| Website U Amsterdam: | https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/v/r/c.h.devreese/c.h.devreese.html?cb |
| Website DDC: | https://www.sdu.dk/en/ddc |
| Website AI, Media & Democracy Lab | https://www.aim4dem.nl |
| Website Humane AI | https://humane-ai.nl |
Meta ends political ads on their platforms in the EU by October because they don't want to comply with new transparency and targeting regulations.
The reasons given here are really weak. And if you do *not* allow these ads, you still need to define what they are.
#politics #advertising #targeting
https://about.fb.com/news/2025/07/ending-political-electoral-and-social-issue-advertising-in-the-eu/
Das letzte Puzzlestück für den Forschungszugang für nicht öffentlich verfügbare #Plattformdaten ist da. Die Aufgaben für #DSCs, #Forschende und #Plattformen sind nun klar verteilt.
Die Wissenschaftler:innen @lkseiling , @dscheykopp , @claesdevreese & @ulrikeklinger warnen davor, das Vertrauen auf allen Seiten nicht zu enttäuschen und schnell zu liefern.
Ireland. As wet, green, beautiful, lovely as expected
#ireland #photography #summer 🇮🇪 🌧️ ⛰️💚
This is an interesting case:
French prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into X over allegations that X manipulated its algorithms for the purposes of “foreign interference".
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-opens-criminal-probe-into-x-for-algorithm-manipulation/
Stand up for academic freedom 💪🏽
This Digital Journalism commentary by leading scholars across the 🌍 argues that the field must develop approaches that actively resist authoritarianism and uphold freedom of expression and inquiry.
#support #journalism #science #freedom
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2025.2527997#abstract
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Submit to our Digital Journalism special issue 🚀
Info: https://drive.google.com/file/d/182p3bCsC8w426bUfmvGPq5wYJbEPBDbL/view
🗓️ Abstracts: September 15
Great editorial team with Curd Knupfer, @Lenafrescamente, Marilia Gehrke and 🙋
‘The social media blitzkrieg consisted of “misinformation” and a multimillion dollar Leninist-style effort to destroy democracy in Romania’
Fmr US ambassadors to 🇷🇴 on Russia’s electoral interference.
AI is *not* the biggest threat to democracy.
Anti-democratic politicians are.
But AI is changing the information ecosystem, also ahead of elections. And we need ways of dealing with it.
Sad that reporting is needed on how to safely enter 🇺🇸 with electronic devices.
Article shows that it is no small feat. A travel phone is an option. But a sanitized version also requires “separate communication and social media accounts created specifically for travel”
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protect-yourself-from-phone-searches-at-the-us-border/
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