My latest research on LLM grooming, co-authored with @ninajankowicz.com and @garymarcus.bsky.social, found that OpenAI's so-called "reasoning" o3 model cited Pravda network content 26.8% of the time in response to specific prompts.
This research got cited today in a column by the Financial Times:
18.07.2025 16:56 — 👍 111 🔁 53 💬 3 📌 7
Stunning details now emerging: this was an operation planned a year and a half in advance, involved smuggling drones into Russia, placing them in containers on top of trucks, arranging for them all to open simultaneously and to strike.
01.06.2025 14:16 — 👍 5036 🔁 1271 💬 164 📌 113
You don‘t have the cards
Yes, but I do have the drones
01.06.2025 13:01 — 👍 1192 🔁 128 💬 27 📌 6
(S+) Matthias Helferich: E-Mails über Rassenlehre und Gewaltfantasien belasten AfD-Abgeordneten
Matthias Helferich nannte sich einst das »freundliche Gesicht des NS«, heute sitzt er für die AfD im Bundestag. SPIEGEL-Recherchen legen nahe, dass er noch extremer tickt als bislang bekannt.
»Advent, Advent, ein Asylantenheim brennt« und »Du jüdischer Langfinger«
Matthias Helferich nannte sich einst das »freundliche Gesicht des NS«, heute sitzt er für die AfD im Bundestag. SPIEGEL-Recherchen legen nahe, dass er noch extremer tickt als bislang bekannt.
mit @mb-journalist.bsky.social
23.05.2025 13:11 — 👍 1095 🔁 386 💬 54 📌 16
In ihren Jubelmeldungen will die AfD aktuell den Eindruck erzeugen, der Verfassungsschutz habe seine Bewertung der AfD inhaltlich revidiert. Das ist falsch. Er setzt die Hochstufung vorläufig aus. Tat er schon nach der Klage zum Verdachtsfall, gewann dann vor 2 Gerichten gegen die AfD
08.05.2025 11:01 — 👍 119 🔁 39 💬 2 📌 1
🧵 THREAD: Can a short online intervention help defend democracy against partisan polarization?
In our new study - just published in the @bjpols.bsky.social - my colleagues and I tested this question across 33 countries 🌍 with over 41,000 participants 🧑🤝🧑.
Here’s what we found 👇
24.04.2025 11:17 — 👍 170 🔁 69 💬 11 📌 8
Rechtsextremistische Straftaten haben an Schulen (teils sprunghaft) zugenommen. Quelle: @zeit.de
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Autoritäre Strategien im Netz
Der Report "Autoritäre Strategien im Netz: Analyse und Monitoring digitaler Risiken rund um die Bundestagswahl 2025" beschäftigt sich mit antidemokratischer Einflussnahme rund um die Wahl im Februar 2...
Neuer CeMAS-Report: Die vorgezogene Bundestagswahl 2025 geriet ins Visier verschiedener in- und ausländischer autoritärer Kräfte. Eine Zusammenfassung der Erkenntnisse zu russischen Desinformationskampagnen und der Aktivitäten verschwörungsideologischer und rechtsextremer Akteur:innen:
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Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes
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Tweet von Joseph Allen:
Now economists know how scientists felt when he said “inject bleach”
♥️
03.04.2025 15:11 — 👍 1592 🔁 326 💬 7 📌 15
All you need to know about Twitter
23.03.2025 19:07 — 👍 59000 🔁 13261 💬 3105 📌 1212
I wanted to highlight key findings from our study and the replication, and how they extend to 2024.
Now it provides a systematic review of more than 600 scientific studies on the relationship between digitalization and democracy.
So what does science have to say? We actually know quite a bit: 1/5
08.03.2025 16:01 — 👍 51 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 1
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
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Exclusive | A New Spy Unit Is Leading Russia’s Shadow War Against the West
The Department of Special Tasks has brought together veterans of the Kremlin’s most daring clandestine operations to carry out assassination attempts and sabotage overseas.
»Eine neue #Spionageeinheit führt #Russlands #Schattenkrieg gegen den Westen«
»Zu den Operationen der #Moskauer Abteilung für Sonderaufgaben gehören #Mordversuche, #Sabotage und ein Plan zur Anbringung von #Brandsätzen in Flugzeugen«
#cuibono
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
16.02.2025 09:50 — 👍 18 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 6
Support for democracy in the US public has fallen so much that we're now closer to Turkey's levels than Germany's. Let that, ahem, sink in.
leedrutman.substack.com/p/how-did-am...
27.01.2025 19:34 — 👍 31 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0
Interesting findings! In line with @danwphilosophy.bsky.social's excellent work on the marketplace of rationalizations - conspiracy theories might work to rationalize antidemocratic attitudes that are already there, and that's why people adopt them.
