André Rodarte

@lenafrescamente.bsky.social and @andre-k-rodarte.bsky.social presenting research on multi level misinfo and the state of the art of research on it!

Happy to share the material we made, all “open source science”! 😜

The speaker, a young women, stands in front of the screen, with pictures from Teheran, Vienna, and Denmark 🇩🇰

Absolutely fascinating talk by Maryam Khaleghipour - including with rich insights into how to study communication in Iran - and her very cool research on the targets of online attacks

✨NEW DDC TEAM MEMBER✨
Last week, André Rodarte began his new position as postdoctoral researcher here with us at the Digital Democracy Centre.
We are thrilled to have him with us. 😊
Velkommen til Odense og SDU, @andre-k-rodarte.bsky.social!

I had a great time presenting our project about Ephemerality and strategic message deletion of extremist messages on Telegram channels at #dgpuk2025, together with @gongbaobao.bsky.social. It was the first time & we got great feedback.

On the fly: How Japanese social media “watchers” improvise to counter problematic information - Kayo Mimizuka, André K Rodarte, Ahmer Arif, 2024 Recent studies have explored how the purveyors of problematic information can mobilize online crowds by tapping into positive feelings like amusement, belonging...

[New pub from New Media & Society] Excited to share my recent paper here as I just joined this platform! "On the Fly: How Japanese Social Media 'Watchers' Improvise to Counter Misinformation," co-authored w/ Ahmer Arif & @andre-k-rodarte.bsky.social
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How did they bring this ‘conservative gentleman into life’?

Instagram suggested that I started a chat with “TruthAI”, an AI by “MAGA fan page”. It ended up being an insightful chat for sure

Strange times to be a media researcher in the US. The list of "prohibited technologies on state-owned equipment" just keeps getting longer...

Looking forward to it! Thank you for this opportunity

Exciting news!

Looking forward to it!

The impact of academic research is not always immediate or easy to measure, especially beyond its theoretical contributions, as it can take years to materialize. After 12 years of research & partnerships in the Territory of Good, I received yet another piece of news that filled my heart with joy:

Between Russia and Elon Musk, German Voters Face a ‘Dual Front’ of Disinformation In the first major European vote since President Trump’s re-election, influence campaigns are targeting Germany from two sides.

A German election fought between Kremlin bots, AI, and Musk/ X.

In understanding #disinformation campaigns it is important to not only focus on voting decisions.

It is as much about delegitimizing the election and fueling polarization.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy.

Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

⏰Xmas came early this year!🎄 My final dissertation paper officially out in @polcommjournal.bsky.social!

We test the role of algorithms in shaping the cost of reaching voters. We find: who sees political ads & at what price depends NOT just on targeting choices.🧵
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I am incredibly thankful for Dr. Gina Masullo, @favstats.eu, Torie Hyunsik Kim, and Kaiya Soorholtz for their feedback and suggestions

We also show that poor regions of the country lacked local candidates. Although Brazilian candidates are allowed to campaign across their state of origin, they mostly focused on rich, populous cities, leading to the formation of what we called “regions of representative scarcity”

We show that minority candidates who lacked campaign resources received lower engagement on social media —or in some cases, didn’t campaign on these platforms at all. These findings point to social media reproducing, rather than subverting, existing forms of exclusion in Brazil.

Does Social Media Level the Political Field or Reinforce Existing Inequalities? Cartographies of the 2022 Brazilian Election If representation furnishes the stage where political struggles play out, this stage can be alarmingly small. In this study, we examine whether social media campaigns in the 2022 Brazil elections a...

🚨 Thrilled to share that the paper I co-authored with
@jolukito.bsky.social, "Does Social Media Level the Political Field or Reinforce Existing Inequalities?", has been published in @polcommjournal.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks Stef Pukallus for editing our chapter. You can read more here:

The chapter explores how peace communication was subverted in the ascension of this totalitarian project, creating the conditions for the invasion of the capital on January 8th.

Theoretically, we discuss computational propaganda in light of Claude Lefort's political thinking

Bringing conflict back in | 15 | Computational propaganda and totalita This chapter explores how peace communication was subverted in the ascension of a far-right totalitarian project in Brazil, creating the conditions for the

During Bolsonaro’s last months in power, reports emerged of alleged plots for a coup d'etat, including plans to assassinate political rivals.

To understand how propaganda paved the way for the rise of the far-right in Brazil, Sam Woolley and I wrote:

www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Para onde vai o Brasil?

1/6. Há quase uma década, o Brasil passa por um realinhamento das forças políticas. Nesse período, tivemos as manifestações de 2013, o impeachment de Dilma, a eleição de Bolsonaro e o retorno de Lula. A energia política desses eventos se disseminou e chegou aos municípios. +