Join our workshop: "Building a Shared Vision on Future Digital Infrastructures"
It's our session part of @iasamsterdam.bsky.social's 10th anniversary, exploring how academia can transition to Big Tech alternatives. 🧵 More info & sign-up link below!
📅 19 May | 10:00 - 12:00
📍 Oude Turfmarkt 145-147
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📣 Nieuwe column voor @groene.nl. Deze week over de verkiezingen in Hongarije. Het wegstemmen van een illiberale leider is één ding; het ontmantelen van het systeem dat hij heeft opgebouwd is iets heel anders.
www.groene.nl/artikel/na-o...
Good morning Holland 🌷 ☀️
#photography #sunrise
If you are in Copenhagen tonight….
“Is Democracy ready for AI?”
Lecture in Academy of Sciences ⬇️
@ddc-sdu.bsky.social
“I’m new here and love God, America,and Trump!!”
Hundreds of accounts on social media featuring AI-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace about the “radical left” and “America First.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...
The AI generated Lego propaganda from Iran is popular and goes viral.
I spoke @rtl.nl about why it is successful and how new technologies and affordable affordances are being leveraged.
www.rtl.nl/nieuws/buite...
Pretty wild interview with Magyar 🇭🇺
‘What happened here [on state television] since 2010 would make Goebbels or a North Korean dictator lick their lips’ !
Follow this 🧵 for ‘live coverage’ of the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social retreat, with awesome early career scholars, faculty, and our wonderful Fellows
#Hungary 2026: Elections, Institutions, Participation 🇭🇺
Join us on site in #Budapest or online wherever you are for a workshop on campaigns and information environments, rules, enforcement and litigation, and participation, representation and mobilisation ⬇️
www.reconstitution.eu/news/news-de...
🇵🇱 🇵🇱 Orbán’s shock election defeat is pushing Poland’s nationalist right to rethink its strategy ahead of next year’s vote.
Like Orbán’s Fidesz, PiS shares close ties with Donald Trump, deep skepticism of the EU, and a long embrace of “illiberal democracy.”
www.politico.eu/article/pola...
Democracy can allow illiberal forces to flourish.
Democracy can also end these forces.
#Hungary
💥🇭🇺With 95% of votes counted, Hungary’s map shows the opposition Tisza party crushing Fidesz 94–12 in constituencies. Péter Magyar has secured a 2/3 majority, asked President Tamás Sulyok and other Orbán loyalists to resign immediately, and announced his first visit to Warsaw.
Congratulations democracy
#HungaryElections
For the crucial Hungarian election, friends don’t let friends follow fake-experts. Follow these real experts instead:
@gabrielagreilinger.com
@danielhegedus.bsky.social
@veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social
@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social
@zecsaky.bsky.social
@rdanielkelemen.bsky.social
@eublogo.bsky.social
Turnout soaring in Hungary 🗳️📈🇭🇺
#HungaryElections
Worth contemplating today when Hungary votes 🗳️ 🇭🇺
An electoral autocracy ( @vdeminstitute.bsky.social), member of the European Union 🇪🇺, with overt electoral interference from both Russia and the US, for the same candidate.
We find this degree of chatbot-as-vote-advice usage in recent elections in fx the Netherlands and Denmark, using multiple data sources from @algosoc.org and @ddc-sdu.bsky.social studies
Why Hungary (and the EU) need a redemocratisation plan
My take on the Hungarian elections published across 20 media outlet, from El Pais to Libération
open.substack.com/pub/albertoa...
🛑 Chatbots are not fit for giving voting advice 🗳️
Latest study from @liberties.eu on the Hungarian election shows lack of transparency and reliability in the advice.
Our research shows that 10-15% by now use chatbots for advice, for young voters up to one quarter.
www.liberties.eu/en/stories/h...
Election interference. In plain sight.
Election interference. In plain sight.
The University of Michigan has been measuring consumer sentiment since 1952. We just got the first Iran-afflicted measure for April, and it's at the lowest level ever recorded.
Hungary’s election will test whether a system designed to favour the incumbent can still be beaten. By our calculations, Fidesz, the ruling party, could still lose power
Trumpflation. Worldwide.
"The biggest threat to democracy is not AI. But anti-democratic forces, often democratically elected. And yes, they may leverage AI in their strategies"
My opening at the ADD AI Summit
Inspiring, depressing, occasionally uplifting summit
@ddc-sdu.bsky.social
@algosoc.org
@aimediademlab.bsky.social
Reminder that all ‘deals’ are opaque and temporary, attention is flimsy, and nothing is stable.
Trump now on Greenland (a democratic society and ally) ⬇️
Meddling in elections? Or safeguarding democracy?
The EU is pretty clear on what “European bureaucrats” do. And do not do.
#elections #hungary
There are crucial elections in #Hungary 🇭🇺 this weekend. If you are looking for sharp and well-informed commentary on Hungarian politics, make sure you follow these excellent women!
@veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social
@gabrielagreilinger.com
@zecsaky.bsky.social
@eublogo.bsky.social
