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Hannes Cools
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Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam 🇳🇱 || Journalism, AI, Tech & innovation 👨‍💻 || Fellow Digital Democracy Centre 🇩🇰 & Marie Curie Scholar 🇪🇺 || #FirstGen
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November 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
This comes at a sensitive time for the BBC, with the government set to review the corporation's royal charter. As the biggest public broadcaster in the world, the BBC is and has always been under a lot of scrutiny. #PublicBroadcasting #BBC #Media
November 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Congrats, Felix!!
November 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"WIRED obtained 1665 pages of docs about the neighborhood dispute, including 311 records, legal filings, construction plans, and emails, through a public record request filed to the Palo Alto Dpt of Planning Services. (Mentions of “Zuckerberg” or “the Zuckerbergs” appear to have been redacted)"
November 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I am curious what audiences think of these labels, and if their perspectives were included in the design choices that were made.

Read more here: www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
How we’re designing user-centred AI labels at the BBC
As a public service organisation, it’s vital that audiences can trust what they see in BBC content and understand how AI is used.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The question remains if audiences will notice this label, or sign, as we see in our own research that this is often not the case. Audiences mention contrasting colours, or more prominent labels. I do agree that consistency is good, but ...
November 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Also me every year: "I will submit way before the deadline." But the deadline always sneaks up like, "Guess who’s back?" 🫠
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media.tenor.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Voor stemmen uit buitenland vraag ik me af: Zijn die niet al lang binnen? (aangezien je ruim op voorhand moet stemmen) De laatste twee weken is D66 nog opgeschoven, dus misschien gaan stemmen meer naar GL-PVDA dan naar D66?
October 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
NOS now reports that 𝗣𝗩𝗩 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝗗𝟲𝟲 for the first time in terms of voter numbers. Such a close call is unprecedented.

(According to the ANP news agency, 99.6 percent of the votes have now been counted.)
nos.nl/liveblog/258...
October 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM