Mads Hove
@madshovethy.bsky.social
Political Scientist, Postdoc Aarhus University | microtargeting, misinformation, polarization
Converting a fully finished paper from LaTeX to Word is probably the most painful thing I have ever had to do. Is there really not any reeeeeeelatively easy way of doing it?
August 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Converting a fully finished paper from LaTeX to Word is probably the most painful thing I have ever had to do. Is there really not any reeeeeeelatively easy way of doing it?
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Huge congratulations to Dr @madshovethy.bsky.social ✨
Timely and strong dissertation, magnificent defense yesterday at U Amsterdam.
Proud supervisors @sarahobolt.bsky.social, Arjen van Dalen and 🙋
A privilege to have worked with you Mads from @ddc-sdu.bsky.social assistantship to Dr! 🚀
Timely and strong dissertation, magnificent defense yesterday at U Amsterdam.
Proud supervisors @sarahobolt.bsky.social, Arjen van Dalen and 🙋
A privilege to have worked with you Mads from @ddc-sdu.bsky.social assistantship to Dr! 🚀
July 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Want to know more about political micro-targeting? 🎯
@madshovethy.bsky.social defends his PhD dissertation Friday July 11 @ascor.bsky.social.
Supervisors @sarahobolt.bsky.social, Arjen van Dalen (@ddc-sdu.bsky.social) and I are excited. Good luck Mads!🍀
www.uva.nl/en/content/e...
@madshovethy.bsky.social defends his PhD dissertation Friday July 11 @ascor.bsky.social.
Supervisors @sarahobolt.bsky.social, Arjen van Dalen (@ddc-sdu.bsky.social) and I are excited. Good luck Mads!🍀
www.uva.nl/en/content/e...
The Nature and Consequences of Online Political Microtargeting
Mads Hove will defend the dissertation 'The Nature and Consequences of Online Political Microtargeting'. Supervisors are Prof. C.H. de Vreese and Prof. S.B. Hobolt. The co-supervisor is Prof. A. van D...
www.uva.nl
July 9, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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“💪Get me ripped in 3 months.” hmmm no thanks Meta AI
April 1, 2025 at 7:18 AM
“💪Get me ripped in 3 months.” hmmm no thanks Meta AI
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Big tech has a tremendous impact on democracy
🚨New report out w focus on misinformation, content moderation & generative AI
Team @anjabechmann.bsky.social @adler-nissen.bsky.social @madshovethy.bsky.social @golovchenko.bsky.social @fghjorth.bsky.social👏
Details⬇️
www.linkedin.com/posts/claes-...
🚨New report out w focus on misinformation, content moderation & generative AI
Team @anjabechmann.bsky.social @adler-nissen.bsky.social @madshovethy.bsky.social @golovchenko.bsky.social @fghjorth.bsky.social👏
Details⬇️
www.linkedin.com/posts/claes-...
Claes de Vreese on LinkedIn: Big tech has a tremendous impact on our democracies and societies. We…
Big tech has a tremendous impact on our democracies and societies. We presented our new report at a public hearing in The Danish Parliament - Folketinget.
The…
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February 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Big tech has a tremendous impact on democracy
🚨New report out w focus on misinformation, content moderation & generative AI
Team @anjabechmann.bsky.social @adler-nissen.bsky.social @madshovethy.bsky.social @golovchenko.bsky.social @fghjorth.bsky.social👏
Details⬇️
www.linkedin.com/posts/claes-...
🚨New report out w focus on misinformation, content moderation & generative AI
Team @anjabechmann.bsky.social @adler-nissen.bsky.social @madshovethy.bsky.social @golovchenko.bsky.social @fghjorth.bsky.social👏
Details⬇️
www.linkedin.com/posts/claes-...
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📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 1/7 cup.org/4axBEXo
Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core
Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging
cup.org
January 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 1/7 cup.org/4axBEXo
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USA er en banarepublik, der ikke længere overholder international lov. Dets demokrati er i frit fald og vi må forvente, at staten i nogen grad disintegrerer og ikke længere kan løfte alle sine opgaver. USA er ikke længere vores allierede og des før det går op for os des bedre.
January 21, 2025 at 6:31 AM
USA er en banarepublik, der ikke længere overholder international lov. Dets demokrati er i frit fald og vi må forvente, at staten i nogen grad disintegrerer og ikke længere kan løfte alle sine opgaver. USA er ikke længere vores allierede og des før det går op for os des bedre.
