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Andrew Chadwick

@andrewchadwick.com

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Prof, Media and Communication, Loughborough University. Ed. Oxford Studies in Digital Politics. Been dubbed “that hybrid media guy.” Here after a 4-year break from social media. Also now active on LinkedIn.

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Andrew Chadwick is a British political communication researcher. His work focuses on the fields of political communication, including mobilisation, news and journalism, political engagement, and deception and misinformation. He is Professor of Political Communication at Loughborough University, where he is also director of the Online Civic Culture Centre (O3C). His latest book The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power was released in 2013 and in a second edition in 2017. .. more

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · Oct 1

My PhD supervisor, Professor Rodney Barker, who had a long and distinguished career at LSE, died recently. Last week I wrote an article for @timeshighered.bsky.social reflecting on the transformational influence of his mentoring style. It's out today www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/good...

Good mentoring can break down class barriers – and I should know

An open approach to knowledge and a kind, enabling manner help students go their own way but never feel alone, says Andrew Chadwick

www.timeshighereducation.com

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 2h

14/ Summary article on Cristian's blog: cristianvaccari.com/2023/01/10/n...

Summary article on my blog: www.andrewchadwick.com/blog/2022/12...

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 2h

13/ It has important implications. Do we really want radically weakened public service media organizations?

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12/ We call this the “campaign disinformation divide”—between getting news from professional journalistic organizations and news from social media.

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 2h

11/ Use of tabloid news, on its own and not as part of a broader diet of professional news, was linked with being worse at recognising disinformation.

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 2h

10/ False news, once perceived as accurate, was more likely to be shared than true news. To explore our results further, we did a number of additional tests where we isolated individual sources rather than combine them together.

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 2h

9/ These differences also shaped the intention to share true versus false news.

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 2h

8/ Conversely, the more that respondents used social media for campaign news, the less they were able to distinguish true from false information.

Reposted by Giovanna Mascheroni

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 2h

7/ The key findings: the more that respondents received their political campaign news via professional news organizations, the more they were able to distinguish true from false information.

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 2h

6/ We used two surveys of samples mirroring the adult population (total 4,018).

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 2h

5/ We also wanted to examine whether there were any connections between discerning true and false news and sharing those types of news on social media.

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 2h

4/ We were interested in testing whether the different kinds of news diets people in the UK consume might differentially equip them to discern between true and false news.

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 2h

3/ Cristian Vaccari, Johannes Kaiser, and I (fairly) recently published a study in the journal Political Communication.

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 2h

2/ Here's one bit of evidence.

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 2h

Much will be said about the British Broadcasting Corporation over the coming days and weeks. But let’s consider for a moment the broader role it and similar public service media organizations play in the increasingly dysfunctional media systems we see around the world.

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 1d

I spoke to Christian Saathoff of ARD's Tagesschau for his feature report about the online disinformation and misinformation swirling around the issue of immigration and asylum in the UK.

www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder...

Großbritannien: Falschbehauptungen befeuern Proteste gegen Asylpolitik

In Großbritannien wird die Debatte über die Unterbringung Geflüchteter durch Falschinformationen befeuert. Klar ist, dass die Kosten für die Unterbringung massiv steigen werden. Von Christian Saathoff...

www.tagesschau.de

Reposted by Will Jennings, Brian Keegan, Andrew Chadwick

Piotr Marczyński @piotrmarczynski.bsky.social · 5d

Excited to share that, with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social , we’ve published a new article in New Media & Society!
We examine how far-right actors on X (formerly Twitter) instrumentalize wellness culture to spread reactionary ideology.
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The wellness pipeline: Tracing far-right health narratives on X - Piotr Marczyński, Catherine Tebaldi, 2025

This article examines how far-right groups advance political agendas through digital platforms, specifically by embedding reactionary ideology within health and...

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 18d

... we're heading to another one of those all-too-familiar moments when we collectively reflect on how we were once promised a shiny future that didn't transpire.

And that's putting aside for a moment the environmental costs, which could be considerable.

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 18d

I have to say... I hope that so-called "AI-powered" browsers really do develop into something genuinely agentic and therefore useful for everyday work and leisure. But having watched the OpenAI Atlas demo video, it's starting to feel like...

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 24d

The latest illustration of a key point often forgotten by the platforms: experiences of AI will never be universal or monolithic and will always be shaped by social inequalities and preexisting vulnerabilities of many different kinds www.wsj.com/tech/ai/teen...