23.01.2025 17:23 — 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
More Britons would rather have the EU than the US as Britain's closest trading partner
The EU: 53% (+2 from 2 Mar 2020)
The US: 21% (+4)
Neither: 7% (-3)
yougov.co.uk/topics/inter...
21.01.2025 16:11 — 👍 449 🔁 195 💬 24 📌 37
Call log showing multiple calls from the dept of justice
Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.
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20.01.2025 20:45 — 👍 861 🔁 130 💬 52 📌 6
Ketamine is a hell of a drug.
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Deutschland auf der Flucht vor der Wirklichkeit - rheingold Marktforschung
Flucht vor der Wirklichkeit: Zwei Drittel der deutschen Bevölkerung misstrauen der Regierung und ihrer Politik. Zuversicht eher im Privaten.
“59% of Germans feel overwhelmed by the crises of the present. And 68% are more withdrawn and like to have their peace and quiet. Only 39% say that they still keep up to date with world events, while 31% feel that concentrating on their own lives is more important than politics and the news.”
20.01.2025 08:39 — 👍 258 🔁 75 💬 23 📌 18
Influence by Design: How Meta Accepted Russian Propaganda Payments Despite Sanctions - CheckFirst
Check First, in partnership with Reset.tech and AI Forensics, unveils the extent to which Kremlin-linked entity SDA have exploited Meta platforms to disseminate propaganda.
Despite international sanctions, #Meta is accepting payments from Russian propagandists. Our latest report with @aiforensics.org & Reset underscore how Meta has failed to moderate over 8,000 political ads from the Kremlin-linked Social Design Agency (SDA). #SDALeak
17.01.2025 14:31 — 👍 58 🔁 44 💬 1 📌 11
Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵
In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.
We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.
with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...
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Rechtsextreme „Identitäre Bewegung“ darf nicht an Bundestagswahl teilnehmen
Die rechtsextremen Aktivisten der „Identitären Bewegung“ dürfen nicht als Partei an der kommenden Bundestagswahl teilnehmen. Das entschied der Bundeswahlausschuss am Montag.
Die rechtsextreme Identitäre Bewegung, die wohl aus Gründen der Verbotssicherheit nun als Partei agiert, darf nicht zur Bundestagswahl antreten - aus Formfehlern. Das hat heute der Bundeswahlausschuss entschieden:
13.01.2025 14:24 — 👍 98 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 1
The share of US adults who thought platforms should police false content went *up* between 2018 and 2023, not down. So much for Zuck's "culture shift" www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
11.01.2025 20:36 — 👍 179 🔁 59 💬 9 📌 3
Kritisch, analytisch, investigativ. Politisches Magazin im öffentlich-rechtlichen Auftrag. Seit 1968. Aus Berlin. Vom #rbb für Das Erste.
Author • Far-Right & Islamism, Jewish-Life & Antisemitism • 1. FC Köln supporter • Football & Politics • Views are my own
Sociologist. Professor @ University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg.
Professor of Politics, University of Glasgow | DEMED project @ERC_Research | Fellow of the @acadsocsciences.bsky.social | Main interest: Democracy and Autocracy, Public Opinion, Civic Education, Higher Ed. #FirstGen
Historian @crexuio.bluesky.social University of Oslo. Interested in the far right, fascism & terrorism. I co-edit Routledge’s Fascism & the Far Right book series: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Fascism-and-the-Far-Right/book-series/FFR
Freier Journalist. Email: thilo-manemann@posteo.de - PGP: http://bit.ly/3g7bzDm
Bei @cemas.io: u.a. Rechtsterrorismus | far-right terrorism
journalist based in Tirana, covering the Balkans, foreign affairs www.profil.at and book author
Neue Podcast Serie: Land ohne TikTok (Ö1 / ORF)
Torial 🔗 https://www.torial.com/franziska.tschinderle
Mail: tschinderle.franziska@profil.at
Author. Mom. Defender of democracy. http://linktr.ee/marytrump
Communication researcher with a focus on media uses and effects in algorithmically curated environments | Full Prof @ LMU Munich | She/her | https://anna-kuempel.de/
Philosopher @ UC Santa Cruz (soon to be at U Lisboa). Interested in belief, evidence-resistance, social identities, ideology, ignorance, delusions. || Languages: EN, PT, ES || www.carolinaflores.org for papers
researcher @cemas.io | investigations into the far right in Germany
Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
We pioneered algorithm analysis and deploy expert skills to probe the digital space and its actors.
https://checkfirst.network
Prof. of Digital Communication & Datafication
@unifr.bsky.social and FHGR. Director of the IDCMI (https://www.unifr.ch/idcmi/). Digital journalism, media innovation, political communication, AI & algorithms. Feminist. She/her
Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Infoportal über die extreme Rechte und antidemokratische Strömungen.
👉 http://www.endstation-rechts.de
Professor of Economics London Business School
Vice President CEPR
President European Economic Association. Views are my own.