Max van Drunen
@maxvandrunen.bsky.social
Institute for Information Law. Studying how we should regulate tech that makes and targets news & political speech.
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Come work with us 🚨
We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab.
Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science.
Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions.
DL 🗓️ November 1
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab.
Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science.
Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions.
DL 🗓️ November 1
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher Communication Science at AI, Media & Democracy Lab
Do you want to be part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in communication science.
werkenbij.uva.nl
October 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Come work with us 🚨
We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab.
Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science.
Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions.
DL 🗓️ November 1
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab.
Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science.
Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions.
DL 🗓️ November 1
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
🚩New paper out!
I look at how big tech's control over the technologies used inside newsrooms (cloud, genAI, etc) threatens media freedom, and what EU law can do about it.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I look at how big tech's control over the technologies used inside newsrooms (cloud, genAI, etc) threatens media freedom, and what EU law can do about it.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Safeguarding media freedom from infrastructural reliance on AI companies: The role of EU law
An emerging body of journalism studies research has shown how media organizations are growing dependent on external companies to provide AI tools used…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
🚩New paper out!
I look at how big tech's control over the technologies used inside newsrooms (cloud, genAI, etc) threatens media freedom, and what EU law can do about it.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I look at how big tech's control over the technologies used inside newsrooms (cloud, genAI, etc) threatens media freedom, and what EU law can do about it.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Max van Drunen
📣 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗜 & 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 📣
We evaluated public accountability and regulatory expectations for AI in journalism. We conducted focus groups with Dutch citizens.
Some results 👇🧵
Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We evaluated public accountability and regulatory expectations for AI in journalism. We conducted focus groups with Dutch citizens.
Some results 👇🧵
Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
September 5, 2025 at 6:17 AM
📣 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗜 & 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 📣
We evaluated public accountability and regulatory expectations for AI in journalism. We conducted focus groups with Dutch citizens.
Some results 👇🧵
Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We evaluated public accountability and regulatory expectations for AI in journalism. We conducted focus groups with Dutch citizens.
Some results 👇🧵
Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by Max van Drunen
This weekend, the Meta Ad Library turns seven, and the first ads in it, from back in 2018, will start to disappear. It would be trivial for Meta to keep a permanent archive of political ads, and they should. Here's more on that:
whotargets.me/en/the-disap...
whotargets.me/en/the-disap...
The disappearing ad library – Who Targets Me
whotargets.me
May 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
This weekend, the Meta Ad Library turns seven, and the first ads in it, from back in 2018, will start to disappear. It would be trivial for Meta to keep a permanent archive of political ads, and they should. Here's more on that:
whotargets.me/en/the-disap...
whotargets.me/en/the-disap...
Reposted by Max van Drunen
I am still wrapping my head around Google's announcement to stop political advertising in the EU in 2025.
The decision to stop is allegedly due to regulation's broad definition of what a political ad is. But this is problematic.
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#commsky #polcom #csssky #polisky
blog.google/around-the-g...
The decision to stop is allegedly due to regulation's broad definition of what a political ad is. But this is problematic.
[1/2]
#commsky #polcom #csssky #polisky
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 21, 2024 at 9:19 AM
I am still wrapping my head around Google's announcement to stop political advertising in the EU in 2025.
The decision to stop is allegedly due to regulation's broad definition of what a political ad is. But this is problematic.
[1/2]
#commsky #polcom #csssky #polisky
blog.google/around-the-g...
The decision to stop is allegedly due to regulation's broad definition of what a political ad is. But this is problematic.
[1/2]
#commsky #polcom #csssky #polisky
blog.google/around-the-g...