Bente Kalsnes
@benteka.bsky.social
Professor of Political Communication, Department of Communication, Kristiania University College, Oslo. Researching and teaching on topics related to democracy, digital media and politics, platforms, disinformation.
«These filtering systems, including those used by Facebook, Meta, and Google, effectively delegate our information access to external forces rather than relying on personal critical reasoning. www.forbes.com/sites/hessie...?
When The Truth No Longer Matters: How Social Media’s Engagement Obsession Is Killing Democracy
Sensationalism, controversy, and misinformation outperform factual reporting, eroding trust in journalism and deepening societal divisions. Three journalists weigh in.
www.forbes.com
February 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
«These filtering systems, including those used by Facebook, Meta, and Google, effectively delegate our information access to external forces rather than relying on personal critical reasoning. www.forbes.com/sites/hessie...?
Nok et eksempel på at Trump inspirerer andre autoritære leder. www.politico.eu/article/geor...
Georgia ramps up restrictions on media, NGOs with drastic new laws
The fresh restrictions come amid a political crisis over disputed elections and the government’s reversal on its EU membership bid.
www.politico.eu
February 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Nok et eksempel på at Trump inspirerer andre autoritære leder. www.politico.eu/article/geor...
Should be a very timely topic: Special issue in New Media & Society: A Brave New Democracy. The impact of Social Media, Algorithms and AI on politics & citizenship. Deadline February 5th. heyzine.com/flip-book/ea...
Redirecting...
www.facebook.com
January 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Should be a very timely topic: Special issue in New Media & Society: A Brave New Democracy. The impact of Social Media, Algorithms and AI on politics & citizenship. Deadline February 5th. heyzine.com/flip-book/ea...
Helt vanvittige bilder fra Gaza www.vg.no/nyheter/i/jQ...
Hva er igjen?
Titusener av palestinere returnerer nå til ruiner etter 15 måneder med bombing i Gaza. En FN-rapport viser at 69 prosent av bygningene er skadet eller ødelagt. Nye dronebilder viser de enorme ødelegge...
www.vg.no
January 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Helt vanvittige bilder fra Gaza www.vg.no/nyheter/i/jQ...
“A social media platform’s dream is completely automated moderation that they, one, don’t have to take responsibility for and, two, don’t have to pay anyone for,” said Mr. Mahadevan, the director of MediaWise. “So Community Notes is the absolute dream of these people" www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/t...
Facebook Shifts Content Moderation to Its Users. Are You Ready?
Meta is joining X and YouTube in shifting moderation to users. Are you ready?
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“A social media platform’s dream is completely automated moderation that they, one, don’t have to take responsibility for and, two, don’t have to pay anyone for,” said Mr. Mahadevan, the director of MediaWise. “So Community Notes is the absolute dream of these people" www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/t...
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Regulation matters
Meta has "no plans to end fact-checking in the EU", the company clarified and "will review its EU content moderation obligations before making changes" www.politico.eu/article/mark...
Zuck goes full Musk, dumps Facebook fact-checking program
Meta will replace it with so-called community notes like on the X platform. The content moderation changes won’t be rolled out in the EU for now.
www.politico.eu
January 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Regulation matters
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Zuckerberg will soon "get rid of" fact-checkers across Meta platforms. He massively confuses fact-checking with "censorhip" 👇. Seems Meta will soon become the same cesspool of hate and misinformation as X. Well done Mark - more BlueSky users incoming!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content
Mark Zuckerberg says company will ‘dramatically reduce censorship’ across Facebook, Instagram and Threads
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Zuckerberg will soon "get rid of" fact-checkers across Meta platforms. He massively confuses fact-checking with "censorhip" 👇. Seems Meta will soon become the same cesspool of hate and misinformation as X. Well done Mark - more BlueSky users incoming!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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The key thing to understand about Meta without guard rails is that, when they allowed their platform to exist without any content controls in Myanmar under an extremist leader, it was used to directly enable a genocide. Zuckerberg knows that its level of threat. www.amnesty.org/en/location/...
Human rights in Myanmar
Stay up to date on the state of human rights in Myanmar with the latest research, campaigns and education material from Amnesty International.
www.amnesty.org
January 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The key thing to understand about Meta without guard rails is that, when they allowed their platform to exist without any content controls in Myanmar under an extremist leader, it was used to directly enable a genocide. Zuckerberg knows that its level of threat. www.amnesty.org/en/location/...
