🚨 new publication with @nickmattis.bsky.social: “The Authenticity Challenge” On the transformative nature of generative AI for journalism and the need to redefine authenticity as a process to preserve credibility in an AI saturated information ecosystem. ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wj...

Save (some of)the best for last #ica26 @rensvliegenthart.bsky.social Warning or Guiding? Comparing the Effect of Pos-Neg Boosting Interventions and the Role of Repetition for the Effects of Misinformation’ @sannetamboer.bsky.social Svenja Schäfer @nickmattis.bsky.social @skruikemeier.bsky.social & 🙋

Are you interested in advocacy and democratic values in European research and higher education? 📢 The European Council of Doctoral and Junior Researchers invites you to apply for the Ambassador Programme for Values and Democracy. 🗓️ Registration deadline: 31 March. eurodoc.net/news/2026/eu...

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done

Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.

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Morgen verkiezingen 🗳️ #GR2026 🎯 Veel AI berichten online 🎯 Vooral op Facebook 🎯 PVV is grootste 'AI-producent' 🎯 90% van AI inhoud is niet gelabeld als AI 🔊Het voorbeeld hieronder is 100% AI ⬇️ Dit en veel meer te zien op: gr26.campaigntracker.nl @favstats.eu @ascor.bsky.social @algosoc.org

“Nudges for news recommenders: prominent article positioning increases selection, engagement, and recall of environmental news, but reducing complexity does not”, by @nickmattis.bsky.social Heitz @masurphil.bsky.social @judith-moeller.bsky.social @vanatteveldt.com doi.org/10.1093/joc/...

If you do research with/about LLMs, image or audio models, or classic NLP methods, you should check out this call 👇 #textasdata #NLP #llm #commsky #polsky

The COMPTEXT Association@comptext.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Submission for #COMPTEXT2026 is still open 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲. We are looking forward to receiving your proposals for papers and panels. We also appreciate it if you can spread the word and circulate shorturl.at/gRg0p! See you in Birmingham, 23–25 April 2026!

🚨 New CampAIgn Tracker + Hiring 3 Research Assistants! 🚨 Together w/ @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social & colleagues at UvA (@claesdevreese.bsky.social @teresaelena.bsky.social, @nickmattis.bsky.social, @philippdarius.bsky.social), we’re launching a project on GenAI in the 2026 Dutch local elections 🇳🇱

NEW PREPRINT 💡 Together with @dougaparry.bsky.social, I just published a new preprint experimentally examining how specific normative cues on social media shape self-disclosure using an innovative simulation approach. Link: osf.io/preprints/ps... Read on for more information (1/9) 👇

OpenAI’s Sora: When Seeing Should Not Be Believing New text-to-video tool from the leading AI company generates convincing videos advancing false claims 80 percent of the time when prompted to do so, a NewsGuard analysis found www.newsguardtech.com/special-repo...

OpenAI’s Sora: When Seeing Should Not Be Believing

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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: “If China were to move against Taiwan, it's likely China would force its junior partner in that relationship, being Russia, under Vladimir Putin, to move against NATO to keep us busy.”

🚨 PhD Position at the University of Amsterdam 🚨 Join my team as a computer scientist / computational social scientist working on LLMs, social media, and politics. We offer freedom, impact, and an inspiring environment at one of Europe's leading universities. 🔗 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — PhD Position on Improving Social Media Using Large Language Models

The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam is inviting applications for a fully funded PhD position in the NWO VIDI project "Improving Social Media Using L...

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New paper on algorithmic gatekeeping & news engagement out at JOC! Lucien Heitz, @masurphil.bsky.social, @judith-moeller.bsky.social, @vanatteveldt.com & me ran a 1-week long field experiment to test if we can nudge people to read (and learn from) environmental news. doi.org/10.1093/joc/...

Nudges for news recommenders: prominent article positioning increases selection, engagement, and recall of environmental news, but reducing complexity does not

Abstract. News aggregators inherently constitute choice architectures in which placement and presentation of news articles in the user interface affect how

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@jbgruber.bsky.social kicking off @icacm.bsky.social 's tool demo session, and the best thing is: everything is on github! github.com/JBGruber/ica... - check it out if you need to scrape news or retrieve tiktok data and want sth that just works! #ica25

GitHub - JBGruber/ica25_tool-demos: Tool Demo Scripts for ICA 2025

Tool Demo Scripts for ICA 2025. Contribute to JBGruber/ica25_tool-demos development by creating an account on GitHub.