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See you in Denver at #ICA25!
I’m so happy to finally talk about this large cross-national collaboration we did last year!
I was fortunate to assemble a team of extraordinary people to study the role of ad delivery algorithms in political campaigns by collaborating with 30+ parties across the EU.
I’m so happy to finally talk about this large cross-national collaboration we did last year!
I was fortunate to assemble a team of extraordinary people to study the role of ad delivery algorithms in political campaigns by collaborating with 30+ parties across the EU.
January 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
See you in Denver at #ICA25!
I’m so happy to finally talk about this large cross-national collaboration we did last year!
I was fortunate to assemble a team of extraordinary people to study the role of ad delivery algorithms in political campaigns by collaborating with 30+ parties across the EU.
I’m so happy to finally talk about this large cross-national collaboration we did last year!
I was fortunate to assemble a team of extraordinary people to study the role of ad delivery algorithms in political campaigns by collaborating with 30+ parties across the EU.
Reposted by Mads Hove
A majority of Danes are in favor of the content moderation policy, which Meta now wants to remove.
But there are also areas where most Danes believe that people can decide for themselves, e.g. whether women can share pictures of themselves topless on the beach.
See a sample from our report below:
But there are also areas where most Danes believe that people can decide for themselves, e.g. whether women can share pictures of themselves topless on the beach.
See a sample from our report below:
Meta drops content moderation which users want! ⛔
New data show that users (n=2000 Danes) both disagree with some of the announced changes (like referring to religious groups as stupid) *and* dislike some policies being kept.
We need voices from users on this. And especially from non-US users.
New data show that users (n=2000 Danes) both disagree with some of the announced changes (like referring to religious groups as stupid) *and* dislike some policies being kept.
We need voices from users on this. And especially from non-US users.
January 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A majority of Danes are in favor of the content moderation policy, which Meta now wants to remove.
But there are also areas where most Danes believe that people can decide for themselves, e.g. whether women can share pictures of themselves topless on the beach.
See a sample from our report below:
But there are also areas where most Danes believe that people can decide for themselves, e.g. whether women can share pictures of themselves topless on the beach.
See a sample from our report below:
Having compiled the entirety of my dissertation for the first time has quite a surreal feeling to it
January 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Having compiled the entirety of my dissertation for the first time has quite a surreal feeling to it
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Meta drops content moderation which users want! ⛔
New data show that users (n=2000 Danes) both disagree with some of the announced changes (like referring to religious groups as stupid) *and* dislike some policies being kept.
We need voices from users on this. And especially from non-US users.
New data show that users (n=2000 Danes) both disagree with some of the announced changes (like referring to religious groups as stupid) *and* dislike some policies being kept.
We need voices from users on this. And especially from non-US users.
January 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Meta drops content moderation which users want! ⛔
New data show that users (n=2000 Danes) both disagree with some of the announced changes (like referring to religious groups as stupid) *and* dislike some policies being kept.
We need voices from users on this. And especially from non-US users.
New data show that users (n=2000 Danes) both disagree with some of the announced changes (like referring to religious groups as stupid) *and* dislike some policies being kept.
We need voices from users on this. And especially from non-US users.
But I just wrote a whole section in my dissertation on the backdrop that they want to get rid of politics on Meta, and I have to hand it in in three weeks. Grrrrr
January 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
But I just wrote a whole section in my dissertation on the backdrop that they want to get rid of politics on Meta, and I have to hand it in in three weeks. Grrrrr
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Two salient facts about Facebook replacing its fact-checking program with community notes:
(1) community notes are cheaper.
(2) the incoming political regime dislikes fact-checking. So community notes are less trouble.
The rest is just framing. Zuck's sole principle is to do what's best for Zuck.
(1) community notes are cheaper.
(2) the incoming political regime dislikes fact-checking. So community notes are less trouble.
The rest is just framing. Zuck's sole principle is to do what's best for Zuck.
Zuckerberg says Meta plans to eliminate its fact-checking program, move content moderators to Texas to address claims of bias, raise the bar for enforcing its terms and lift certain “restrictions” on immigration and gender talk.
Huge shift in platform policy.
Huge shift in platform policy.
January 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Two salient facts about Facebook replacing its fact-checking program with community notes:
(1) community notes are cheaper.
(2) the incoming political regime dislikes fact-checking. So community notes are less trouble.
The rest is just framing. Zuck's sole principle is to do what's best for Zuck.
