Gen AI tools are not good sources for information during rapidly unfolding, novel events. Words associations aren't helpful for discovering ground truth. These tools are more likely to echo and contribute to the inherent uncertainty and ambiguity of crisis events.

As part of GNET’s series aligning with the UN’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Christopher David & @risius.bsky.social examine how Stormfront’s ideological unity is eroding as members increasingly diverge in their conceptualisations of white women.

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This article provides more data showing how easy it is to manipulate humans on social media.

These researchers rerouted the algorithm on Twitter to push some users toward “antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity”.

It only took 1 week to elicit changes that used to take 3 years.

"Fractured Facts: How Generative AI Fuels Anti-Immigrant Misinformation" socialmedialab.ca/2025/11/25/f...

LLMs don’t form judgments.
They skip straight to the answer.
No evaluation.
No grounding.
Just fluent output.
When generation bypasses judgment, knowledge becomes a performance.
Welcome to Epistemia.
PNAS commentary ⬇️

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Manuscript Monday! More new on our feed📲Scrolling Through Chaos: The Implications of TikTok for Crisis Sensemaking - Christy Khoury, Jeff Hemsley, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056... #academicsky

Finally, we move beyond social media research and discuss potential consequences of the production-consumption gap, which results in a remarkable visibility gap, for public opinion more broadly.

Selective Causal Focus: Research produced and funded by tech companies often either frames problems as user-driven, or solutions as the obligation of users (E.g. community notes). Distracting us from their design, business model, interface, and other causes steering us away from their profit model

What if we could counter authoritarian and anti-democratic attitudes before they take root?

Our colleague @marcoduerr.bsky.social proposes attitude inoculation as a preventive strategy to build resistance against harmful political mindsets.

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The policy discourse around information integrity has a disconnect between democratic rhetoric and action, writes Research ICT Africa’s Scott Timcke. The dirty work of democracy online requires bringing ideological critique to bear on information integrity, he says.

Are you in an echo chamber or stuck in your own information cocoon?

In a recent paper co-written by our @risius.bsky.social, they unpack the difference and why it matters for how we consume information.

Read the thread for details.

doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101904

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