Iceland will have an EU referendum by 2027 - exciting news also for Norway. Will it finally start a new EU debate in Norway? www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
Iceland says it will put EU membership to referendum by 2027
Iceland has traditionally been ambivalent about joining the bloc but issues like the 2008 financial crisis, Brexit and a range of domestic issues has meant the country is slowly warming to the idea of...
www.euronews.com
December 23, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Iceland will have an EU referendum by 2027 - exciting news also for Norway. Will it finally start a new EU debate in Norway? www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
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What are the main challenges for the researchers studying citizen-produced political text? Data collection difficulties, steep learning curve, and more.
Read more in our piece with a wonderful OPTED team of Amanda Haraldsson, @michelesdv.bsky.social, @benteka.bsky.social, and Karolina Koc-Michalska.
Read more in our piece with a wonderful OPTED team of Amanda Haraldsson, @michelesdv.bsky.social, @benteka.bsky.social, and Karolina Koc-Michalska.
Citizen-produced political text: An interdisciplinary study of ineq...
Research possibilities utilising text data are expanding (Baden et al., 2022), and political text produced by citizens is among the most commonly employed text data within political and communicati...
journals.openedition.org
December 21, 2024 at 8:14 PM
What are the main challenges for the researchers studying citizen-produced political text? Data collection difficulties, steep learning curve, and more.
Read more in our piece with a wonderful OPTED team of Amanda Haraldsson, @michelesdv.bsky.social, @benteka.bsky.social, and Karolina Koc-Michalska.
Read more in our piece with a wonderful OPTED team of Amanda Haraldsson, @michelesdv.bsky.social, @benteka.bsky.social, and Karolina Koc-Michalska.
Now this. Other European politicians he has shown support for are Farage, Salvini.
Musk Expresses Support for Far-Right Party in Germany’s Election
It was not the first online intervention by Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and adviser to Donald Trump, on behalf of once-fringe anti-immigrant parties in Europe.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 8:19 AM
Now this. Other European politicians he has shown support for are Farage, Salvini.
Always interesting to listen to Pippa Norris (and Ezra Klein). Here, a very intersting episode about why the far right is thriving in so many countries. podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/t...
Best Of: Why the Far Right Is Thriving Across the Globe
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 06/12/2024 · 1h 31m
podcasts.apple.com
December 6, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Always interesting to listen to Pippa Norris (and Ezra Klein). Here, a very intersting episode about why the far right is thriving in so many countries. podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/t...
NordMedia's Call for Submissions in now open! Odense August 13.-15.
nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/...
Deadline for all submission types and abstracts is February 28th.
I would be extra glad if you would consider submitting something to the PolCom division (9)
nordmedianetwork.org/nordmedia-co...
nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/...
Deadline for all submission types and abstracts is February 28th.
I would be extra glad if you would consider submitting something to the PolCom division (9)
nordmedianetwork.org/nordmedia-co...
NordMedia 25: Call for Submissions - NordMedia Network
NordMedia 2025 invites submissions of papers, panels, and workshops engaging with the conference theme, Imagining Livable Futures. While we encourage participants to address the theme thoughtfully, cr...
nordmedianetwork.org
December 6, 2024 at 10:16 AM
NordMedia's Call for Submissions in now open! Odense August 13.-15.
nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/...
Deadline for all submission types and abstracts is February 28th.
I would be extra glad if you would consider submitting something to the PolCom division (9)
nordmedianetwork.org/nordmedia-co...
nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/...
Deadline for all submission types and abstracts is February 28th.
I would be extra glad if you would consider submitting something to the PolCom division (9)
nordmedianetwork.org/nordmedia-co...
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Meta and Google so far have basically held a duopoly on social media political advertising. This is bound to become a monopoly once Google has stopped carrying political ads (at least officially, we know that political ads still occur on platforms where they are banned).
Graph from my dissertation.
Graph from my dissertation.
November 22, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Meta and Google so far have basically held a duopoly on social media political advertising. This is bound to become a monopoly once Google has stopped carrying political ads (at least officially, we know that political ads still occur on platforms where they are banned).
Graph from my dissertation.
Graph from my dissertation.
