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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 1h

Incredible... "How passengers and crew regained control of an Israel-bound FlyDubai jet after pilot attack" apnews.com/article/isra...

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 12h

We are approaching a pandemic-level of travel avoidance. As we noted before, once people's vacation travel patterns change, they discover new places to fall in love with; they rarely return to their old ones.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 29/09/2026

Monoculture is not healthy. Take away AI investments, and the US economy is basically treading water.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 27/09/2026

_ _ AZ _. As ever, it falls to women to gather the fraying threads and hold the whole world together. #DemocracyMatters

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 27/09/2026

"Pictured: Counter-terror police arrest ‘bomb plot’ suspects near RAF base." In case you're wondering why the men are stripped to the waist, this is a common security-search measure to ensure that they aren't carrying bombs & other deadly weapons on their bodies. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 27/09/2026

There are currently three major hurricanes raging simultaneously across the Pacific Ocean. #TotallyNormalRight www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 24/09/2026

3. The activity relates to a political or governmental process in Canada. www.canada.ca/en/foreign-i...

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 20/09/2026

Here's another terrific performance at this year's Toronto Ukrainian festival. Stop by if you are in town. So much great food, too. #Toronto

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 19/09/2026

If you are in Toronto this weekend, check out North America's largest Ukrainian street festival. ukrainianfestival.com #SlavaUkraine

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 17/09/2026

The Kremlin has been cultivating a network of foreign media outlets and a global cadre of Russia-trained journalists to shape global narratives for years to come. Here's map of their activities around the world. experience.arcgis.com/experience/4...

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 09/09/2026

Q: Who is voting for the far-right Alternative for Germany? A: People who fear the future, wishing for a world that was. But they too will learn (too late) that the past was never as great as they remembered. www.ft.com/content/ef6d...

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 09/09/2026

AfD has a gender and age gap: - Men consistently show a higher % of votes for the party than women in every single age category. - Support for the party is highest among middle-aged voters, specifically the 35–44 & 45–59 age brackets for both sexes. But so far, that hasn't stop their rise.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 07/09/2026

What if Xi had posted something like this but covering most of Asia, including Australia?

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 05/09/2026

I’ve always loved Tetris, but I love it even more now. The fact that Tetris has issued an anti-fascist statement is a testament to the company’s moral courage and strength. 👏

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 30/08/2026

This post explains why we have long had reservations about misinformation laws worldwide. The post is chilling in its brazenness and disdain for the First Amendment.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 30/08/2026

And for the super busy folks, here is the TLDR video with highlights from our Deepfakes Tracker Research Portal deepfakestracker.org

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 30/08/2026

It's Lake Ontario, buddy! It was Lake Ontario long before the US or Canada were even countries. And it will remain Lake Ontario long after Trump is gone.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 28/08/2026

Stockholm was fun, but it's always nice to be home again. 😍

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 27/08/2026

Thank you to our colleagues at the Swedish Defence University for graciously hosting us this wk. While our work largely focuses on social media, the rapidly changing world inevitably brings our fields closer together. We greatly value the opportunity to exchange perspectives & learn from each other.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 24/08/2026

And there it is: Trump is going after Ontario's car industry. "On January First, 2027, Tariffs on all Cars, Trucks, both large and small, Automotive Parts, and Steel, will be increased to 50%. Build in the U.S., and there are ZERO TARIFFS. Canada will be treated like a State no longer!"

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 23/08/2026

You wouldn’t know it from the number of posts I shared today, but I did step away long enough to celebrate 🥳 my birthday around beautiful Stockholm, Sweden. The world may be topsy-turvy, so keep perspective, cherish the good stuff, and always leave room for a little joy and sparkle.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 23/08/2026

As neighbors, Canadians are keen observers of the US. We know more about Americans than Americans knows about us. Here's a key part of Marc Carney speech yesterday that's was gloss over by msm.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 22/08/2026

Quebec and British Columbia will be hit the hardest. "Proportion of exports to the U.S. under tariff threat, based on 2025 trade values." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 21/08/2026

I stumbled upon this wonderful little marching band in Stockholm yesterday. A beautiful moment, though I hope it remains rare in Europe. Here’s to music filling our streets, not the drums of war.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 20/08/2026

"In many countries, the U.S.-China favorability gap has reversed in recent years."

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 19/08/2026

Proving yet again that “Democrats can’t meme”: their leadership is too earnest, too self-serious, and too eager to sideline or shush anyone who tries.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 19/08/2026

Does anyone know what "Digital trade alignment" is referring to?

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 13/08/2026

It’s 10:50 a.m. in the UK right now. Polls don’t close until 10 p.m., and people are still voting. The LLM Bluesky is using is obviously wrong to claim that Farage has won the election. @aaron.bsky.team, you all might want to take a look.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 03/08/2026

Of course, Western AI models are not any better. It all comes down to who you want to accompany you down the rabbit hole. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t... As I have noted before, this is not just about technology. It's about power, getting it and keeping it.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 03/08/2026

Q: Is China encroaching on the Philippines' territory in the South China Sea? Gwen’s answer is actually quite diplomatic. That said, there’s no question that Chinese AI models tend to align closely with the official party line.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 03/08/2026

We’ve loaded a couple of open-source Chinese AI models onto a server in the lab. If you have ideas for prompts you’d like us to test, send them our way. I’ll run a few through the models and share the results.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 03/08/2026

Question: Tell me what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989. Here are the answers from two popular open-source Chinese AI models.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 31/07/2026

You just missed your chance to try that new Google Earth feature that everyone has been talking about. As predicted, Google has decided (for now) to roll back this new feature.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 30/07/2026

Lol... They literally add a button "seems like AI slop" 🤣

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 26/07/2026

I have been growing my own lettuces & herbs for years.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 26/07/2026

I’m currently travelling through southern Europe, and for the first time, wildfire maps have become my travel guide. Before choosing a day trip, I check where the fires are first. #newnormal

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 20/07/2026

Spain chose peace, pixels, and proper framing. ✂️When someone mistakes a team photo for a personal photo op, a little quality control goes a long way. They didn't edit history; they improved the composition.👏

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 19/07/2026

Join Our Research Team! @SMLabTO is Hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow socialmedialab.ca/2026/07/14/p... #phdsky #academicsky #comsky #polsky #computationalsocialscience

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 18/07/2026

It's not AI... "Hot weather, long-term drought, the topography of the area and narrow streets have made extinguishing the fire difficult." A huge fire in Krokstadelva, west of Oslo, took out a few hundred homes tonight. Hopefully no one was hurt. #newnormal www.nrk.no/norge/katast...

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 18/07/2026

Wildfire smoke forecast for the Midwest and northern U.S. www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 14/07/2026

If you have the opportunity after the #SMSociety conference, take some time to explore Glasgow, a city with a rich history of innovation that has helped shape the modern world.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 12/07/2026

Lol... It feels like a deleted scene from a terrible '80s comedy: Republicans scrambling to provide a proof-of-life photo, complete with a conveniently displayed newspaper, so nobody thinks this has turned into Weekend at Bernie's. Is America still governable at this point? #gerontocracy

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 11/07/2026

America's diplomacy is now just a series of empty threats. The Iranians know he can't invade or use nukes before midterms. So now we are left with posts like this.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 07/07/2026

Only 11%of the 2.2+ million Community Notes currently available on X are visible to users of the platform. The other 89% awaits a quiet death. notetracker.socialmedialab.ca

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