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Kris Ruijgrok

@krisruijgrok.bsky.social

Assistant Professor @ UvA, political scientist studying digital authoritarianism, internet shutdowns, computational propaganda, India & Southeast Asia, Partij voor de Dieren www.krisruijgrok.com

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Marc Owen Jones@marcowenjones.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My article 'Evidencing alethocide: Israel’s war on truth in Gaza' in Third World Quarterly is currently free to access, download it while you can! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #GazaGenocide‌

Evidencing alethocide: Israel’s war on truth in Gaza

This paper examines Israel’s systematic deployment of disinformation during its war on Gaza since October 2023, introducing the concept of ‘alethocide’ – the systemic destruction of truth. Using a ...

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Tom-Jan Meeus@tomjanmeeus.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Het Kamerlid dat met zes anderen de PVV-fractie verliet omdat hij Wilders niet constructief genoeg vindt, roept nu op Palestijnen aan de grens ‘met geweld’ tegen te houden. Geen enkel normbesef. De politieke vraag: kunnen D66, VVD en CDA nog met zo iemand samenwerken?

Michael Bang Petersen@m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 New in Nature Human Behaviour: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Many prior accounts of social media hostility focus on algorithms. With @boralexander.bsky.social, @a-marie-sci.bsky.social & @leapradella.bsky.social, we use data from 30 countries to focus on the role of societal conditions. 🧵1/7

Social media users experience more political hostility in less economically equal and less democratic societies - Nature Human Behaviour

Drawing on survey data from 30 countries, Bor et al. find that online political hostility is higher in more unequal and less democratic societies.

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Partij voor de Dieren@partijvoordedieren.nl · 4mo ago

Mannetjeskuikens leggen geen eieren en zijn daarom een ‘restproduct’ in de eierindustrie. Omdat er geen geld aan ze kan worden verdiend, worden ze direct na geboorte vergast. Dat is de verschrikkelijke realiteit achter eieren. Het kan ook anders. Kies voor een plantaardig Pasen! 🐣💛

Marc Owen Jones@marcowenjones.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I've built a free open-source intelligence dashboard tracking every coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB) operation Meta has disclosed since 2018. 214 operations. 53 origin countries. $22.7M in ad spend. 71 reports analysed. Access it here! marcowenjones.substack.com/p/i-created-... #disinfo

I created a free interactive dashboard documenting all META's influence operation takedowns

A searchable database and interactive dashboard collating all META's CIB and ATP reports

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Marc Owen Jones@marcowenjones.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New York Times, like lots of liberal media, even in opposition to war, always talk about war on Iran being something that should actually be a "reasonable debate". This is such imperial discourse. Imagine other country's ndiscussing whether war on the US is reasonable

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Remco Breuker 🟥@remcobreuker.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Een minister van Buitenlandse Zaken die in de eerste week van zijn ambtstermijn doodleuk zegt dat "het internationale recht niet enige kader om de situatie te beoordelen is." Als het dat niet altijd wél is, is er geen internationaal recht meer.

Alberto Fittarelli@fittarelli.com · 6mo ago

1/ NEW: There’s currently a heavy push over X in support of (1) the ongoing attacks on Iran (2) Reza Pahlavi. It’s hard to quickly quantify this wave, but anecdotal evidence shows that the main support hashtags - as well as by the *real* people promoting them - are also pushed inorganically.

Gerbrand Oudenaarden@gerbrand.nl · 6mo ago

Nieuwe aflevering Subcurrents: Pieter van Boheemen (postxsociety) over hoe trollenlegers, AI-deepfakes en platformalgoritmes onze verkiezingen beïnvloeden. En waarom digitale onafhankelijkheid nu urgenter is dan ooit. subcurrents.nl/pieter-van-b...

Pieter van Boheemen: "Sociale Media zijn onderdeel van de militaire infrastructuur"

▶ YouTube ▶ PeerTube 🎧 Apple Podcasts 🎧 Podcast 🎧 Spotify Wat gebeurt er met een democratie wanneer de infrastructuur van het publieke debat in handen is van een paar techbedrijven?  ...

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Kate Starbird@katestarbird.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Here’s that (disturbing) new study about the effects of Twitter/X’s biased algorithm: bsky.app/profile/eliz...

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
Claes de Vreese@claesdevreese.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hoe Jim Jordan en de MAGA movement de DSA, civil society, toezichthouders, onderzoekers en journalisten ondermijnen. Heel belangrijk stuk van @harmbotje.bsky.social en @alexfanta.bsky.social in @ftm.nl www.ftm.nl/artikelen/nu...

Nu de EU big tech wil reguleren, zet Amerika Europa onder druk wegens ‘censuur’

Ze bestrijden nepnieuws, haat en verkiezingsfraude. Nu staan ze zelf op een Amerikaanse zwarte lijst. Europa’s digitale waakhonden zijn het nieuwe doelwit van Trump en zijn bondgenoten – en Brussel we...

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Kris Ruijgrok@krisruijgrok.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Just read a fascinating piece by @nstremlau.bsky.social on internet shutdowns in Africa. doi.org/10.1111%2F17... She argues that framing shutdowns primarily as blunt tools of censorship — the dominant human rights narrative — can obscure why they occur.

Internet Shutdowns, Sovereignty, and the Postcolonial State in Africa

Despite strong international condemnation, there is growing acceptance of internet shutdowns as a legitimate response to online content that governments—particularly in Africa—find concerning. This a....

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Partij voor de Dieren@partijvoordedieren.nl · 6mo ago

Minder dieren fokken en doden in ons land betekent: minder CO2-uitstoot, minder stikstof, schoner water, schonere lucht, minder ontbossing, meer ruimte voor natuur en woningen. En natuurlijk: véél minder dierenleed. Wat ons betreft komt er morgen nog een einde aan de bio-industrie!

John Scott-Railton@jsrailton.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NEW: Paragon spyware hit a key Italian campaign manager / political strategist. Super concerning case & a reminder that Italy has a growing pile of unexplained infections with Paragon's Graphite spyware.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai@lorenzofb.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NEW: The Paragon spyware scandal in Italy widens again. A political consultant who works with left-wing politicians, who are part of the opposition party Partito Democratico, has now come out as the latest target. "It is time to ask a very simple question: Why? Why me?" Francesco Nicodemos said.

Simon van Teutem@simonvanteutem.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Zieke biggen, samengeperst in vrachtwagens zonder toegang tot water. Kijk naar de filmpjes, het is werkelijk om te janken. Wanneer stopt deze waanzin? nos.nl/nieuwsuur/ar...

Dierenleed bij vervoer 'restbiggen': 'Dit is geen transport, dit is overleven'

Elk jaar worden er honderdduizenden zogenoemde 'restbiggen', die ongeschikt zijn als vleesvarken in Nederland, naar Zuid-Europa vervoerd. Daarbij gaat veel mis, zien dierenorganisaties.

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Kris Ruijgrok@krisruijgrok.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Article ALERT: doi.org/10.1080/1058... Towards the Comparative Study of Domestic Influence Operations: Cyber Troops and Elite Competition in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand – Political Communication How do domestic online influence operations vary across countries, and why?🧵

Towards the Comparative Study of Domestic Influence Operations: Cyber Troops and Elite Competition in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand

Online influence operations (IO) are typically studied as isolated cases, often independent of their political context. In this study, based on 78 in-depth interviews with industry insiders, we exp...

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