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 · 13d

I helped @victorrlopz.bsky.social with this report (for a Spanish readership) on the UK Greens' online strategy, which is proving effective.

Diario Público @publico.es · 13d

❓Qué puede aprender la izquierda (también en España) del viral spot del Partido Verde de Reino Unido

✍️ Por @victorrlopz.bsky.social

"Todo va hacia los bolsillos de los superricos": las lecciones para la izquierda del 'spot' viral de los verdes británicos

La formación ha lanzado una campaña que pone la lucha de clases en el centro del debate político.

www.publico.es

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Diario Público @publico.es · 13d

❓Qué puede aprender la izquierda (también en España) del viral spot del Partido Verde de Reino Unido

✍️ Por @victorrlopz.bsky.social

"Todo va hacia los bolsillos de los superricos": las lecciones para la izquierda del 'spot' viral de los verdes británicos

La formación ha lanzado una campaña que pone la lucha de clases en el centro del debate político.

www.publico.es

Reposted by Andrew Chadwick

Mike Wendling @wendling.bsky.social · 16d

A bunch of trolls mocked a mildly cringe anti-radicalization video game, and Britain’s right-wing press joined in. But why did they all ignore the *actual* far-right extremists pushing Amelia memes?

thedayofreckoning.substack.com/p/amelia-the...

Amelia: The far-right’s new waifu thirst trap mascot

Alt-right types mock a cringey online game and deny they're extremists... while posting racist memes exhorting men to do violence

thedayofreckoning.substack.com

Reposted by Andrew Chadwick

Domino Recording Company @dominorecordco.bsky.social · 18d

Domino is proud to amplify the launch of War Child Records in announcing the release of HELP(2); a brand new collaborative album including new music from:

Arctic Monkeys
wet leg
Beth Gibbons
Anna Calvi and more

warchildrecs.ffm.to/help2

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 18d

It's worse than this. Too often we see news reports from the big news orgs that sanitize Trump's rants and digressions either by ignoring them entirely in the write-up or by retrospectively making his remarks seem more coherent than they in fact were.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 19d

Rare to see discusson of the point @jamellebouie.net makes here. "Most coverage of Trump treats him as president in a functional way, even if he doesn’t perform the civic duties of the office." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
Rather than designing coverage for a cateory of one — the mad king...1/

Reposted by Alan Richardson, Andrew Chadwick, Christopher Blair

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 19d

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 19d

Re-upping this from six months ago, due to the recent context shift. Will the discourse of the "social media ban" for under-16s now marginalize the greater need to embed media literacy and carefully implement regulation of the online information environment in advance of franchise reform? Hope not.

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · Jul 17

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...

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

www.gov.uk

Reposted by Yarrow Dunham, David C. Kimball, Andrew Chadwick

Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social · 21d

Who is the Big Tobacco of today?
In new work, we find 50% of high profile social media papers are connected to big tech through funding, collaboration and employment. Most connections aren't disclosed. @jbakcoleman.bsky.social @jevinwest.bsky.social @carlbergstrom.com 1
arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507

Industry Influence in High-Profile Social Media Research

To what extent is social media research independent from industry influence? Leveraging openly available data, we show that half of the research published in top journals has disclosable ties to indus...

arxiv.org

Reposted by Andrew Scott, Mary Corcoran, Andrew Chadwick

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27d

Acting against X and Musk looks like the biggest open goal for Keir Starmer it's possible to imagine

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Loughborough University PR @lboropr.bsky.social · 27d

"X has a clear legal responsibility to act quickly to respond to user complaints and remove illegal content from its platform," says Prof @andrewchadwick.com to the @bigissue.com

Read the full article...

bit.ly/4qe6PxT

What would happen if the UK government actually banned Grok and X?

Keir Starmer's government has hinted a UK ban on X isn't out of the question. Experts tell us what a ban would look like in reality.

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 27d

See my LinkedIn for a longer, contextual explanation of my comments: www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

What would happen if the UK government actually banned Grok and X? | Andrew Chadwick

I was happy to help Greg Barradale at the Big Issue with his explainer report on how the UK regulatory regime applies to X's Grok AI. I restricted my comments to the practicalities of the law and th...

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 27d

I was happy to help @gregbarradale.bsky.social at the @bigissue.com with his explainer report on how the UK regulatory regime applies to X's Grok AI. www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

What would happen if the UK government actually banned Grok and X?

Keir Starmer's government has hinted a UK ban on X isn't out of the question. Experts tell us what a ban would look like in reality.

www.bigissue.com

Reposted by John Horgan, Erika Franklin Fowler, Alessandro Nai , and 4 more John Horgan, Erika Franklin Fowler, Alessandro Nai, Daniel Kreiss, Kate Starbird, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Andrew Chadwick

Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · Jan 5

🚨NEW PAPER
The Logic of Connective Faction:
How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics
w/ @yunkangyang.bsky.social & @mikecowburn.bsky.social

Online radicalization doesn't just affect the public.
It also reshapes how elites & parties behave. doi.org/10.1080/1058...

The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics

Across democratic systems, ideological cleavages increasingly emerge not only between but also within political parties. At the same time, hyperpartisan and digitally networked media ecosystems amp...

doi.org

Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · Dec 24

Never thought we'd see the US Government ban and deport staff from think tanks and NGOs that campaign to uphold key tenets of liberal democracy. Yet here we are. There are potential further implications for probably tens of thousands of academic researchers around the world. Extraordinarily grim.

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Mike Ananny @mikeananny.bsky.social · Dec 5

New paper!

In @icsjournal.bsky.social I argue that governing #AI means “scale work” — the labour of stabilizing AI *across* relationships that are usually tackled in isolation.

I use journalism’s GenAI encounters as a case study, connecting siloed AI collisions

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/T7WWF...

Abstract of article:

“ABSTRACT
Governing Artificial Intelligence (Al) is difficult, in part, because Al systems never stand still in any one place. They are usually made by private companies, hidden within proprietary infrastructures, spanning jurisdictions, behaving in ways that are difficult to predict, and talked about in messy discourses of hype and panic. I suggest here that all this dynamism and uncertainty could be tackled by understanding Al and its governance as multi-scalar phenomena. Drawing on DiCaglio's idea of a
'scalar view,' defining Al as a scalar media technology, and tracing journalism's encounters with Generative Al as scalar collisions - across
practices, organizations, data, audiences, and engineering - I argue that Al governance is
'scale work', and that multi-scalar governance offers new ways to understand Generative Al and its stakes.”

Reposted by Simon Lester, Andrew Chadwick

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Dec 5

European Commission issues €120 million fine to Elon Musk's X under the Digital Services Act. "The breaches include the deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark', the lack of transparency of its advertising repository, and the failure to provide access to public data for researchers."

Commission fines X €120 million under the Digital Services Act

Today, the Commission has issued a fine of €120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

ec.europa.eu

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Dame Sara Khan DBE @sarakhandbe.bsky.social · Nov 20

I left Twitter in 2015 ten years ago because of the scale of threats, abuse, cyber-stalking I received & the real world impact it had on me personally & professionally. Under Musk X is worse. He is a foreign hostile actor, interferes in our democracy, incites violence. Gov should be bold & abandon X

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Nov 20

Growing backbench pressure about how government uses X

I hope this pressure can link up with pressure to recognise strength of prima facie evidence thst X is in breach of legal duties (in systemic failure of its complaints system to be compliant with UK law)
www.politicshome.com/news/article...