@ulrikeklinger.bsky.social
Professor of Political Communication and Journalism at the University of Amsterdam, ASCoR, Associated Researcher at Weizenbaum Institute Berlin. Technology & Democracy. Foodie. Traveller. Views are my own.
„At a time when the majority of Americans distrust big tech and believe artificial intelligence will harm society, Silicon Valley has built its own network of alternative media where CEOs, founders and investors are the unchallenged and beloved stars.“
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
🚨🎉New Publication Friday 🎉🚨
Campaigning in the Age of Platforms: A Longitudinal Analysis of German Parties & Politicians
w/ @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social & @andersoloflarsson.bsky.social
Out now in Political Communication.
#polisky #commsky
doi.org/10.1080/1058...
🎉 The PolComm Database Dashboard is live!
The database content is now available in an interactive dashboard: a milestone since launching submissions at #ICA25 in Denver.
Explore this resource here
👉 politicalcommunication.org/resources/
Conferencing at the Museum of Literature Ireland, @molimuseum.bsky.social
04.11.2025 13:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What if people appreciate having an abundance of content and communication, more than they feel overloaded by it?
@annisch.bsky.social et al decided to have a look. Their results? "We found that appreciation for abundance was about twice as common as overload".
Paper: journalqd.org/article/view...
Excitement, tension, bingo and great insights from my fellow PolComm colleagues - think that describes our election event in CREA quite well. Great way to count down to the exitpolls! @markboukes.bsky.social @favstats.eu @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lindabomm.bsky.social @corinnaoschatz.bsky.social
30.10.2025 10:14 — 👍 20 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 2This is the final 'poll of polls' before the Dutch elections. Three parties at the same level, and two more not much smaller. Given the high percentage of late deciders and voters in doubt, the outcome is still very much uncertain. 🧵
28.10.2025 18:41 — 👍 76 🔁 34 💬 3 📌 1I think this Facebook page is a terrifying case study in how gen AI slop has enabled the creation of an automated hate machine, churning out endless caricatures of made-up enemies, immigrants and politicians, optimized for engagement. In many ways, it embodied the very nightmare many of us feared.
27.10.2025 07:59 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Cas Mudde: „despite the far right’s evident failure in governing the Netherlands, it retains a magnetic hold over the country. Party politics remains fragmented yet dominated by the mainstreaming and normalisation of far-right frames and politicians.“
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Facebook page behind these images was the most active spreader of political AI content, posting multiple times a day and becoming the most engaged-with pages on Facebook among all those we track. Even surpassing Geert Wilders in total engagement during October. The page has now been deleted.
27.10.2025 07:32 — 👍 35 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 7
Two members of Parliament of Wilders' PVV party created AI generated images of party leader Timmermans and circulated these on social media.
Threats, death wishes and intimidation followed.
This shows how AI content can amplify existing rhetoric and emotions.
www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/twe...
Campaigning in the Netherlands: No posters, only this on central squares… 🧐
25.10.2025 12:57 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🤖 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐀𝐈𝐠𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 🇳🇱
Less than one week before the Dutch elections, @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social & I looked at over 20k posts to reveal patterns in the usage of AI-generated visuals across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X. #tk2025
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Work!! 🚨
We are looking for a #postdoc in our AI, media and Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social
Dynamic position, great team, nice colleagues 💥
Profile: communication/ poli sci/ computational social sci
🗓️ DL November 1
Spread the word 📣
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
“Political communication by mainstream parties plays a central role in the electoral success of the far right”
How much more research do journalisten, politicians, pundits and strategists need before they finally change course?
I wrote this 1.5 year ago. No illusion that decision makers in Dutch or U.S. media will read it, let alone learn the lessons
Many individual journalists know and sometimes do better, but are overruled by editors or fear unemployment.
What can YOU do? Support liberal democratic media!
If you ever wanted to delve into the AI-generated world of far-right imagination.. now you can.
See our CampAIgn Tracker 🇳🇱 here:
www.campaigntracker.nl/en/
#tk2025
🚀 And this marks our launch of the CampAIgn Tracker 🇳🇱!
@meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social and I are glad to finally publish our dashboard where we monitor the use of AI imagery in campaign messages, by parties, politicians & other actors during the election #tk2025
See here
www.campaigntracker.nl/en/
Check out TildeOpen LLM: Europe’s Sovereign Multilingual AI
An open-source, foundational LLM (Large Language Model) for European languages – secure, adaptable, and ready for governments, institutions, and enterprises.
tilde.ai/tildeopen-llm/
Breaking: Dutch court rules that Meta needs to offer chronological/ non algorithmic feed as clear and stable option (to Dutch users).
Changes must be implemented in two weeks. 100,000 euro fine per day if non compliant.
Case brought fwd by @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social
nos.nl/l/2584891
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02.10.2025 06:03 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Together, political predators and digital conquistadors have decided to wipe out the old elites and their rules. If they succeed, it will not only be the parties of lawyers and technocrats that will be swept away, but also liberal democracy as we have known it until today ↘️ on.ft.com/4nVwSII
27.09.2025 06:00 — 👍 72 🔁 32 💬 3 📌 1
Wanna know more about #data #access and the Digital Services Act? Here’s our latest policy paper about how it works👇
www.weizenbaum-library.de/items/86842c...
#commsky #polisky #dsa @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Key take-aways and a little bit of optimism from the @rebekahtromble.bsky.social keynote at the #Data #Access Days: collaborate, joint access requests, use DSA 40.4 as a route into 40.12. Solidarity & strategy are key, the academic community must come together and get it together. 🔥
25.09.2025 09:48 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“Article 40 won’t save us”: A full house for brilliant @rebekahtromble.bsky.social giving keynote at the Data Access Days in Berlin @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social 🚀💪🔥
#data #dataaccess #commsky #polisky
Cover: LK Seiling, Clara Iglesias Keller, Jakob Ohme, Ulrike Klinger, Claes de Vreese. Data Access for Researchers under the Digital Services Act: From Policy to Practice. Weizenbaum Policy Paper 15, September 2025.
Out now: Our latest Policy Paper dives into the key provisions of the Digital Services Act #DSA on data access, highlighting its goals, procedures, limits, & external factors impacting implementation: 🔗 doi.org/10.34669/WI....
22.09.2025 13:02 — 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 3
Mit dem Digital Services Act versucht die EU ihre Bürger*innen vor den Risiken digitaler Plattformen zu schützen. Wir sprachen mit LK Seiling, Co-Autor unseres neusten Policy Papers, wie das inmitten geopolitischer Spannungen mit den USA funktionieren kann. #DSA40
Zum Interview 👉 buff.ly/5zISV6z
🎓 This Friday (19.09), we are honored to welcome professor @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social to the #HotPoliticsLab! She will present her work on Facebook user reactions to party campaigning.
📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22)
💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...
Discussing #AI and #democracy at the German Foreign Office‘s Open House, with Andreas Nitsche, Siyuan He and Thomas Mann House Los Angeles. 🤖@germany.diplo.de
24.08.2025 06:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