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📣 It's #DNR day. Which means that one of the most important report on news in the digital age has been published. It contains data from 40+ countries 🙏. Some findings from the executive summary 👇🧵 @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Full report: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

How is #AI reshaping journalism research, education, and practice? Join me, Seth Lewis, @natalihelberger.bsky.social, and @nickmattis.bsky.social to chat about the challenges, the hype, and the future of the field. 📆 June 2nd, 16:00 (CET). 📍 SPUI25 (or stream online). ➡️ spui25.nl/programma/th...

The Future of Journalism (Studies) in the Age of AI

This panel examines the range of approaches currently used in journalism studies to analyze AI and news. It aims to identify which approaches are proving most productive, which may be less useful, and...

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🚨 PhD position in Political Communication at @ascor.bsky.social 🚨 Come work with @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lindabos.bsky.social and myself on a 4-year project about visual communication & political anger DL June 4 - Thanks to repost for diversity! 🔥 @polcomm.bsky.social ➡️ tinyurl.com/8yvbkwxu

Vacancy — PhD Position "Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics"

Are you curious about how images, videos, and memes transform political communication? Are you passionate about digital technology and the future of democracy? Then apply for this PhD project focused ...

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🇪🇺 Why and How the European Union is protecting our right to access diversity of news diets online? Check the answers on the video summary of the first Symposium on Diversity of News Media Diets and its Effects on Democratic Citizenship. diversitynewsdiets.blog

In their silence against Trump, business leaders are saying their fear and idolatry of the dollar trumps all. Their silence is cowardice. www.profgalloway.com/breaking-the...

Breaking the Silence | No Mercy / No Malice

Hello, Mr. President At different points, I’ve worked with 30 Fortune 100 CEOs. I believe 90% of them wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and think, “Hello, Mr. President.” These are talented,...

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🚨New blog: 𝐓𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐏𝐮𝐳𝐳𝐥𝐞: 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐈 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 The question of whether & how to disclose AI use in news & journalism remains a unresolved issue. We offer 5 perspectives from research(-in-progress) 👇 medium.com/p/0969b3bcc489

Tackling the Transparency Puzzle

Five Perspectives from AI Disclosure Research in News

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Musks pronatalisme is onderdeel van de longtermisme-'filosofie', een ideologie met heel veel (eugenetische, racistische, anti-democratische) haken en ogen. Ik schreef er een langer stuk over: www.nederlandseboekengids.com/20220125-mar... (Erg veel zelfpromotie vandaag, sorry not sorry).

Marijn Sax | Utilisme 'on steroids'

Marijn Sax | Utilisme 'on steroids'

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NRC@nrc.nl · last yr.

Hoe Musk met z’n groeiende ‘legioen’ kinderen de beschaving wil redden

The Future of News Consumption panel at the @algosoc.org Conference featuring @claesdevreese.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social. Some key takeaways 👇🧵

Stoked to finally see my research from the last four years in book form 😍

Happy to share my first solo-authored paper - now published in the Journal of Media Psychology. In this experiment, I investigated how thematic vs episodic news frames influence learning and explored the role of individual framing preferences in these effects. econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/full/10....

Framed for You: Exploring Cognitive Effects of Episodic Versus Thematic Frames and the Moderating Role of Framing Preferences: Journal of Media Psychology: Vol 0, No 0

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Today! The University of Amsterdam strikes against budget cuts in higher education 🆘 @woinactie.bsky.social @eppobruins.bsky.social www.uva.nl/en/content/e...

UvA strike against budget cuts in higher education

The UvA will be striking against budget cuts in higher education. On Monday, 17 March, UvA employees will stop their work and take part in all-day actions against budget cuts. Join us!

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Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow’s vision, Kremlin says. TIME Magazine cover says it all (from 2017) www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

German digital campaigning is so weird. There's a fraction over three weeks to the election, and the biggest parties are doing *nothing* with digital ads. E.g. SPD and CDU are spending around 1/20th of what Labour and the Tories were spending in the UK with three weeks to go last summer.

Who could have guessed that DeepSeek is not the best place for learning about Taiwan's history and political leaders... Surprising though that even Chinese history brought up a filter unless specifically prompted to give me something uncontroversial.