Claes de Vreese

Fearmongering with AI-generated videos, manipulated speeches and Péter Magyar’s Trump moment Until the elections in April, Lakmusz will closely monitor social media and traditional media, with a particular focus on disinformation related to the elections and false or misleading content spread...

New report out on the Hungarian elections 🇭🇺 🗳️

AI generated videos circulating via Facebook and misleading speeches from both candidates.

Important campaign monitoring ⬇️

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Thanks… deleting!!

Paper on statistical power necessary for interaction effects
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Live updates: Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s sweeping tariffs, upending central plank of economic agenda The U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's sweeping global tariffs, handing him a loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda.

Trump Tariffs 👋

The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s far-reaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a significant loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda.

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Here are 90 people across Fox News and Fox Business who cheered Trump’s destructive tariffs On April 2, President Donald Trump announced various tariffs on nearly every country. A week later, he announced what he called a "pause" of some country-specific tariffs, while implementing a univers...

Fox News has at times aired dissenting opinions about Donald Trump’s tariff regime, but the network and its personalities have been overwhelmingly supportive of Tariff Man over the past year. www.mediamatters.org/tariffs-trad...

Live updates: Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s sweeping tariffs, upending central plank of economic agenda The U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's sweeping global tariffs, handing him a loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda.

Trump Tariffs 👋

The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s far-reaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a significant loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda.

apnews.com/live/supreme...

Pressemøde til formiddag om Danmarks totalberedskab | Nyheder | DR Ministeriet for Samfundssikkerhed og Beredskab har indkaldt til pressemøde i dag klokken 11.

Press conference today at 11 in Denmark about the country's new 'total preparedness' plan: how government, authorities, companies, civil society and citizens all have a (renewed) and active role to play in case of emergencies or threats.

www.dr.dk/nyheder/sene...

Call for Proposals: Data Collection for Replication+Novel Political Science Survey Experiments Alexander Coppock and Mary McGrath January 27, 2026 We invite proposals for a survey experiment replication+novel design competition. Se- lected replication+novel design survey experiments will be conducted on large samples of American respondents, quota sampled to match U.S. Census margins and filtered for quality and attention by the survey sample provider Rep Data (repdata.com). Each proposal consists of two parts: (1) a replication study of an existing, previously published survey experiment, and (2) a novel experimental design on a topic of the authors’ choosing. The replication studies and reanalyses of the existing studies will be combined into a meta-paper to be co-authored by all authors of accepted proposals along with the princi- pal investigators (Coppock and McGrath). As a condition for acceptance, authors commit to sharing the data and producing a write-up of the findings from their novel design for submission to a scholarly journal, and public posting of a working paper pre-publication.

🎺 Call for proposals 🎺

1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment
2️⃣ run a novel experiment

on repdata.com

3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies
4️⃣ publish your study

details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_...
applications open Feb 1

please repost!

Warm greetings between Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and King Frederik as he arrives in Nuuk, Greenland 🇩🇰🇬🇱

The headline of Danish news dr.dk 'Political drama between the US, Denmark and Greenland' shows how this topic is anything from gone.

www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

How Has the DSA Performed in Protecting Election Integrity? A look back at three recent national elections offers a sobering picture of the DSA’s effectiveness in safeguarding civic discourse and electoral processes.

Contrary to Trump administration claims that the European Commission is interfering in elections across Europe, the Commission has not yet published any DSA decision related to electoral processes and civic discourse, writes Luise Quaritsch.

The campaign

1️⃣ Stop
2️⃣ Think
3️⃣ Check the source

unravels manipulation and influence campaigns in an easy and accessible manner.

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The newly formed Danish Agency for Societal Security takes a pro-active approach to making society resilient against disinformation and (foreign) influence campaigns:

"Protect yourself and our democracy by being critical about what you see and hear"

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Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push to Advance A.I. Agenda

Meta starting two super PACs

The tech-money-politics nexus is unprecedented.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/t...

Political Trust - RECSM Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology - UPF

Political Trust Network: Call for papers (Barcelona, October 2026)

The young and fast growing academic 'Political Trust Network' organizes yearly workshops, where scholars of trust can meet up, present papers, and exchange ideas. These workshop have been brilliant, socially and professionally!

Come work with me! Two postdoc positions open in @erc.europa.eu project PROTECT, examining how local change shapes public support for protectionist policies in areas like trade and finance. @stockholmuni.bsky.social
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#polisky #academicsky

grr, missing the edit function now... thanks!

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

“This is the party that ran against cancel culture. And now they are trying to control what we watch, what we say, what we read. And this is the most dangerous cancel culture” 🎯

Rep (!) Talarico about Trump.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

New paper this week by V-Dem's director, @silindberg.bsky.social, on the the current wave of autocratization: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Including this important statement: "...it is by my own analysis no question that the USA no longer qualifies as a democracy."

Time to reassess.

At the time of the Brexit vote, I thought that (at the aggregate level) the UK would be a little poorer but a little more sovereign. It’s now clear that the UK is quite a lot poorer, and only marginally more sovereign …

The impact at the individual level is much worse, too

🚨🚨🚨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...

Photo by Unseen Histories on Unsplash. Free unsplash license. https://unsplash.com/fr/photos/une-jeune-femme-afro-americaine-deposant-son-bulletin-dans-lurne-en-1964-_4us-wUwO30?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLink

[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...