Nicolas Schwendemann

Zack Polanski is the man

Phishing attack: Numerous journalists targeted in attack via Signal Messenger In a phishing attack, unknown actors are apparently attempting to gain access to accounts of journalists and activists on the Signal messaging service. We explain how the attack works and how you can ...

In a phishing attack, unknown actors are apparently attempting to gain access to accounts of journalists and activists on the Signal messaging service. We explain how the attack works and how you can protect yourself against it. netzpolitik.org/2026/phishin...

Context is everything.

Still totally up for this :-)

Deutsche Werbetreibende hier lang bitte.

Wer dabei sein will, gerne eine DM schreiben, ein paar Plätze sind noch frei.

2026 wird ein spannendes Wahljahr -
Ich freue mich deswegen sehr auf unser Side-Event zum Political Tech Summit mit Lisa Treilling und Annkathrin Schaefer.

Wir sprechen über „State of Tech“ Mobilisierung, Technologie und warum Tools allein keine Lösung sind.

23. Januar, 19:30 Uhr, Heeresbäckerei

A registered report megastudy on the persuasiveness of the most-cited climate messages - Nature Climate Change How to effectively communicate climate change to the public has long been studied and debated. Through a registered report megastudy, researchers tested the ten most-cited climate change messaging str...

So little was known 18 years ago when I started researching climate comms. I'm blown away by how much we now know. This study, led by the incomparable Jan Voelkel with his all-star band, and released today in @natclimate.nature.com confirms that many distinct message strategies can work...

Regulating influencer marketing in the European Union Influencer marketing has become a significant part of the digital economy. Influencers allow brands to reach highly targeted audiences, and their endorsements are often perceived as more authentic tha...

🛍️ Influencer marketing is key in online advertising.

The European Commission wants to address misleading influencer marketing practices in the forthcoming digital fairness act.

Both Parliament and Council will shape the legislation.

Read ⤵️

@imco.europarl.europa.eu @annacavazzini.bsky.social

Nicht nur Mutmaßung, is so. :-)

Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse. Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

EU slaps €120M fine on Elon Musk’s X, straining ties with US US vice president says EU should not be ‘attacking American companies over garbage.’

Geht doch.

www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

The radical right *is* rising across much of Europe. But the narrative that young people are leading the charge is overblown.

Gen Z is turning away from mainstream parties, but often the beneficiaries are left-insurgents like England's Greens, France's LFI, or Germany's Linke.

Union verliert ihren moralischen Kompass & merkt's nicht mal. Während Wadephul in Syrien von katastrophalen Zuständen berichtet & die Rückführungspläne der Regierung infrage stellt, widerspricht Mayer (CSU) & fordert Abschiebungen. Das ist aus dem Sessel heraus leicht gesagt!
@britta-hasselmann.de

Important November Dates

2 Book Lovers Day
3 Sandwich Day
3 Cliché Day
5 Bonfire Night
6 Nachos Day
11 Origami Day
13 Kindness Day
14 Pickle Day
16 Party With A Bear
16 Fast Food Day
19 Toilet Day
26 Cake Day
30 Stay Home Day

Bold Politics nennt der neue Vorsitzende der UK-Grünen @zackpolanski.bsky.social sein Angebot.

Ergebnis: Mitglieder in wenigen Monaten verdoppelt und jetzt bei 140.000.

Der Weg: Klare Haltung, klare Botschaften, gute Laune.

Bold Politics nennt der neue Vorsitzende der UK-Grünen @zackpolanski.bsky.social sein Angebot.

Ergebnis: Mitglieder in wenigen Monaten verdoppelt und jetzt bei 140.000.

Der Weg: Klare Haltung, klare Botschaften, gute Laune.

Poll was paid by NIUS btw

Thats right, but AfD is nearly always polling stronger there, especially during or at the beginning of campaigns, while SPD and Greens are polling weaker. Found this quite interesting.

Google email shows it ruled Israel’s ads claiming ‘There is food in Gaza’ aren’t misleading An internal Google email said it received many complaints about Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled they could remain online.

For years, Google defined "political ads" so narrowly as to be almost useless. The least they could do was make ads clearly designed to persuade people of a political view maximally transparent and accountable. They never did. A complete failure on their part.
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In Moldova, in the week to the 25th Sept (the latest we have data for), the pro-EU PAS party and civil society organisations together bought nearly 50% of political advertising on Meta. The pro-Russian Patriotic Bloc bought just under 2% of the total.

Mediale Kampagne gegen Juristin: Wie aus Diffamierung eine Debatte wird • Der Fall Brosius-Gersdorf zeigt, wie wenig alternative Medien tun müssen, um öffentlichkeitswirksam zu werden und wie ihnen etablierte Medien dabei helfen.

Die mediale Kampagne gegen Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf zeigt vor allem eines: Wie wenig alternative Medien tun müssen, um öffentlichkeitswirksam zu werden – und wie sehr sie sich dabei auf etablierte Medien verlassen können. Eine Chronologie:

kobuk.at/2025/07/med...

Meta: RT- und Sputnik-Seiten blieben trotz EU-Sanktionen „Partner“ von Facebook Propaganda und Desinformation, dafür sind die russischen Staatssender bekannt, deshalb hat die EU sie mit Sanktionen belegt. Hat Meta sie dennoch an Werbeeinnahmen beteiligt?

Bitterer Verdacht: Meta könnte Putins sanktionierte russischen Staatssender als „Partner-Publisher“ an Werbeeinnahmen beteiligt haben.

Unsere europäische Regeln müssen endlich auch für BigTech gelten.

Venetians know something about oligarchy.

Bericht der Sachverständigen Beraterin Dr. Margaretha Sudhof "Maskenbericht" Januar 2025

Wir veröffentlichen den Maskenbericht (ohne Paywall 🤓) !
Seit Monaten hält das Gesundheitsministerium den sog. Sudhof-Bericht zu Jens Spahn und den Coronamasken-Bestellungen geheim.
Wir veröffentlichen, was keine Verschlusssache sein soll!
Hier geht's zum Bericht: fragdenstaat.de/dokumente/27...

What I Wish I’d Known Before Launching My Newsletter | Inbox Collective ”Keep things simple.“ ”Launch as soon as you can.” And a few dozen other pieces of advice from veteran newsletter operators.

Danke für deine Arbeit! Guck mal bei Dan Oshinsky, er hat sehr viele sehr gute Hinweise. Hat mir geholfen. Zum Beispiel hier:
inboxcollective.com/what-i-wish-...

It’s President Trump Again, This Time in Full Frame

AI Slop is now infiltrating all aesthetic manifestations of contemporary US fascism: «Regardless of the actual techniques used to produce it, the photograph displays numerous hallmarks of A.I. imagery: symmetrical composition, imprecise detail, blurring at the edges, and shallow depth of field.»

“We’re the providers of information…but Google now wants to be the distributor” A new 84-page report from Peter D. Brown and Klaudia Jaźwińska, researchers at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, sketches out the state of play between big tech platforms a...

We at the Tow Center have a major report out on AI in the newsroom - (absent any funding influence from the providers or users of the technology). ‘Journalism Zero’ is not too much of a stretch from the abstraction created by LLMs
summary from @niemanlab.org
www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/were...