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Damian Trilling 🟥
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Professor of Journalism Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands. About me: https://damiantrilling.net . Our group is here: @journstudiesvu.bsky.social and here: https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/faculties/faculty-of-humanities/more-about/journalism .. more

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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 17h
📜Fresh off the press: Annett Heft, @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, Barbara Pfetsch & I attempted to find a level for defining social media affordances that permits conceptualizing differences between platforms and uses, and is thus useful for theory building.
doi.org/10.1093/ct/q...
Differential social media affordances: an actor type-centric, intermediate-level approach using the case of social movements
Abstract. Social media have profoundly changed social communication practices across a vast range of contexts. To theorize these changes, numerous authors
doi.org

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Linda Duits @lalalalinder.bsky.social · 18h
Ongeveer de helft van de Amerikaanse tieners denkt dat journalisten citaten verzinnen, 45% vindt dat ze de democratie meer beschadigen dan beschermen, 80% dat ze niet onpartijdiger zijn dan andere content creators www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/bias...
“Biased,” “boring,” “chaotic,” and “bad”: A majority of teens hold negative views of news media, report finds
About half of the teens surveyed believe that journalists frequently “make up details, such as quotes” and “pay for sources.”
www.niemanlab.org

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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 18h
www.researchgate.net/profile/Juan...

What a great and necessary paper: "This article contends that this ‘polarisation narrative’ simplifies complex issues through a bad analogy: the construction of a spectrum where good should be found in the middle of diametrically opposed political positions."
www.researchgate.net

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BNR @bnr.nl · 7d
Locatiegegevens EU-functionarissen te koop: ‘Staten kunnen meekijken’
Locatiegegevens EU-functionarissen te koop: ‘Staten kunnen meekijken’
De locatiegegevens van miljoenen mobiele telefoons in Belgi zijn online te koop, waaronder die van hoge EUfunctionarissen. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van BNR in samenwerking met internationale partnermedia. Het risico op chantage en spionage is groot, waarschuwen deskundigen.
www.bnr.nl

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Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net · 7d
Heel erg gefeliciteerd!!!

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 8d
Evidence that academics have been complaining about service roles for about 3000 years...

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 8d
Surprise, it took this long: In a bid to stem the tsunami of AI-written papers, arXiv’s CS just changed its submission policy, requiring that all articles and position papers must now be accepted at a journal or a conference and complete a successful peer review. blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org

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Thorsten Quandt @thorstenquandt.bsky.social · 9d
🎓 We’re hiring!
Two researcher / PhD positions in the ERC project DANCE – Dark Nerd Communities at the University of Münster 🇪🇺
🧮 Quantitative: survey, lab + field experiments
🎙️ Qualitative: ethnography, focus groups, interviews
Apply by 28 Nov 2025 👇
#AcademicJobs #ERC #PhD #CommunicationResearch

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Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net · 9d
Mocht je naar #museumnacht gaan: in museum Tot Zover geef ik vanochtend een serie korte lezingen! museumnacht.amsterdam/programma/sp...

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Thomas @thomasfuchs.at · 10d
Meme showing six logical operators illustrated with jack-o'-lantern images. trick OR treat trick AND treat trick XOR treat trick NOR treat trick NAND treat trick XNOR treat

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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 11d
Visualized here. Hot tip for journalists: the real question isn’t why Wilders lost, but why the far right has consolidated — despite Wilders's ineffectiveness in government.

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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 11d
We have a new preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...

What have we learned about social media - the constantly moving target of empirical research - over the past decade?

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Folkert Jensma @folkertjensma.bsky.social · 12d
"Het radicaal-rechtse blok (PVV, JA21, FVD) verliest ten opzichte van 2023 zo slechts één zetel." www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Grote overwinning van D66 markeert de comeback van het politieke midden
Verkiezingsuitslag: De kiezer geeft de partijen uit het kabinet-Schoof een afstraffing en beloont middenpartijen D66 en CDA. Twee mogelijke meerderheidscoalities liggen voor de hand: eentje door het m...
www.nrc.nl

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Siem Eikelenboom @sieboom.bsky.social · 12d
Ik mis in de analyses op @nieuws.nos.nl de invloed van talkshows op de uitslag. Het non-probleem migratie is door deze shows tot zeppelinproporties opgeblazen.

