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[cw: explicit] Six years into the deepfake nudes epidemic, we are nowhere near beating back the tools that make this abuse possible. In fact, AI nudifiers are expanding their services and remain unrepentant in their use of mainstream platforms to reach customers. indicator.media/p/ai-nudifie...

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Got this prompted today in my timeline on X. I wonder whether there is some legal reason for why X has to say this 🤔

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dem Schdadddigged

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One key stories for 2026 is going to be control of the House Facebook & Instagram allow advertisers to targeted specific CDs but make it challenging to see all of the targeted activity So I parsed the data & created a new resource that does just that: aarenge.shinyapps.io/2026_meta_CD...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

How did parties and politicians communicate during the 🇩🇪 federal election 25? Together with @dpzberlin.bsky.social & @bertelsmannst.bsky.social we analyzed 18,000+ videos on #Instagram & #TikTok focusing on how they addressed younger voters. spoiler: there is room for improvement 🧵👇

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Shared some thoughts about TikTok’s ad transparency system and the recent announcement from the European Commission in this @techpolicypress.bsky.social article by @ramshajahangir.bsky.social. Check it out if you’re interested in ad transparency & how the European Commission came to its finding!

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If you know me, you know I am obsessed with building dashboards. 😅 Well, I am excited to share that @ernesto-deleon.com, Max Paulus, & I were awarded a small grant to build an #rstats package to make them accessible to other researchers. And we’re hiring a Research Assistant to help us do that!

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

We are looking for a research assistant to help us develop tools to make dashboards easier for social scientists to create 🤩 If you are really into R and passionate about data and science communication, please apply!

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Thrilled to see my 1st PhD paper out in #PartyPolitics! Based on ~15000 posts by 86 German subnat. parties (2015-2019), Simon Franzmann & I show that dominant & challenger parties differ in the use of policy-based vs symbolic & positive vs negative appeals. 🔓: doi.org/10.1177/1354...

submitted 22 days ago • 12 comments

Great work- Go read it!

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

I love it

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George Washington with a comfy pink blanket in heaven is a whole mood

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At the European Commission today for a workshop on systemic risks regarding civic discourse and elections

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Starting the day off by finding a secret data point in the Meta Ad Library which gives more info than you would normally get via the API, including whether an ad included an AI image ("digitally altered"). Will be available in the metatargetr package :)

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Just stumbled upon the King of the Netherlands on my evening walk #JustAmsterdamThings

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Should democracies ban parties that threaten democracy? In the DEMOTRADEOFF project survey we asked people in 15 countries about this. A short 🧵 with some results Citizens are deeply divided about this issue Support for bans is highest in 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇳🇱 🇵🇹 🇨🇭 🇩🇪 www.dw.com/en/germany-i...

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

Daily bunny no.2937 makes a donation

submitted 38 days ago • 33 comments

#COMPTEXT2025 was awesome! So many inspiring talks about text and video analysis 🤓📰. Thanks @fabiennelind.bsky.social, @hajoboo.bsky.social and the rss if the local team for organising it!

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Certainly feels like its been 80 years.

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In 2 years of campagining Donald Trump promised he would end the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 24 hours, or even before taking office. Here I visualize @cnn.com 's timeline of 53 empty promises that fact-checker Daniel Dale put together.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Today, I received a termination for my National Science Foundation CAREER Grant, which employed a post-doc and many undergraduate research assistants.

submitted 39 days ago • 74 comments

🥲

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

If you know me, you know I am obsessed with building dashboards. 😅 Well, I am excited to share that @ernesto-deleon.com, Max Paulus, & I were awarded a small grant to build an #rstats package to make them accessible to other researchers. And we’re hiring a Research Assistant to help us do that!

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oh no

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Bluesky has a Villain of the Day (the Unsolicited Manuscripts account), just like Twitter used to have in the olden days. Nature is healing.

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments

In final days before election, the Conservatives in Canada are spending one fifth of their budget (120k Canadian $) on ads thare are solely targeted at men.

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

"The Hidden Game: How Scammers Use “Chameleon Ads” to Bypass Meta’s Moderation" Over the last few weeks, a series of media stories have highlighted an explosion of fraudulent FB & IG ads that mimic the likeness of high-profile Canadian politicians & news outlets. socialmedialab.ca/2025/04/21/t...

submitted 43 days ago • 4 comments

Today is Lenin’s 155th birthday, and I find myself thinking back to my travels and how Mongolia, like many post-socialist societies, has grappled with its past. When I was in Ulaanbaatar, I got a lead about where Lenin’s statue had ended up after it was removed in 2012.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

an ICA 58' Poster

submitted 47 days ago • 10 comments

Morning Bluesky! Have you cancelled a planned trip or move – holiday, work, short-term or long-term – to the USA? Fancy chatting to me about for a piece? @ me or DM if so, especially if you’re located in the UK. (RTs much appreciated too).

submitted 43 days ago • 26 comments

I am curious to hear thoughts about how we have gotten to this situation. My Bush-era politicization mind cannot comprehend this.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Mir braucha mehr als digidale Souveränidäd, nämlich oi neie Leididee für die digidale Dransformazion unserr Gesellschafd, sagd die Kommunikazionswissenschafdlerin @jupohle.bsky.social. Und diese Idee dürfe sich ned uf die dechnologische Unabhängigkeid vo den USA bschränka. Geklaud vo:

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Last year today I ascended to doctoriety

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Everyone should watch Andor (Season 1). An excellent and timely series about fascism, resistance, and revolution.

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