Andrew Chadwick

Happy to help Matt and NS with trying to get to the bottom of what has been going on here. Have a read of the article, consider the evidence presented in it, and you’ll see.

Keir Starmer's Government Still Hasn't Reviewed Use of Musk's X Despite Platform 'Amplifying Hate Speech and Misinformation' Downing Street continues to refuse to explore communicating through alternative platforms, like Bluesky, despite the role of X in last summer's violent disorder

Keir Starmer's Government Still Hasn't Reviewed Use of Musk's X Despite Platform 'Amplifying Hate Speech and Misinformation'

Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations, potentially exposing sensitive user data Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats—including deeply personal details about mental health, relationships, and trauma—are appearing in Google search results, raising major privacy concerns.

NEW: ChatGPT allows Google to index chats users share using the Share functionality - presumably misinterpreting "make this chat discoverable". The result? Frank admissions about sex lives and drug dependencies. My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo... tip @techmeme.com

Social media giant Meta announced today that it will stop running political, electoral or social issue advertising in the EU from October, instead of complying with the bloc's transparency rules for political advertising.

www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

Thanks, Hannah. Sending best wishes at this difficult time.

It was with overwhelming sadness that I read this morning that Professor Rodney Barker recently died.

He was my PhD supervisor at the LSE and the smartest, wittiest, kindest, and most supportive academic I have known. He changed my life.

A personal note:

www.andrewchadwick.com/blog/2025/7/...

Restoring trust in our democracy: Our strategy for modern and secure elections

A great initiative, a long time coming. I hope the framework that evolves is more holistic and includes digital media literacy and hard thinking about the impact of today's information environment on our new young citizens. That one paragraph (19) is doing heavy lifting!

www.gov.uk/government/p...

I wonder if it’s possible to place a bet that TNT Sports’ coverage next year will be worse than ITV’s?
What are the odds?
I certainly won’t be paying £31.99 a month (£384 annually!!!).

Seems likely it will be worse value because… the price. But maybe they’ll hire some of the current ITV crew. Depends how much they value the unique flavour of the UK tradition of coverage.

Great thread. I've never really cycled other than as a commuter. But I've watched it for at 15-20 years. I even went to Paris for the finish once because it's so immense. Always inspired by the TV coverage. I can't beleieve it won't be on anymore. It's a crime!

Thanks. I know! Depressingly predictable.

Ned Boulting: ‘ITV’s last Tour de France will be a moment of great sadness’ Four decades of free-to-air Tour de France coverage is coming to an end in the UK and Boulting, the voice of ITV’s long-running broadcasts, believes it is a symptom of the decline of road racing in Br...

Of course, as a communication prof, I can’t resist also posting a link to this interview with Boulting—well worth a read for the context of ITV’s decision: www.independent.co.uk/sport/cyclin...

... including funny features and stories from past presenters such as Liggett, @nedboulting.bsky.social, and Gary Imlach

Give it a watch: www.itv.com/watch/tour-d...

It’s the usual excellent editing, commentary, and analysis, plus the perennially witty and intellectually satisfying intro and link narratives from presenter Gary Imlach. But they're also showing carefully selected features from the archives... (5/?)

This is ITV’s last Tour and the last for “free-to-air” UK TV (in scare quotes because that term today really means free to air and free to digital/satellite/cable, plus streaming). It’s poignant watching ITV’s final season of coverage. (4/?)

Back then, when Channel Four launched, it brought proper extended coverage of the Tour—usually every stage—to the mass UK audience. Then ITV bought the rights and continued the excellent coverage. It was so good because it had so many of the same personnel from Channel 4.

(3/?)

Each day we’d return in time to watch the Tour de France on TV. Free to air TV. Channel 4. Phil Liggett! We were kids and had no money to buy the (excellent) cycling magazines. (2/?)

A long, long time ago I was deep into racing cycling. Back then, at this time of year, I’d spend almost every day tearing around the North Yorkshire moors and coast with a small group of similarly mad close mates. I seemed to be quite good at going up hills. Given the terrain, I needed to be. (1/?)

Between traditional journalism and social media, we were supposed to (debatable) end up with a mix of authoritative and democratic platforms for sharing information.

We've ended up with authoritarian, libertarian, superficial information systems, that are at best bonkers, and at worst dangerous 👇

A great album. Especially in the summertime. With a beverage.

A researcher says 245 extensions on nearly 1M devices are overriding security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites for a paid service (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

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Sunflower (Milt Jackson album) - Wikipedia

Not so fast 😀 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflow...

It must be great to be one of those academics that continually says there’s nothing to see here, it’s all exaggerated, it’s hype, nothing’s wrong, you’ve all got it wrong, everything’s fine, you’re looking at the wrong evidence etc etc.

Retconning 'Russiagate' article by me. Subhed: The CIA director encourages the rewriting of history

🧵In 2018 the Senate Intelligence Committee asked me to field a team and analyze a data set that social media platforms had turned over: several hundred gigs of data chronicling a multi-year effort to divide American society *and* interfere in an American election
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/retc...

How We Can All Respond to Misinformation academic.oup.com/book/60489 by @leticiabode.bsky.social @ekvraga.bsky.social

Needed: "...correcting publicly to build social norms around responding to misinformation."

Platforms must "promote corrections & take action against toxic behaviors."

This was a logical development for the ideological platform mogul. Embedding biased and prejudiced AI, which was allegedly deliberately trained that way, or at the very least was negligently non-guardrailed, is the logical next phase in the decline of the general, "neutral" platform.

OK, as series editor, I'm biased, but in my view this book is an instant classic.

Available from OUP and all good book stores, in multiple formats. (3/3)

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Now they’ve written a wonderful book with a highly original and powerful argument backed up by serious empirics.

They don't fall into the trap of just re-describing the problem of online misinformation. Instead, they *diagnose* it, and offer evidence-based solutions. (2/3)

Photo by Andrew Chadwick of Leticia Bode and Emily K. Vraga's new book Observed Correction, published July 2025 in the Oxford Studies in Digital Politics series from OUP USA.

Now published!

@leticiabode.bsky.social and @ekvraga.bsky.social's exciting new book, Observed Correction: How We Can All Respond to Misinformation on Social Media.

Leticia and Emily are trailblazing pioneers in the research about online misinformation. (1/3)

Forgot I'd written this. Funny it has resurfaced today, because I'm speaking about this tomorrow at QMiP!