It's worse than this. Too often we see news reports from the big news orgs that sanitize Trump's rants and digressions either by ignoring them entirely in the write-up or by retrospectively making his remarks seem more coherent than they in fact were.
I helped @victorrlopz.bsky.social with this report (for a Spanish readership) on the UK Greens' online strategy, which is proving effective.
A bunch of trolls mocked a mildly cringe anti-radicalization video game, and Britain’s right-wing press joined in. But why did they all ignore the *actual* far-right extremists pushing Amelia memes?
thedayofreckoning.substack.com/p/amelia-the...
Domino is proud to amplify the launch of War Child Records in announcing the release of HELP(2); a brand new collaborative album including new music from:
Arctic Monkeys
wet leg
Beth Gibbons
Anna Calvi and more
warchildrecs.ffm.to/help2
It's worse than this. Too often we see news reports from the big news orgs that sanitize Trump's rants and digressions either by ignoring them entirely in the write-up or by retrospectively making his remarks seem more coherent than they in fact were.
Who is the Big Tobacco of today?
In new work, we find 50% of high profile social media papers are connected to big tech through funding, collaboration and employment. Most connections aren't disclosed. @jbakcoleman.bsky.social @jevinwest.bsky.social @carlbergstrom.com 1
arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507
Re-upping this from six months ago, due to the recent context shift. Will the discourse of the "social media ban" for under-16s now marginalize the greater need to embed media literacy and carefully implement regulation of the online information environment in advance of franchise reform? Hope not.
Acting against X and Musk looks like the biggest open goal for Keir Starmer it's possible to imagine
"X has a clear legal responsibility to act quickly to respond to user complaints and remove illegal content from its platform," says Prof @andrewchadwick.com to the @bigissue.com
Read the full article...
bit.ly/4qe6PxT
See my LinkedIn for a longer, contextual explanation of my comments: www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
I was happy to help @gregbarradale.bsky.social at the @bigissue.com with his explainer report on how the UK regulatory regime applies to X's Grok AI. www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
🚨NEW PAPER
The Logic of Connective Faction:
How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics
w/ @yunkangyang.bsky.social & @mikecowburn.bsky.social
Online radicalization doesn't just affect the public.
It also reshapes how elites & parties behave. doi.org/10.1080/1058...
Never thought we'd see the US Government ban and deport staff from think tanks and NGOs that campaign to uphold key tenets of liberal democracy. Yet here we are. There are potential further implications for probably tens of thousands of academic researchers around the world. Extraordinarily grim.
Abstract of article: “ABSTRACT Governing Artificial Intelligence (Al) is difficult, in part, because Al systems never stand still in any one place. They are usually made by private companies, hidden within proprietary infrastructures, spanning jurisdictions, behaving in ways that are difficult to predict, and talked about in messy discourses of hype and panic. I suggest here that all this dynamism and uncertainty could be tackled by understanding Al and its governance as multi-scalar phenomena. Drawing on DiCaglio's idea of a 'scalar view,' defining Al as a scalar media technology, and tracing journalism's encounters with Generative Al as scalar collisions - across practices, organizations, data, audiences, and engineering - I argue that Al governance is 'scale work', and that multi-scalar governance offers new ways to understand Generative Al and its stakes.”
New paper!
In @icsjournal.bsky.social I argue that governing #AI means “scale work” — the labour of stabilizing AI *across* relationships that are usually tackled in isolation.
I use journalism’s GenAI encounters as a case study, connecting siloed AI collisions
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/T7WWF...
European Commission issues €120 million fine to Elon Musk's X under the Digital Services Act. "The breaches include the deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark', the lack of transparency of its advertising repository, and the failure to provide access to public data for researchers."
Dame Sara Khan, former govt adviser on social cohesion, responds to my story and also calls on the government to leave X 👇
14/ Summary article on Cristian's blog: cristianvaccari.com/2023/01/10/n...
Summary article on my blog: www.andrewchadwick.com/blog/2022/12...
13/ It has important implications. Do we really want radically weakened public service media organizations?
12/ We call this the “campaign disinformation divide”—between getting news from professional journalistic organizations and news from social media.
11/ Use of tabloid news, on its own and not as part of a broader diet of professional news, was linked with being worse at recognising disinformation.
10/ False news, once perceived as accurate, was more likely to be shared than true news. To explore our results further, we did a number of additional tests where we isolated individual sources rather than combine them together.
9/ These differences also shaped the intention to share true versus false news.
8/ Conversely, the more that respondents used social media for campaign news, the less they were able to distinguish true from false information.
7/ The key findings: the more that respondents received their political campaign news via professional news organizations, the more they were able to distinguish true from false information.
6/ We used two surveys of samples mirroring the adult population (total 4,018).
5/ We also wanted to examine whether there were any connections between discerning true and false news and sharing those types of news on social media.
4/ We were interested in testing whether the different kinds of news diets people in the UK consume might differentially equip them to discern between true and false news.
3/ Cristian Vaccari, Johannes Kaiser, and I (fairly) recently published a study in the journal Political Communication.
2/ Here's one bit of evidence.
Much will be said about the British Broadcasting Corporation over the coming days and weeks. But let’s consider for a moment the broader role it and similar public service media organizations play in the increasingly dysfunctional media systems we see around the world.