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Elon Musk, die AfD und das Agenda-Setting der radikalen Rechten im Bundestagswahlkampf 2025 leibniz-hbi.de/elon-musk-di...

TikTok has NOT revealed its algorithm points system for how it ranks videos but maybe or maybe not the system works something like this @('_')@ www.linkedin.com/posts/mattna...

"Ironie, Post-Ironie und absolute Ernsthaftigkeit schichten sich Ăźbereinander, bis niemand mehr auf den Boden blicken kann und es alles gleichzeitig ist."

AI coup

TikTok Wahlkampf - erste Auswertungen. Hier Fleißarbeit aus Köln

Finally online: My essay on #PlatformRealism for #Transbordeur. There couldn't be a more appropriate day to publish it, even though when I wrote it last year I couldn't have imagined the extent to which the aesthetics of AI slop would become the basis of a new #MemeFascism

"It’s About Aura, Not Content." 032c.com/magazine/it-...

"I spend most of my time on TikTok" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

If Hurricane Milton resulted in the „fuck it era of AI slop“ then what exactly is this? The „fantasy island era“ of political communication?

It’s still business as usual for TikTok digiday.com/marketing/he...

Using ChatGPT for analysing TikTok data tiktoktiktoktiktok.substack.com/p/139-die-ta...

This sound meme shaped the last days of the election campaign on TikTok. Germany wants to go back to la la land. tiktoktiktoktiktok.substack.com/p/139-die-ta...

Wie TikTok mit parteipolitischen Inhalten im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl 2025 umgeht isdgermany.org/wahlkampf-im...

The AfD doesn’t need to win. The far-right party is already reshaping Germany. www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Talked to @politico.eu how Germany’s far right is harnessing AI as emotional cliché amplifier to win votes www.politico.eu/article/germ...

“The Trump administration is now bringing the post–World War II era to an end”

New TikTok Content Scraper out there github.com/Q-Bukold/Tik...

"TikTok displayed the greatest right-wing skew, per its findings — showing right-leaning content 74% of the time." techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...

This is vile. And the White House's official social media communication

ISD’s newest investigation examines the German far-right’s use of generative AI. A range of actors are using the technology to rapidly produce and promote videos, images, text and even songs. The spread of this content also exposes gaps in the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). ow.ly/GPIH50V2fWu

What we know about TikTok content creators www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Mitmachprojekt: Wie beeinflusst TikTok die Wahlentscheidung? www.br.de/nachrichten/...

‘The greatest propaganda op in history’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I’m having great difficulty right now seeing how our political system doesn’t devolve into violence.

Why TikTok’s loss might be Instagram’s gain as Reels grows in content and audience digiday.com/marketing/wh...

“We owe it to each other not only to reject the idea that there is nothing we can do, but to resist these attempts to overwhelm, distract and divide us.”

Between Musk’s overt and the Kremlin’s covert operations,” she said, “it is clear from the content that there’s mutual reinforcement there.”

TikTok social drama as a site of Black feminist intellectual production www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Politicisation of influencers workshop www.uu.nl/en/events/po...

the new Nazi normal

She posted a video on Jan. 20 welcoming her 35 students to the course. By the next morning, it had surfaced in the algorithm of enough TikTok users that 250,000 people had subscribed to her channel. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/s...

Wahlkämpfe sind Schlßsselphasen politischer Kommunikation (Sarcinelli 2011) und Spiegel der jeweiligen politischen Kultur (Mergel 2010).

~ the largest data breach in the country’s history ~

German federal election countdown: 16 days to go. Political vibes on German TikTok these days: Scholz and team go ballistic, the left can meme and AĚśI slop turns into AfD slop understanding-tiktok.com

The turn to (legal and political) symbolism

I very much hope that Doug’s winter party goes okay despite the internet frenzy. Will it be possible to go through a hype cycle for once without any kind of meme coins, doxing, exploitation or pure evil? www.dexerto.com/tiktok/dougs...