Camila Mont'Alverne

How do people use generative AI in their daily lives? And how do they use it for news?
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🧵 Key findings in thread

Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher Communication Science at AI, Media & Democracy Lab Do you want to be part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in communication science.

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We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab.

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Teens, Social Media and Mental Health Parents are more worried than teens about teen mental health. Both groups – especially parents – partly blame social media. But teens also see benefits.

48% of US teens say social media sites have a mostly negative effect on people their age, up from 32% in 2022. But fewer teens (14%) think social media sites negatively affect them personally.
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Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.

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This is never ending entertainment

It’s been at least a decade that the Brazilian left isn’t capable of getting so much people in their protests. The combination of Bolsonaro trying to be saved by Trump and the House trying to approve a bill to make sure no MP is punished ever seems to have resurrected lefties' demonstrations

UK’s public sector broadcasters demand more prominence on YouTube to combat misinformation Bosses say independent news needs to be promoted on social platforms that increasing numbers of viewers are turning to

NEW: Broadcasters now in no doubt about the all consuming power of YouTube - they join forces for govt/regulators to step in for fairer revenue and prominence…

YouTube take a big slice of ad revenue.

All a sign of the power YouTube now wields…

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

The study documents that belief in electoral misinformation undermines trust in news. The strategy of disseminating disinformation weakens news organizations’ relationships w/ audiences, and explains why leaders w/ authoritarian aspirations would try to raise public’s suspicions about journalism

The Electoral Misinformation Nexus: How News Consumption, Platform Use, and Trust in News Influence Belief in Electoral Misinformation Abstract. Electoral misinformation, where citizens believe false or misleading claims about the electoral process and electoral institutions—sometimes acti

The reason for this becomes clear when we see results from a @reutersinstitute.bsky.social study during the 2022 Brazilian elections, showing that using news from legacy news media is associated with belief in fewer claims of electoral misinformation over time
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After Bolsonaro's trial last week, I've written about how the disinformation campaign and attacks on journalism were part of a broader strategy to erode democracy in Brazil. English here:

Não é de surpreender que líderes com inclinações autoritárias, então, tentem levantar suspeitas da população em relação a jornalistas e veículos de imprensa, já que eles são peças-chave para fornecer informações mais precisas e desacreditar alegações sem fundamento sobre o processo leitoral.

The Electoral Misinformation Nexus: How News Consumption, Platform Use, and Trust in News Influence Belief in Electoral Misinformation Abstract. Electoral misinformation, where citizens believe false or misleading claims about the electoral process and electoral institutions—sometimes acti

Os resultados de um estudo do @reutersinstitute.bsky.social durante as eleições de 2022 mostram como o jornalismo profissional pode limitar o sucesso de estratégias de desinformação eleitoral e representar um empecilho para aspirações autoritárias. academic.oup.com/poq/article/...

Estudo mostra como a desinformação contribuiu para a tentativa de golpe de estado no Brasil em 2022 Campanhas de desinformação marcaram as eleições presidenciais de 2022, que depois de vencidas pela oposição foram alvo de uma tentativa de golpe, conforme sentenciou esta semana o próprio STF

Após o julgamento do Bolsonaro e cia, escrevi pro @theconversation.com Brasil sobre como a operação de desinformação e o ataque ao jornalismo eram também uma estratégia antidemocrática para subverter a democracia theconversation.com/estudo-mostr...

Bolsonaro Convicted of Attempting a Coup in Brazil, Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted the former president of trying to cling to power after losing the 2022 election, including a plan to assassinate his opponent.

Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to more than 27 years in a Brazil prison for attempting a coup after losing the 2022 election.

Imagine if in 2015 someone said Trump would be destroying the American democracy in a second term while Brazil would be punishing an authoritarian former President for coup attempt

Breaking news: Brazil’s supreme court has voted to convict former president Jair Bolsonaro for plotting a coup d’état, finding that the hard-right populist and Donald Trump ally sought to illegally remain in power after losing a 2022 election. on.ft.com/41NF7hi

Brazil Supreme Court Majority Votes to Convict Bolsonaro for Alleged Coup Attempt Jair Bolsonaro faces life behind bars after Supreme Court majority finds right-wing firebrand guilty of 2022 coup attempt.

Brazil’s Supreme Court reached a majority to convict the right-wing leader Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a coup to overturn the 2022 presidential election.

Most work out there argues that it doesn't pay off for center-right parties to move closer to the far-right.

Using some of the best evidence yet, this paper shows that the same is true for center *left* parties.

Crucial finding as these parties increasingly move in a nativist direction.

Anas al-Sharif: Four Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospital Al Jazeera had condemned a "campaign of incitement" by the IDF against its reporters, but the military claims one of the journalists was part of Hamas.

An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Brazil’s supreme court judge orders house arrest of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro Bolsonaro accused of breaking ‘preventative measures’ imposed amid concerns of avoiding penalty over alleged coup attempt

Brazil’s supreme court judge orders house arrest of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro

Bolsonaro accused of breaking ‘preventative measures’ imposed amid concerns of avoiding penalty over alleged coup attempt

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Many years later, as he faced the hiring board for a non-teaching job, chemistry teacher Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when Meta took his pupils to discover a chatbot

So the UN Global Risks Report is out...
& it lists Mis- and Disinformation as the biggest risk we face.
unglobalriskreport.org

Listen... I'm a mis- and Disinformation kinda guy, meaning I worry about this professionally.
But there is no way this issue should be all the way up there!
Plus...

How Fox News is covering the Trump vs Murdoch blockbuster Maga world’s popular network is caught in middle of war between its owner and the US president

How Fox News is covering the Trump vs Murdoch blockbuster https://on.ft.com/4f5dm9t

JOINT STATEMENT ON GAZA FROM AFP, AP, BBC NEWS AND REUTERS “We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families. For many months, these independent journalists have been the world’s eyes and ears on the ground in Gaza. They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering. “Journalists endure many deprivations and hardships in warzones. We are deeply alarmed that the threat of starvation is now one of them. “We once again urge the Israeli authorities to allow journalists in and out of Gaza. It is essential that adequate food supplies reach the people there.”

BBC NEWS / AFP / BBC NEWS / REUTERS JOINT STATEMENT:

“We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families.

"They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering. "

New research note led by @sachaltay.bsky.social on user corrections

"Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and imprisoned people in our ranks, but none of us remembers seeing a colleague die of hunger."

Trump’s attempt to intervene in Bolsonaro’s judgment isn’t going well for the former President and his allies. Besides the ankle tag for him, Lula’s government had good news in terms of popularity for the first time in the year this week

Plot with the evolution of vote share for CH: 1.3% to 7.28 % to 18.06% to 22.08%

The Portuguese far right party CH has been growing spectacularly, shattering views of the country as immune to this phenomenon.

This has prompted a discussion about where their votes come from.

Some thoughts on this, prompted by newly released survey data:

Future might prove me wrong, but if I had to bet what's the real motivation for Trump's Brazil tariffs blackmail it's the recent big tech regulation. It will be quite curious if he drops the retaliation if the Congress changes the law after the Supreme Court ruling that is making big tech angry

Three overlapping circles with the words project, person, and place inside each of them.

As early-career colleagues start thinking about autumn job applications, I wrote a piece describing my post-PhD path. Reflecting on "project," "person," and "place" with mentors helped me immensely, so I hope this note pays it forward somehow. www.wlallen.com/wp-content/u...