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CS faculty at University College Dublin and the University of Massachusetts Amherst: responsible AI, social media, news media, computational social science, applied NLP, open-world AI RT≠endorsement, RT=interesting read More: https://przemyslslaw.github.io
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Two days ago, in a historic speech to the European Parliament 🇪🇺, Jeffrey Sachs revealed that a U.S. National Security Advisor privately admitted a simple truth about NATO—one that, if acknowledged publicly, could have prevented Russia’s invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇦. 🧵1/2 youtube.com/clip/UgkxaCi...

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In advance of the federal election on 23 February 2025, a team led by Assist. Prof. @przemyslslaw.bsky.social in @ucdcs.bsky.social examined whether German X users see politically balanced news feeds if they follow comparable leading politicians from each parliamentary party. www.ucd.ie/cs/news

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Here are the take-home messages of our research "Political Biases on X before the 2025 German Federal Election" (link) broadcast yesterday by ZDF. First, we find that the default feed of X showed more content from far-right AfD than from other political parties (figure).🧵1/5 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Our study appeared tonight on ZDF, Germany's public TV channel! 📺🙈 You can learn about "Political Biases on X before the 2025 German Federal Election" in the attached report. This wouldn't be possible without fantastic teamwork! 🎯 www.zdf.de/politik/fron... uncommongood.substack.com/p/political-...

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“The most striking component of Zuckerberg’s announcement is his unapologetic blow to global accountability in favor of a US centric vision” Some of the potential consequences of Silicon Valley’s America First pivot techpolicy.press/tech-bro-pow...

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A lot is at stake. Time to act, writes @emilybell.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Over 60 German and Austrian universities, the German Federal Court of Justice and multiple top German football clubs have announced that they will be withdrawing from Twitter (X), due to US oligarch Elon Musk's "discussion" (collaboration) with Germany's neo-Nazi party (AfD) Alice Weidl.

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Whenever I talk to researchers trying to answer crucial questions related to social media/misinfo/etc I run into this problem: We simply don’t know enough about how exactly these platforms operate to really understand what effects changes in algorithm or content moderation will ultimately have…

submitted 48 days ago • 14 comments

Great post by @mantzarlis.com in Nieman Lab, fact-checking Zuckerberg's nonsense. www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/zuck...

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Interesting thread on Meta is ending their Facebook/Instagram fact checking program.

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There is nothing normal about a company that helps define what almost half of humanity sees on their screens explicitly promising to support a far-right leader, writes João C. Magalhães. www.techpolicy.press/meta-is-not-...

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Interesting thread on the research perspective on yesterday's announcement 👇

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Meta is ending their Facebook/Instagram fact checking program and moving to X-style community notes. I'd like to emphasize something that's less noticed in Zuckerberg's announcement, yet may end up being more important to researchers and our democratic societies... 1/5 about.fb.com/news/2025/01...

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

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🚨In Nature🚨 Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias? We this test empirically & find that conservatives * ARE suspended more * BUT share more misinfo So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?

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