przemyslslaw.bsky.social
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
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I appreciate your points and I agree that international order must be respected. Also, I don't pretend to be an expert and have all answers. Clearly, this is a challenging topic. Also, I agree that international order means striving for neutrality and objectivity, not taking sides.
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Also, I'd greatly appreciate that you stop insinuating. That's not right, nor helpful. Even Zelensky calls for European independence [1]. Finally, I did respond to your question about Budapest Memorandum [2].
[1] www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1454...
[2] bsky.app/profile/prze...
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Russia is responsible for the invasion. But we share the continent, and Russia rivals the US in nuclear weapons, so we need to learn to live with them. If we take a side, rather than being independent and ensuring we have meaningful choices, then we will have limited agency and influence.
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I want the EU that is in charge of its future. Are you suggesting the only choice we have is US or Russia?
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Of course, Europe needs a security solution, so it's not surprising that Poland and others wanted to join NATO. So far, NATO was sufficient, but with this war, we're starting to see its limitations.
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I know, but so far, we've been repeating the US narrative and look how this ends. We aren't even at the negotiating table, and Ukraine will most likely be forced to make concessions to Russia and the US. If we don't adapt, then empires will pick Europe apart, starting from the east and Greenland.
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Of course, Putin says a lot of wrong things, but he is not the one who started these claims:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controv...
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The core of the issue is that we perceive NATO as a neutral defensive alliance, but in reality it was created to counter USSR (later Russia). We may want to replace it with an independent EU army, so that the EU takes care of its security and interests.
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Sounds good. What I've heard so far from a source I trust, but I didn't verify: 1) nuclear weapons were in Ukraine physically, but Ukraine didn't own them and wasn't able to fully operate them without some Russian assistance. 2) the US told USSR that NATO won't expand to the east, but they did.
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Correct, the EU needs to grow in strength and take care of its security. Sachs says the EU shouldn't rely on the US and NATO for security, because Russia and the US will eat us like Ukraine. We should develop a united European foreign policy and create an European army to defend our borders.
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I'm Polish, have a house and family in Poland. However, I don't think it's a good idea that we let fear drive our decision-making, because other powers will use that to achieve their interests, as the recent peace talks between Russia and US without Ukraine show. Russia fears the US, not us.
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He advocates for peace. In a polarized word, such people are often perceived as enemies of both sides. He claims the war could have been prevented, but the US didn't seek it, because there was nothing to loose for the US, while the EU blindly followed the US, because it doesn't have foreign policy.
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Jeffrey Sachs isn't an European politician. He is a professor from Columbia University who advised Polish government in 1990, Russian government in 1991 and later, and is a director in the UN:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RNE...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey...
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The story didn't start in 2022, nor 2021, nor 2014. I recommend that you watch the part of recording discussing NATO enlargement after 1990:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RNE...
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Yes, it's scary.
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Sachs's full speech is long, but every European who wants to stay informed in these historic times may want to watch it. It provides a rare first-hand account of global politics and crucial recommendations for Europe: 🧵2/2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RNE...
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Do you have some examples in mind?
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Great point! Our Supplementary Information (linked below) lists the followed politicians. These accounts were chosen by Paul Krauss. He aimed to follow users that are representative of each party.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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It'd be great that Bsky matched in size X, but so far X remains important, because it still has ~10x more users than Bsky.
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To complete our understanding of differences in exposure and engagement between political parties, and to inform our societies, there is a need for further research.
This work wouldn't be possible without a fantastic team! Many thanks to @tabia-prema.bsky.social, @cbagchi.bsky.social others! 🧵5/5
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Fourth, we regress the number of feed appearances against a range of factors. We find that engagement measures and unknown factors related to party affiliation significantly contribute to the overrepresentation of extremes of the German political party spectrum in the feed (figure).🧵4/5
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Third, an average post of AfD members tends to receive more likes and retweets (figure). However, the posts of SPD, CDU, and Greens tend to receive similar numbers of engagements as other non-AfD parties, yet they appear less often in the feed than they tweet.🧵3/5
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Second, the top two users most-appearing in the For You feed are Elon Musk, who supports AfD, and Alex Jones, an American far-right radio show host. Neither of them is followed by our sock puppet accounts – they follow (roughly) the same number of German parliamentarians from each party.🧵2/5
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Absolutely. To learn more about online platforms, we need platform transparency regulations, but Zuckerberg in his announcement refers to platform transparency and accountability regulations in Europe (EU's #DSA and UK's #OSA) as "censorship", shooting transparency down. That's outrageous! 🤯
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Absolutely. That's the shocking part of Zuckerberg's announcement: he refers to online platform transparency and accountability regulations in Europe (EU's #DSA and UK's #OSA) as "censorship", which is opposite of transparency... That's outrageous! 🤯
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And @przemyslslaw.bsky.social brill take on Meta, DSA & OSA and what mark seems to (intentionally?) lack bsky.app/profile/prze...
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Thanks for sharing! I love how this (AI generated) hand has 6 fingers 😁
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X and now Meta use "free speech" as a marketing slogan to attract users when in reality they censor and change feed algorithms at will. They oppose transparency and accountability by calling democratic oversight "censorship". I attach examples of political censorship and manipulation on X:
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Sure, thanks for asking. To be precise, it was JD Vance who communicated that, who is now the US vice president-elect. I wrote "the US" due to space constraints:
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Meta joins X in coercing the EU to let them operate without any oversight. A few months earlier, the US threatened the EU to veto NATO if the EU regulates misinformation on X! If #DSA is affected, we may be unable to tell the effect of online platforms on our societies and democratic elections. 5/5
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Second, community notes can be designed to be effective and impartial at identifying false claims, but would we be able to independently verify that? #DSA was created to enable researchers to address such tasks, but Zuckerberg seems to oppose it now, misnaming to it as "censorship". 4/5
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First, the goal of #DSA and #OSA isn't censorship. Ironically, that's misleading. The goal is to understand and prevent systemic risks to society from large online platforms, such as Facebook and X, by enabling research of systemic risks, e.g., disinformation. Censorship isn't the goal. 3/5
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Zuckerberg says that "Europe has an ever increasing number of laws institutionalising censorship". He must be referring to EU's #DSA and UK's #OSA. Then, he declares that he will work with Trump to "push back" against such regulations, misnaming them as "censorship". Here is why this matters... 2/5
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> will Meta commit to publicly releasing data so people can actually study this?
No, unfortunately. In his video Zuckerberg said "Europe has an ever increasing number of laws institutionalising censorship" in reference to #DSA, our best hope for transparency. He will work with Trump to "push back".