(1) community notes are cheaper.
(2) the incoming political regime dislikes fact-checking. So community notes are less trouble.
The rest is just framing. Zuck's sole principle is to do what's best for Zuck.
Reposted by Mads Hove
Two things can be true:
1. AI is going to be an increasingly important part of work
2. Saying people need to be able to use AI well in its current form is like the silly obsession with making sure people had Windows PC skills when I was in college
www.phillyvoice.com/college-stud...
1. AI is going to be an increasingly important part of work
2. Saying people need to be able to use AI well in its current form is like the silly obsession with making sure people had Windows PC skills when I was in college
www.phillyvoice.com/college-stud...
College students caught between professors' AI bans and employers' growing demand for AI skills
Research shows 75% of workers now use artificial intelligence on the job, yet many universities still classify its use as cheating.
www.phillyvoice.com
December 26, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Two things can be true:
1. AI is going to be an increasingly important part of work
2. Saying people need to be able to use AI well in its current form is like the silly obsession with making sure people had Windows PC skills when I was in college
www.phillyvoice.com/college-stud...
1. AI is going to be an increasingly important part of work
2. Saying people need to be able to use AI well in its current form is like the silly obsession with making sure people had Windows PC skills when I was in college
www.phillyvoice.com/college-stud...
Folk i Thy forstod ikke, hvad det der BMO, der blev solgt nede på caféen var, så ejeren har oversat til Thybomål 😅
December 23, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Folk i Thy forstod ikke, hvad det der BMO, der blev solgt nede på caféen var, så ejeren har oversat til Thybomål 😅
Finishing up my dissertation about microtargeted ads being like
December 8, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Finishing up my dissertation about microtargeted ads being like
Me: I need to write more pages in one day than I have ever done before.
Overleaf:
Overleaf:
December 3, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Me: I need to write more pages in one day than I have ever done before.
Overleaf:
Overleaf:
Schrødingers julemand
Nu er det snart december. Jeg har skrevet om julemanden og non-kontradiktionsprincippet i Kristeligt Dagblad.
Filosof: Barnetroen er en legende tro. Julemanden kan godt både findes og ikke findes
Børn kan godt ved hjælp af leg manøvrere i rum, hvor der er to modstridende sandheder, for eksempel om julemanden findes eller ej. Den kreative tro kunne mange voksne fundamentalister i begge lejre læ...
www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk
November 28, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Schrødingers julemand
Fun experience presenting research findings on online misinformation to public libraries in beautiful Southern Jutland 🇩🇰
November 28, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Fun experience presenting research findings on online misinformation to public libraries in beautiful Southern Jutland 🇩🇰
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Unique professorship. Please share 🫶♾️
Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.
Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile.
📆: deadline February 17!
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Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.
Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile.
📆: deadline February 17!
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Professorship in Digital Communication with a Focus on Digital Society
Application Deadline: February 17, 2025.
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com
November 27, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Unique professorship. Please share 🫶♾️
Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.
Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile.
📆: deadline February 17!
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.
Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile.
📆: deadline February 17!
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
No better writing retreat than this
November 26, 2024 at 2:28 PM
No better writing retreat than this
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Hello everyone!
I made a starter pack for those researching and/or monitoring data-driven political campaigns, including techniques like political microtargeting 🎯
Let me know if you'd like to be included!
go.bsky.app/NMTmqbH
I made a starter pack for those researching and/or monitoring data-driven political campaigns, including techniques like political microtargeting 🎯
Let me know if you'd like to be included!
go.bsky.app/NMTmqbH
November 18, 2024 at 4:49 AM
Hello everyone!
I made a starter pack for those researching and/or monitoring data-driven political campaigns, including techniques like political microtargeting 🎯
Let me know if you'd like to be included!
go.bsky.app/NMTmqbH
I made a starter pack for those researching and/or monitoring data-driven political campaigns, including techniques like political microtargeting 🎯
Let me know if you'd like to be included!
go.bsky.app/NMTmqbH
Google will before Oct next year no longer allow political advertisements on their platforms -- says EU regulation introduces operational challenges and legal uncertainties blog.google/around-the-g...
An update on political advertising in the European Union
Google will stop serving political advertising in the EU ahead of new regulation in October 2025.
blog.google
November 15, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Google will before Oct next year no longer allow political advertisements on their platforms -- says EU regulation introduces operational challenges and legal uncertainties blog.google/around-the-g...