Teen Sues Maker of Fake-Nude Software

There is a growing concern over AI sites that generate fabricated naked photos of minors and nonconsenting adults.

Reposted by Andrew Chadwick

Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 26d

Really important read. Shame is a powerful social emotion—it is the negative feeling one has upon perceiving that others will think poorly of them for failing to adhere to a norm.

newrepublic.com/article/2015...

A paragraph from the essay about how “you cannot shame people who no longer recognize norms”

Reposted by Andrew Chadwick

Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social · 26d

I am very honoured to be awarded the Simon Fraser University's Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy

On behalf of all of my colleagues @citizenlab.ca and our partners around the world thank you for this recognition of our work

youtu.be/41wkXFyEsP8?...

2025 SFU Sterling Prize recipient Ronald J. Deibert protects privacy in the age of cyber espionage

YouTube video by Simon Fraser University

Reposted by Andrew Chadwick

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · Oct 7

NEW:

Last month Trump and RFK Jr announced the FDA was was recommending a new drug to treat autism — leucovorin

But they failed to provide any more information. So parents flocked to a Facebook group, that quickly filled with chaos, confusion and conspiracies

www.wired.com/story/chaos-...

Chaos, Confusion, and Conspiracies: Inside a Facebook Group for RFK Jr’s Autism ‘Cure’

A Facebook group set up to share information about leucovorin has been spammed by affiliate links and supplement companies trying to shame parents of autistic kids.

Reposted by Erika Franklin Fowler, Andrew Chadwick

Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Oct 1

The new EU rules on political advertising online take effect October 10.

Google and Meta (FB, Insta) will stop political ads on their platforms 🛑

But when??? FB is now very explicit about when it takes effect: October 6

www.facebook.com/business/hel...

Reposted by Andrew Chadwick

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Oct 1

Good mentoring can break down class barriers: an open approach to knowledge and a kind, enabling manner helps students go their own way but never feel alone, says Andrew Chadwick https://ow.ly/H8H650X4lsq

Reposted by Alan Richardson, Andrew Chadwick

Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Sep 23

Sum: pseudoscience, lies, and fearmongering nonsense.

Those with a science background - Makary, Bhattacharya, Oz, etc - MUST know this is harmful BS. They MUST know they are enabling authoritarian BS.

Integrity black hole.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump attacks Tylenol as officials unveil highly contentious conclusions on autism

President says acetaminophen – also known as paracetamol - increases risk when taken by pregnant women, assertion contradicted by research

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Ben H. Ansell, Brendan Nyhan , and 6 more Lisa W. Fazio, Ben H. Ansell, Brendan Nyhan, Michael A. Clemens, Alan Richardson, Adrian Daub, Henry Jones, Andrew Chadwick, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · Sep 19

Biggest story in the world, told in the mainstream press perfectly well:

AP/PBS headline: TRUMP'S MOVES AGAINST MEDIA OUTLETS MIRROR AUTHORITARIAN APPROACHES TO SILENCING DISSENT

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Trump's moves against media outlets mirror authoritarian approaches to silencing dissent

Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has waged an aggressive campaign against the media unlike any in modern U.S. history, making moves similar to those of authoritarian leaders that...

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · Sep 19

Happy to help @gregbarradale.bsky.social with this story for @bigissue.com.

Is it too much to expect platforms' AI summaries to at least get the big things right?

Have a read.

Loughborough University PR @lboropr.bsky.social · Sep 19

'This is the latest in a long line of erroneous AI summaries'

Prof @andrewchadwick.com @lborouniversity.bsky.social talks to the The Big Issue

www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

No, Arsenal's Declan Rice didn't donate £14m to house homeless families

Google's AI summary is telling users Arsenal footballer Declan Rice donated £14m to a London housing project. But the story's not true.

www.bigissue.com

Reposted by Andrew Chadwick

Loughborough University PR @lboropr.bsky.social · Sep 19

'This is the latest in a long line of erroneous AI summaries'

Prof @andrewchadwick.com @lborouniversity.bsky.social talks to the The Big Issue

www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

No, Arsenal's Declan Rice didn't donate £14m to house homeless families

Google's AI summary is telling users Arsenal footballer Declan Rice donated £14m to a London housing project. But the story's not true.

www.bigissue.com

Reposted by Andrew Chadwick

Big Issue @bigissue.com · Sep 19

Google's AI summary is telling users Arsenal footballer Declan Rice donated £14m to a London housing project. But the story's not true.

No, Arsenal's Declan Rice didn't donate £14m to house homeless families

www.bigissue.com