Reposted by Bente Kalsnes
Reposted by Bente Kalsnes
Very very honestly, the best thing that ever happened for Bluesky was that Jack Dorsey quit in a huff and took his increasingly weird, faux-democratic worldview with him. 🚮
This platform's gone from strength to strength since his dark shadow lifted. 🌞
This platform's gone from strength to strength since his dark shadow lifted. 🌞
November 20, 2024 at 2:52 AM
Very very honestly, the best thing that ever happened for Bluesky was that Jack Dorsey quit in a huff and took his increasingly weird, faux-democratic worldview with him. 🚮
This platform's gone from strength to strength since his dark shadow lifted. 🌞
This platform's gone from strength to strength since his dark shadow lifted. 🌞
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This chart is pretty insane. More of an overnight social/political-type shift than typical tech adoption imo: techcrunch.com/2024/11/19/b...
November 19, 2024 at 7:13 PM
This chart is pretty insane. More of an overnight social/political-type shift than typical tech adoption imo: techcrunch.com/2024/11/19/b...
European Parliament will use TikTok for EU electoral campaign despite ban www.euractiv.com/section/poli...
February 7, 2024 at 10:20 AM
European Parliament will use TikTok for EU electoral campaign despite ban www.euractiv.com/section/poli...
Media law reform poses major test for Tusk as PiS fights back euobserver.com/rule-of-law/...
January 8, 2024 at 8:33 AM
Media law reform poses major test for Tusk as PiS fights back euobserver.com/rule-of-law/...
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EU Commission launches investigation of X, also for lack of researcher data access:
"The investigation concerns suspected shortcomings in giving researchers access to X's publicly accessible data as mandated by Article 40 of the DSA, as well as shortcomings in X's ads repository."
rb.gy/itv4s5
"The investigation concerns suspected shortcomings in giving researchers access to X's publicly accessible data as mandated by Article 40 of the DSA, as well as shortcomings in X's ads repository."
rb.gy/itv4s5
Press corner
Highlights, press releases and speeches
rb.gy
December 18, 2023 at 11:26 AM
EU Commission launches investigation of X, also for lack of researcher data access:
"The investigation concerns suspected shortcomings in giving researchers access to X's publicly accessible data as mandated by Article 40 of the DSA, as well as shortcomings in X's ads repository."
rb.gy/itv4s5
"The investigation concerns suspected shortcomings in giving researchers access to X's publicly accessible data as mandated by Article 40 of the DSA, as well as shortcomings in X's ads repository."
rb.gy/itv4s5
This is a topic we have been working on since 2020 in the SCAM project (Source Criticism and Mediated Disinformation), read more here: uni.oslomet.no/scam/
November 19, 2023 at 12:13 PM
This is a topic we have been working on since 2020 in the SCAM project (Source Criticism and Mediated Disinformation), read more here: uni.oslomet.no/scam/
(Cont.) The contradictions between established routines in the newsroom and the demand for renewal of journalistic methods can be sorted under two themes: strategy vs. practice and proximity vs. distance to the field and sources.
November 19, 2023 at 12:13 PM
(Cont.) The contradictions between established routines in the newsroom and the demand for renewal of journalistic methods can be sorted under two themes: strategy vs. practice and proximity vs. distance to the field and sources.
(Cont.)We investigated this in three Norwegian newsrooms in connection with the 2021 election and our findings show a discrepancy between the alleged potential of the new technologies and the everyday practice of newswork and fact-checking – also in the digitally advanced Norwegian media industry.
November 19, 2023 at 12:13 PM
(Cont.)We investigated this in three Norwegian newsrooms in connection with the 2021 election and our findings show a discrepancy between the alleged potential of the new technologies and the everyday practice of newswork and fact-checking – also in the digitally advanced Norwegian media industry.
New article from Reidun J. Samuelsen, me and Steen Steensen on journalism, disinformation and fact-checking. How do journalists check digital information?
Read the full article in Journalism Practice, the article is openly available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Read the full article in Journalism Practice, the article is openly available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 19, 2023 at 12:12 PM
New article from Reidun J. Samuelsen, me and Steen Steensen on journalism, disinformation and fact-checking. How do journalists check digital information?
Read the full article in Journalism Practice, the article is openly available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Read the full article in Journalism Practice, the article is openly available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....