Claes de Vreese

🚨🚨🚨The Berlin Court of Appeal ruled today that @democracyreporting.bsky.social (DRI) is entitled to publicly available data from X to conduct research on election interference and disinformation on X in connection with the elections in Hungary 🗳️ 🇭🇺

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America, If You’re Listening: Denmark’s Example for Fixing Liberal Democracy Talking to Michael Bang Peterson on Denmark's recurring process of self-examination.

Today @paulrosenberg.bsky.social argues that Americans should learn from the Danish government's "multi-year “Power and Democracy study” to analyze how Denmark’s democracy is functioning, what challenges it faces, and what can be done to improve it." www.liberalcurrents.com/america-if-y...

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[New paper] Election research in the age of regulated data access under the EU #DSA, By Philipp Darius @hertieschool.bsky.social, Johannes Breuer @cais-research.bsky.social, Simon Kruschinski & Sebastian Stier @gesis.org, Felicia Loecherbach, & Jasmin Riedl policyreview.info/articles/ana...

Irish data watchdog opens probe into X over Grok images The Data Protection Commission has announced that it has opened an inquiry into social media platform X over the use of the AI tool Grok to generate sexualised images of adults and children.

“The DPC said the investigation concerns the apparent creation, and publication on the X platform, of potentially harmful, non-consensual intimate and/or sexualised images containing or otherwise involving the processing of personal data.” www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Nearly half of Europeans would back banning X over EU law breaches A new YouGov survey across Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and Poland shows nearly half of Europeans (47 percent) would back banning social media platform X from the EU if it continues to breach EU rules.

YouGov poll referenced eg here:

www.euronews.com/next/2026/02...

Loosing patience with X 📉

New poll shows 70+% support for taking further actions against X and amongst those supporting action, many consider not only fines but also a ban.

The investigations by the @ec.europa.eu into X are backed and poll corroborates public support for platform regulation.

The DSA and Platform Regulation conference is timely, excellent, and important Get a glimpse even if you cannot be there in person ⬇️

@ramshajahangir.bsky.social @pjleerssen.bsky.social @jvh.bsky.social @natalihelberger.bsky.social @ivir-uva.bsky.social

Upcoming elections in Hungary 🇭🇺 🗳️

“Unstoppable political ads, anti-Ukrainian narratives, and misleading stats in the Hungarian election campaign”

First analysis by Lakmusz #HDMO @edmo-eu.bsky.social

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Also possible ...

Thanks @techpolicypress.bsky.social and @markscott.bsky.social for pushing on these topics!

The EU’s Online Safety Moonshot Is Losing Altitude European policymakers must acknowledge that current birthing pains linked to the Digital Services Act are borne from within the bloc, writes Mark Scott.

On enforcing the DSA:
“Brussels will have to choose either to pull the trigger on potential enforcement actions against some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names or admit that, for now, its digital rulebook must run secondary to the bloc’s wider reliance on the US”

www.techpolicy.press/the-eus-onli...

While the world is going crazy, the (critical) work on the DSA is important as ever.

“The fact that I am a DSA expert does not mean I am a DSA defender”

@hutko.bsky.social opening the DSA and platform governance conference @ivir-uva.bsky.social @uvalawschool.bsky.social @dsaobservatory.bsky.social

Stubb in Munich:
“5 countries are in top ten, whether it's justice, whether it's least corrupt, whether it's open, whether it's welfare,… environment, whether it's open media, gender equality—they are the Nordics. So I don't buy the argument that we're doing bad. I'm actually bloody happy”
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Amsterdam ❄️ ⛄️

Hvordan kommer AI til at påvirke mediebranchen og journalistikken i DK? Et nyt, tværfagligt #dkforsk projekt ledet af prof @claesdevreese.bsky.social udforsker krydsfeltet ml medier, brugere, tillid og demokrati i en AI-tidsalder 👉 bit.ly/4qFHAnF #dmedier #dktech @ddc-sdu.bsky.social @sdu.dk

Denen waren trouwe bondgenoot van de VS, maar dat is verleden tijd: ‘Trump heeft zó veel kapotgemaakt’ Met een nieuwe <a href="https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/navo-begint-met-noordpoolmissie-kremlin-dreigt-met-tegenmaatregelen~a8396ebe4/" target="_blank">Noordpoolmissie van de Navo</a> is de kou rond het ...

Wat is nu het sentiment in Denemarken en Groenland? Waarom is de koers van de VS zo moeilijk te begrijpen?

Ik sprak er met met het AD over in deze ‘long read’ ⬇️ 🇩🇰 🇬🇱

Denen waren trouwe bondgenoot van de VS, maar dat is verleden tijd: ‘Trump heeft zó veel kapotgemaakt’ www.ad.nl/buitenland/d...

The Netherlands February 14, 2021

5 year flashback ⛸️❄️

Rubio's speech in Munich was very different from Vance's speech last year. Emphasising historical connections. With several openings going forward.

But cause for relief or complacency? No.

The underlying message to Europe is "we can do it together, if we do it the Trump-American way"

Anger as US report on EU ‘censorship’ leaves commission, NGOs’ names unredacted The recent US report on 'EU censorship' left dozens of names of civil society and EU officials unredacted in emails – while carefully hiding company employee names.

Important: the Jordan committee report naming specific research /civil society members, because of their work with the @ec.europa.eu, has the risk of causing major chilling effects on this type of work. And on collaborating with the EU.

@alejandrotauber.bsky.social

euobserver.com/202908/anger...

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

So the official White House accounts use Valentine’s Day to continue the intimidation of Greenland. Sick.

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

The state mandating big tech to share user information because of critique of the state…

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Anger as US report on EU ‘censorship’ leaves commission, NGOs’ names unredacted The recent US report on 'EU censorship' left dozens of names of civil society and EU officials unredacted in emails – while carefully hiding company employee names.

Important: the Jordan committee report naming specific research /civil society members, because of their work with the @ec.europa.eu, has the risk of causing major chilling effects on this type of work. And on collaborating with the EU.

@alejandrotauber.bsky.social

euobserver.com/202908/anger...

Deler lige denne igen

#ffdk hvis man kan tillade sig det.

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What the X Fine Reveals About Data Access Under Article 40 of the Digital Services Act Oliver Marsh and LK Seiling unpack the recently published X enforcement decision and what it says about DSA researcher data access rules.

Now that the underlying decision in the European Commission’s €120 million fine against X is in the public domain, Oliver Marsh and LK Seiling examine what it reveals about data access under the Digital Services Act.

I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*)

The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.

Gallup Will No Longer Track Presidential Approval Ratings

Decades of presidential approval polling will be discontinued.

A valuable historical resource comes to an end. At a low point for the existing president’s approval rating.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction Instagram's Adam Mosseri faced questioning about the impact of his platform on minors.

The case is so interesting because it will unpack addiction, addictive design, and vulnerabilities, and, what companies knew internally, and when.

"Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is 'problematic,' not addiction"

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Gallup Will No Longer Track Presidential Approval Ratings

Decades of presidential approval polling will be discontinued.

A valuable historical resource comes to an end. At a low point for the existing president’s approval rating.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

NATO launches Arctic Sentry military effort in seeking to move on from Greenland dispute NATO has launched a new military effort called Arctic Sentry to boost security in the High North

Arctic Centric as a NATO mission important.

But there is no one in Greenland or Denmark who believes this settles the issue or that the crisis has been averted.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...