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@madshovethy.bsky.social

Political Scientist, Postdoc Aarhus University | microtargeting, misinformation, polarization

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I should have known there was a reason for something so unheard of!

06.09.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, not cool, Hannes! 😑😑

06.09.2025 10:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Target didn’t figure out a teen girl was pregnant before her father did And that one article that said they did was silly and bad

And speaking of that terrible Target story, you should read this piece by @colin-fraser.net . medium.com/@colin.frase...

03.09.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThe Algorithm” is the only critique of β€œThe Algorithm” that β€œThe Algorithm” can produce As I say in my TED Talk about Vilem Flusser, the most pressing cultural question is: β€œwhy are things so weird?” Or as Anna Shechtman describes it:

Honestly, I think pushing stories like these does more harm than it does good to society β€” and it runs the errand of the social media platforms. See, for instance, kevinmunger.substack.com/p/the-algori...

03.09.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

😑😑 AI 😑😑

26.08.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, that's also how I did it, but still felt like a can of worms where the slightest adjustments to the errors coming in the conversion process made the formatting go sideways 😭

26.08.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good point, Damian, thanks! And you’re right, definitely worth a try!

26.08.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly! Can't believe I am spending hours on converting something I spent hours making look good into something that does not

26.08.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Converting a fully finished paper from LaTeX to Word is probably the most painful thing I have ever had to do. Is there really not any reeeeeeelatively easy way of doing it?

26.08.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you my friend ❀️

12.07.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tak Sara πŸ₯°πŸ₯°

12.07.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks, Alessandro! 🀠

12.07.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wahuuuu thanks Christina 🀩

12.07.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks, Linda!

12.07.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🀠

12.07.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes! Her: pure.uva.nl/ws/files/238...

09.07.2025 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

😱

09.07.2025 08:48 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œπŸ’ͺGet me ripped in 3 months.” hmmm no thanks Meta AI

01.04.2025 07:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Claes de Vreese on LinkedIn: Big tech has a tremendous impact on our democracies and societies. We… Big tech has a tremendous impact on our democracies and societies. We presented our new report at a public hearing in The Danish Parliament - Folketinget. The…

Big tech has a tremendous impact on democracy

🚨New report out w focus on misinformation, content moderation & generative AI

Team @anjabechmann.bsky.social @adler-nissen.bsky.social @madshovethy.bsky.social @golovchenko.bsky.social @fghjorth.bsky.socialπŸ‘

Details⬇️

www.linkedin.com/posts/claes-...

27.02.2025 10:25 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wahuuuuuuu tillykke til dig og til DDC!

20.02.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging

πŸ“’ Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 1/7 cup.org/4axBEXo

28.01.2025 07:00 β€” πŸ‘ 292    πŸ” 83    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 2

USA er en banarepublik, der ikke lΓ¦ngere overholder international lov. Dets demokrati er i frit fald og vi mΓ₯ forvente, at staten i nogen grad disintegrerer og ikke lΓ¦ngere kan lΓΈfte alle sine opgaver. USA er ikke lΓ¦ngere vores allierede og des fΓΈr det gΓ₯r op for os des bedre.

21.01.2025 06:31 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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See you in Denver at #ICA25!

I’m so happy to finally talk about this large cross-national collaboration we did last year!

I was fortunate to assemble a team of extraordinary people to study the role of ad delivery algorithms in political campaigns by collaborating with 30+ parties across the EU.

15.01.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

A majority of Danes are in favor of the content moderation policy, which Meta now wants to remove.

But there are also areas where most Danes believe that people can decide for themselves, e.g. whether women can share pictures of themselves topless on the beach.

See a sample from our report below:

15.01.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Having compiled the entirety of my dissertation for the first time has quite a surreal feeling to it

13.01.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Meta drops content moderation which users want! β›”

New data show that users (n=2000 Danes) both disagree with some of the announced changes (like referring to religious groups as stupid) *and* dislike some policies being kept.

We need voices from users on this. And especially from non-US users.

13.01.2025 10:08 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3
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But I just wrote a whole section in my dissertation on the backdrop that they want to get rid of politics on Meta, and I have to hand it in in three weeks. Grrrrr

10.01.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Two salient facts about Facebook replacing its fact-checking program with community notes:

(1) community notes are cheaper.
(2) the incoming political regime dislikes fact-checking. So community notes are less trouble.

The rest is just framing. Zuck's sole principle is to do what's best for Zuck.

07.01.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1115    πŸ” 230    πŸ’¬ 66    πŸ“Œ 8

Megafedt, Henrik, det her er *præcis* hvad jeg har manglet!

07.01.2025 08:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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