eu/en/europe-ar...

Giovanna Mascheroni@giovannamas.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We urge qualitative researchers to...reject the use of GenAI in such analyses... 1 GenAI as simulated intelligence is incapable of meaning making 2 Qualitative research should remain a distinctly human practice 3 harms of GenAI to the environment & workers in the Global outh ssrn.com/abstract=567...

<span>We reject the use of generative artificial intelligence for reflexive qualitative research</span>

We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qu

ssrn.com

Giovanna Mascheroni@giovannamas.bsky.social · 11mo ago

“the excessive visibility of a highly active minority at the tip of the iceberg can not only mislead social scientists, but also deceive social media users themselves.”https://www.techpolicy.press/what-a-new-study-reveals-about-the-productionconsumption-gap-on-social-media/