Julia Kling

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Facebook, the EU and Russia’s war: Challenges of moderating authoritarian news Despite several measures to curb their visibility, this study shows how Facebook mediates predominantly Russian state-aligned news during Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine

A highly recommended read: policyreview.info/articles/ana...

Source: Kling & Poliakoff, 2025 https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/russias-war-moderating-authoritarian-news

[New paper] Facebook, the EU and Russia’s war: Challenges of moderating authoritarian news, By @jkling288.bsky.social, University of Passau, and @sergepoliakoff.bsky.social, University of Amsterdam.
policyreview.info/articles/ana... #Russia #Ukraine #EU #Facebook #Misinformation

ANO Dialog: innovation in controlling Russia’s digital information ANO Dialog, a new organization closely linked to the Russian presidential administration, was founded in Moscow in 2019 with the aim of “creating digital dialogue between the state and the public.”...

A new paper of ours on one of the successor organizations of Russsia's infamous Internet Research Agency (IRA) has been published: Congratulations to my (former) doctoral students and co-authors @sergepoliakoff.bsky.social and @jkling288.bsky.social! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Facebook, the EU and Russia’s war: Challenges of moderating authoritarian news Despite several measures to curb their visibility, this study shows how Facebook mediates predominantly Russian state-aligned news during Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine

The study highlights the complexities of platform governance, Facebook's limited efforts to demote Russian state-aligned news and calls for greater attention of regional language contexts in content moderation. Here is the link: policyreview.info/articles/ana...

Two papers being published the same day, what a coincidence! This study was published at Internet Policy Review. Together with @sergepoliakoff.bsky.social, we investigated the consequences of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Russia’s Russian-language news ecosystem on Facebook.

We demonstrate how russia has transitioned from outsourcing troll farms to setting up a publicly funded, centrally managed disinformation/propaganda ecosystem overseen by the presidential administration. 3/3

Publication Alert 🚨 About ANO Dialog and practices of Russia’s digital control. It is open access!

ANO Dialog: innovation in controlling Russia’s digital information ANO Dialog, a new organization closely linked to the Russian presidential administration, was founded in Moscow in 2019 with the aim of “creating digital dialogue between the state and the public.”...

My new article, “ANO Dialog: Innovation in Controlling Russia’s Digital Information”, is out in Post-Soviet Affairs in Open Access. With @florian-toepfl.bsky.social & @jkling288.bsky.social, we extend our OSINT CV analysis method of Prigozhin’s troll factory to a new case doi.org/10.1080/1060...
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I am officially a Doctor of Social Science!
3.5 years and 5 articles, from Prigozhin's troll factory to ANO Dialog. All written under the careful supervision of @florian-toepfl.bsky.social . Special thanks also go to @jkling288.bsky.social and @kevinlimonier.bsky.social
Stay tuned for new articles!

Fascinating new research reveals what became of Prigozhin's Patriot Media Group following its leadership’s failed mutiny against Putin.

What happened to the PMG after Prigozhin’s mutiny?

Nach dem Aufstand: der Untergang von Jewgenij Prigoschins digitalem Imperium | Länder-Analysen

People ask about my research on Prigozhin's Patriot Media Group: what happened to the PMG after the mutiny? Here's a detailed answer: new data on the CVs of former PMG employees (Oct 2024), the PMG's role in the mutiny, and how ANO Dialog won the competition against Prigozhin doi.org/10.31205/RA....

Seriously?!

In Georgia, students are being expelled from university for protesting for the country’s freedom and European future.

Russia flooding training data to influence chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude A Russian disinformation network called Pravda (“Truth”) has influenced leading AI chatbots’ output by publishing numerous articles that made their way into the bots’ training data, a new report from…

A Russia-based disinformation network published 3.6 million online articles last year for the primary purpose of influencing AI chatbots' output — and succeeded, according to a new report.

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

[New Research] Here are the leading sources of pro-Kremlin narratives on Telegram. Our analysis shows that only a handful of Russian-based Telegram acc. (10) dominate this news ecosystem, influencing the framing around the Russian-Ukraine war on Telegram & beyond. conflictmisinfo.org/leading-spre...

The 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (#ICA25), set for 12-16 June in Denver Colorado, USA, is shaping up to be ICA’s largest conference yet, tracking with Toronto and Paris in terms of preregistration numbers. At the same time, we are closely monitoring the evolving situation in the United States which has raised concerns for some members of the ICA community intending to participate. We recognize your concerns regarding the uncertain environment and appreciate your feedback and perspectives. We affirm ICA’s dedication to a global exchange of knowledge and perspectives and protecting the free exchange of ideas among our members and attendees. Current rhetoric and actions in some US communities run counter to ICA’s commitment to ensuring the full and equal participation of all members of our global academic community and conflict directly with ICA's IDEA principles.

Our immediate plan includes the following interventions, which aim to preserve your right as scholars to freely present your work and collaborate with your peers: As always, we have made standard invitation letters for visa purposes available via the submission website: you can find your letter attached to your profile in ScholarOne (the submission system). As of 19 February, we have done a new run of all letters without the title of the paper(s) mentioned; papers are identified by submission ID number so that your research topics are not mentioned. You may find these new letters in your profile as well.

The fact that this communication is now necessary ... for conferences happening in the *US* ... shocking.

I'm in the process of putting together a review article on how historians have analyzed Russia's War against Ukraine. In the process, I've read A LOT of what has been out there. Allow me to highlight some of my suggestions to help people understand Russia's War in Ukraine:

Federal grant freeze, likely cuts chill local scientists, universities There are more than $6 million active National Science Foundation and National Institute of Health research grants in the Twin Ports and Fond du Lac Reservation.

There are more than $6 million active National Science Foundation and National Institute of Health research grants in the Twin Ports and Fond du Lac Reservation.

Bellingcat is currently working with universities to develop open source investigation courses in various fields and creating student-led investigative hubs at those universities, which seems well timed.

Inauthentic news-pravda websites from Russian Portal Kombat network are now creating accounts on Bluesky.

I created a moderation list, it would be nice to help me to share it. Please do not hesitate to send me new accounts.

Ping @moderation.bsky.app

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Einflussoperation enttarnt: Russland greift in deutschen Wahlkampf ein CORRECTIV hat rund 100 Fake-Nachrichtenseiten enttarnt. Ihr Zweck: die Bundestagswahl mit Desinformation beeinflussen.

Russische #Desinformation steht vor der #Bundestagswahl in den Startlöchern: rund 100 Webseiten, gefüllt mit KI-generierten Texten, warten auf ihren Einsatz. Mehrere Fakes wurden schon aktiviert - einige erinnern sich vielleicht an die Deepfake-Schmutzstory über Habeck? correctiv.org/faktencheck/...

Google won't add fact-checks despite new EU law The company informed EU officials in a new letter.

More tech guardrails are coming down ... "Google has told the EU it will not add fact checks to search results and YouTube videos or use them in ranking or removing content, despite the requirements of a new EU law, according to a copy of a letter obtained by Axios." www.axios.com/2025/01/16/g...

Adding Austria

Interesting! Just tested it myself from #austria

The Great Decentralization | NOEMA What happens when sprawling online communities fracture into politically homogenous, self-governing communities?

“The Great Decentralization — the migration away from large, centralized one-size-fits-all platforms to smaller, ideologically distinct spaces — is fueled by political identity and dissatisfaction.” www.noemamag.com/the-great-de...

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