Publication alert: We have a new publication on "Disrupting or invigorating an anti-democratic counterpublic? How highly active commenters engage on RT German’s Facebook page"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Publication alert: We have a new publication on "Disrupting or invigorating an anti-democratic counterpublic? How highly active commenters engage on RT German’s Facebook page"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Co-authored with @florian-toepfl.bsky.social, our new Europe-Asia Studies article is out in open access. Using 350 self-published CVs (2013-2021) from Prigozhin’s IRA “troll farm”, we map staffing, task divisions, a five-level hierarchy, 2014 recruitment surge. doi.org/10.1080/0966...
My Op-ed @theguardian.com on #Ukraine, the Paris declaration & unrealistic hopes for a ceasefire⬇️
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Als Tipp, weil ich das Paper gerade im Examensseminar bespreche: Ein exzellentes Paper und must-read für alle, die Kriegsberichterstattung inhaltsanalysieren. Uns fehlen aktuell vergleichbare normative Reflektionen zum Umgang mit rechtsextremen Akteuren: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Als Tipp, weil ich das Paper gerade im Examensseminar bespreche: Ein exzellentes Paper und must-read für alle, die Kriegsberichterstattung inhaltsanalysieren. Uns fehlen aktuell vergleichbare normative Reflektionen zum Umgang mit rechtsextremen Akteuren: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📰 Dr. Teresa Völker zeigt, wie politische Debatten zur Normalisierung der AfD beitragen. Wenn demokratische Parteien rechte Narrative übernehmen, verschiebt sich der Rahmen unserer Demokratie. Deswegen der Appel: wachsam bleiben und Haltung zeigen.
👉 www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft...
Time to ask: In whose interests is American foreign policy being conducted?
WSJ Gentry Beach, a college friend of Donald Trump Jr. and campaign donor to his father, has been in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if it is released from sanctions. Another Trump donor, Stephen P. Lynch, paid $600,000 this year to a lobbyist close to Trump Jr. who is helping him seek a Treasury Department license to buy the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from a Russian state-owned company.
One sign that he may be serious is that some of his most-trusted friends, sanctioned billionaires from his St. Petersburg hometown-Gennady Timchenko, Yuri Kovalchuk and the Rotenberg brothers, Boris and Arkady-have sent representatives to quietly meet American companies to explore rare-earth mining and energy deals, according to people familiar with the meetings and European security officials. That includes reviving the giant Nord Stream pipeline, sabotaged by Ukrainian tactical divers, and under European Union sanctions. Earlier this year, Exxon Mobil met with Russia's biggest state energy company, Rosneft, to discuss returning to the massive Sakhalin gas project if Moscow and Washington gave the green light.
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
The ibidem-Verlag Book series "Ukrainian Voices" on Amazon: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
A schoolbook example of a propaganda campaign. Banal and and very likely effective at the same time. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
There's always a Russian connection ... "Jeffrey Epstein claims he gave Russians insight into Trump. Newly released emails show the late convicted sex offender’s extensive network of foreign contacts, whom he corresponded with about Trump’s policy decisions." www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
New from me: “working the refs” has come for Wikipedia. The same type of attacks alleging anti-conservative bias that right wing politicians have make about social media are coming for the encyclopedia — because of its critical role in shaping AI answer engines.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
For the government to remain on X is now unconscionable.
Out now: key data from the third wave of the Worlds of Journalism Study. 75 countries, >32,350 journalists, >300 researchers, seven years of successful collaboration. Many thanks to all who contributed to this project!
www.worldsofjournalism.org/reports-wjs3/
That there will likely be no Trump-Putin meeting in the near future does not change the fact that Putin’s psychological operation to disrupt the Tomahawk deliveries to Ukraine has been, so far, a success. That disruption was the only thing that actually mattered.
Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for the next two years." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
1/Die Berlinskaja Prawda bietet heute ihren Leser*innen eine besondere Überraschung an: eine Kurzreise "Auf den Spuren Wilhelm Piecks". Ich vermute, nur wenige werden sich daran stören - wer war Pieck schon. Ein alter Mann mit immer guter Laune, den alle mochten... Kann man doch
Trump will den Krieg seit Amtsantritt einfrieren. Die Ukraine ist seit Monaten dazu bereit. Doch Russland verhindert Frieden. Putin will mehr ukrainisches Staatsgebiet, als er erobern konnte. Ohne echten Druck der USA wird er weiter mit Gewalt versuchen, sein Ziel zu erreichen.
media world vs. real world 😵💫
why don't I see any critical coverage of this in Germany?
Excellent read with many leading academics cited. On how Trump provokes violence to gain control. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...
Excellent read with many leading academics cited. On how Trump provokes violence to gain control. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...
youtube.com/watch?v=Nmen...
"We've been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies." - Macron defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
It seems likely that Russia will use the nuclear power plant in the next days and weeks to put pressure on Ukraine, in a very risky game.
kyivindependent.com/its-a-risky-...
Sitzen zwei Dikatoren in Europa beisammen und jammern, wie schlecht es ihnen geht: "Gestern saß ich den ganzen Tag mit Putin zusammen und wir haben darüber nachgedacht, wie wir diese schwierigen Zeiten überstehen können.”
Over the last century, many democracies have started down the road to autocracy.
Some managed to turn around. What did these 'U-turns' have in common?
Political economist @marinanord.bsky.social & colleagues' conclusions are clear and succinct.
Full research summary: www.v-dem.net/media/public...