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Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net · 12d
Ja hij doet het goed hè ?

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Maarten Hopman @maartenhopman.bsky.social · 12d
Blijft toch iedere keer weer bizar hoe een racistische zin als 'de huizen gewoon weer voor Nederlanders' nu als normaal wordt gezien. Gewoon op live televisie, nul tegenspraak. Geniet lekker van je biertje! We gaan weer terug naar de studio.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 12d
"Access to data by researchers is a crucial element of ensuring transparency and democratic accountability,” @lewan.bsky.social says. “The public is entitled to know what platforms and their algorithms are doing to the information landscape.”
I wrote for @science.org about Meta, TikTok and the DSA 🧪
Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers’ access to data, European Commission rules
Data are needed to study how social media spreads misinformation and influences elections, scientists say
www.science.org

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Tom van der Meer @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social · 12d
Een van de mooiste kanten van onze verkiezingen, is de onmisbare inzet van vrijwilligers. Van het opzettenin de vroege uurtjes tot het tellen van stemmen in de laatste uurtjes.
Een vaak wat onderbelichte pijler van de democratie, die door hun werk minder snel gekaapt wordt.
Dank!

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 12d
As a scholar I rarely offer electoral guidance. But today I do:

DO NOT USE AI CHATBOTS AS YOUR VOTE ADVICE APPLICATION AHEAD OF (THE DUTCH) ELECTIONS

Full of errors, bias and lack of transparency.

@ernesto-deleon.com @favstats.eu @theoaraujo.bsky.social and🙋unpack why

algosoc.org/results/1-in...
1 in 10 Dutch citizens are likely to ask AI for election advice. This is why they shouldn't | AlgoSoc
algosoc.org

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Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net · 14d
Wat een goede timing!
lcjacobs89.bsky.social Laura Jacobs @lcjacobs89.bsky.social · 17d
Now out in Party Politics 🎉

Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing.
👉 A legitimisation effect.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 14d
The Facebook page behind these images was the most active spreader of political AI content, posting multiple times a day and becoming the most engaged-with pages on Facebook among all those we track. Even surpassing Geert Wilders in total engagement during October. The page has now been deleted.

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Laura Jacobs @lcjacobs89.bsky.social · 17d
Now out in Party Politics 🎉

Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing.
👉 A legitimisation effect.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18d
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk

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Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net · 19d
Heel vet!

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Lisanne @lisanne.bsky.social · 19d
Trots! Samen met onze internationale mediapartners genomineerd voor een Duits-Franse journalistiekprijs, voor ons onderzoek naar het verzamelen en doorverkopen van locatiegegevens van telefoons

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NRC @nrc.nl · 21d
Slechts drie partijen blijven volledig binnen de grenzen van de rechtsstaat: ‘Zorgwekkende ontwikkeling’
Slechts drie partijen blijven volledig binnen de grenzen van de rechtsstaat: ‘Zorgwekkende ontwikkeling’
Uit de traditionele toets van verkiezingsprogramma’s door de Nederlandse orde van advocaten blijkt dat alleen de Partij voor de Dieren (PvdD), GroenLinks-PvdA en Volt binnen de rechtsstatelijke lijntjes kleuren.
www.nrc.nl

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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · 23d
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers
www.theguardian.com

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Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net · 24d
This seems to suggest that the small parties are in opposition to Wilders, which seems like a big stretch for BBB, FvD, JA21…. You could equally well argue: fragmentation is making it much harder for the far right to get their act together and take over government.

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Remco Breuker 🟥 @remcobreuker.bsky.social · 25d
Analyse van de partijprogramma's van de verschillende politieke partijen aangaande hun plannen met het wetenschappelijk onderwijs.

Maakt het wat makkelijker te besluiten wat te stemmen, wat mij betreft. #WOinActie

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 26d
BREAKING: Journalists exited the Pentagon after refusing to agree to the Trump administration's new restrictions on access.
Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces on Wednesday, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs being removal from being at the seat of U.S. military power.
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