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manuelpuppis.bsky.social
Professor of Media Structures & Governance at DCM, University of Fribourg. Vice-President Swiss Federal Media Commission. Doing comparative research on media policy, platform governance, digitalization of the public sphere, Swiss media system.
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I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

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Sadly one can only unsubscribe from this rag once. (Why not call it "dozens", that'd make Bezos even happier and in the scheme of things would not be that much more inaccurate.)

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NEW: Democracy is alive in Philly! Amazing scenes in Philadelphia as thousands hit the streets for the anti-Trump protest. #NoKings #50501Movement

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Philly ❤️

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Seen this going around but I’m Reposting it with the full alt text bc everyone deserves to read this glorious reply from Boy George

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LMAOOOO www.instagram.com/reel/DK2nMmJ...

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Hitting a new low by the minute

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ANALYSE! Warum die Sparrunden genau richtig waren

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Dieses "Kinderbuch" macht fassungslos. netzpolitik.org/2025/frontex...

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My work here is done

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"epd Medien" hat mich zum Jubiläum der ARD eigeladen, einen Blick von aussen auf die deutsche Medienpolitik zu werfen. medien.epd.de/article/3163

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Was soll der #servicepublic in Zukunft leisten? persoenlich.com/medien/promi...

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This WSJ story about the decline in search traffic because of AI summaries is so grim. Every single outlet spent 15+ years contorting their coverage to cover the same things as everyone else trying to grab SEO, only for Google to rugpull them, just like social networks did. tinyurl.com/bdpzc399

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don’t forget: waymos and other robotaxis are surveillance devices on wheels that police are increasingly tapping for footage

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Really, unequivocally, the best book title of 2025.

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Hard to reach any other conclusion from this video than that police in LA deliberately shot with a rubber bullet at an Australian journalist who was clearly reporting on events.

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A few years ago I re-read a right-leaning book about "the university" and how it had gone wrong. The authors cited four courses at Stanford that were supposedly representative of a new spirit of left-wing groupthink (what would later be termed "wokeness"). (1/5)

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Breaking: ABC News says senior national correspondent Terry Moran "has been suspended pending further evaluation." This since-deleted tweet is the reason for the suspension:

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So sorry to miss ICA this year.

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White flight ☠️😂

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“Researchers noticed an explosion of extremist content on social media: invented stories about vaccine-related deaths, calls for Ardern & top health officials to face Nuremberg 2.0 trials, & various conspiracy theories. The posts were traced to Russian troll farms.” www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

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Auch für diesen Autor, den renommierten Staatsrechtler Georg Müller, fand die NZZ keinen Platz, wie schon für alt Nationalrat Kurt Fluri (FDP, Solothurn). "Unser Recht" macht auch Georg Müllers Beurteilung zugänglich.

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Mehr Geld für lokalen Rundfunk? Meine Einschätzung gab es gestern im SRF Radio. Begeisterung wird sie kaum auslösen. www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...

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The opening is chilling:

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🧵 PBS and NPR have 45 days to salvage their federal funding — starting now. Trump's unusual "rescission" request has been sent to Congress, starting a 45-day clock for Congress to either approve or ignore the proposal.

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NEW REPORT: Artificial Power, our 2025 Landscape Report, is out. Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible. Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape

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“It is unclear what happened in the yrs between the deaths of 19 patients and the 1880s, when a New Orleans doctor sent the skulls to a doctor in Germany who researched the then-popular practice of phrenology.” Never forget the rise of Jim Crow enabled the rise of the Third Reich on so many levels…

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Deutschland will Werbung bei Google und Meta nach Österreichs Vorbild besteuern Kulturminister Weimer plant aber gleich zehn Prozent Abgabe. Österreich nahm 2024 mit fünf Prozent Digitalsteuer 124,1 Millionen Euro ein www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

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Interview zu unserer "Crowding-Out"-Studie bei @persoenlich.com Kurz: Wird SRF News abgeschaltet, entspricht es dem «gesunden Menschenverstand», dass die Nutzenden auf kostenlose Alternativen ausweichen und nicht plötzlich ein Abo abschliessen. #Servicepublic www.persoenlich.com/medien/die-s...

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I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

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Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."

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Public service media zum Dritten. #Braunschlag kommt zurück. #Bauxi orf.at/stories/3395...

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Vom Wegfall des öffentlichen Onlineangebots SRF News würden vor allem kostenfreie Nachrichtenangebote profitieren, nur marginal private Online-Nachrichtenangebote. Dies zeigte sich in einer aktuellen Analyse für die Deutschschweiz: www.ard-media.de/mediaperspek...

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Noch mehr Service public und #Medienpolitik: Verdrängt das Online-Nachrichtenangebot von SRF private Medien? Nein - unsere Marktsimulation zeigt, dass bei einer Abschaltung von "SRF News" private Bezahlangebote kaum profitieren würden. Full Paper kostenlos bei @media-perspektiven.bsky.social

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Neues Positionspapier der Eidgenössischen Medienkommission #EMEK zum medialen Service public: Vom «profit space» zum «public space»: Die EMEK plädiert für eine Weiterentwicklung zu einer modernen technologie- und vektorneutralen Infrastruktur. www.emek.admin.ch/de/service-p...

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Zu Facebook, Google & Co. fliessen mittlerweile aus der Schweiz mehr Werbegelder ab als in die Schweizer Presse, Radio, TV und Online-Angebote zusammengenommen. www.srf.ch/news/wirtsch...

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What a recap! #SGKM2025 – three days of ideas, exchange, and around 130 guests who brought Chur to life. Thanks to everyone who joined. Pro tip: Follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram to see more content! 😉

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"GENE PARMESAN!!"

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In her keynote, @natalihelberger.bsky.social emphasizes that AI is not an end in itself but a tool that should be designed in a way that it promotes the values of our democratic societies. #SGKM2025 @sgkm2025.bsky.social

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Breaking news: The Trump administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students, saying it allowed anti-American agitators. Existing foreign students must transfer or risk losing their legal status, DHS said.

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Der Amazon-Konzern weigert sich, die Cloud-Verträge mit dem Schweizer Staat öffentlich zu machen – obwohl der Staat einer Veröffentlichung schon längst zugestimmt hat. Das Thema berührt die digitale Souveränität. Auch in Deutschland gibt es Kooperationen mit Amazon. netzpolitik.org/2025/digital...

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JUST IN: Attorneys for Burmese and Vietnamese migrants accuse the Trump administration deporting them to South Sudan in violation of a court order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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