across language barriers and manifest in local contexts with a local gallery of characters. Our article also demonstrate how even playful engagement in online conspiracy theories often results in harassment campaigns and threats of violence.
The article analyses a case where Danish facebook users engage in a conspiracy theory about a Danish children’s television host. The actor was accused of being at the centre of a satanic cabal grooming and abusing children through the tv show. The CT is an example of how these narratives travel
New publication in New Media and Society co-authored with Mikkel Bækby Johansen on the Violence of Online Conspiracies
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I've said it before: I genuinely consider it a moral imperative that people my age and up bang the drum about what the Internet used to be so those younger know that there's nothing inherent about what it is now. The Internet doesn't have to be this; its culture can and has belonged to people.
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
Tak!
I don’t think so? Do you have a link?
Great! Now regulate big tech and AI
Agreed. And part of the harm comes from people not understanding how it works and using it as a profecy/truth teller machine. We need regulation on use cases right now.
AI illiteracy is the real threat to civilisation. Not the “robots are taking over” sci-fi panic. It’s this
The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit
How much of his PhD was ‘building thinking’?
Ragebait, toksiske posts og fake content fylder meget i debatten om sociale medier, men tilsyneladende drejer det sig kun om 3 til 7 procent af indholdet. Og det kommer fra få brugere.
Ifølge academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Findes der tal fra Danmark?
cc @m-b-petersen.bsky.social
This right here! It’s really not difficult
Line (Sand) og Line (undertegnede) taler om internettet og hvad Epstein-filerne kan fortælles os om tabet af kronologi
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a reporter could get trump to confess to everything by asking him if he just wasnt famous enough to go to the island, just say youve heard he “never had the juice”
Jeg er helt med på en europæisk/dansk model. Lad os se at komme igang
@nebeling.bsky.social perhaps someone in your network?
Nogle politikere opfatter det som deres pligt at være til stede på Facebook fordi de har en fornemmelse af direkte dialog med borgerne. Jeg tror en bekymring kunne være at de sender er signal om ikke længere at ville det hvis de smutter. Men jeg er enig. De burde forlade platformene.
you:
[stressing for days to send the perfect single email]
billionaires:
hi, . w=en r we mee&ting to do iLlegiL stuff , . ?
Oh. My. God. Chomsky talking about the 'hysteria' that has developed about the abuse of women and giving Epstein advice on how to handle the media. In 2019. The Media studies discipline and much of the left should reflect on the power given to this one flawed man to shape generations of thought.
This could really be about so many people right now, but yes
This applies to at least a handful of people just off the top of my mind
I know lits of people that aren’t going. I’m not either.
That feeling when you, a terrorism and extremism scholar, see documentary evidence that shows moot met with Jeffery Epstein on the same day /pol was launched:
Today is the day! Closing of the SMIDGE project in style
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
