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Adrian Rauchfleisch

@adrauc.bsky.social
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Distinguished Professor @ National Taiwan University

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Adrian Rauchfleisch @adrauc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
📜 Preprint 📜 Since 2 Aug, Art. 50 of the EU #AIAct requires chatbots to disclose that they are AI. Does a label change anything? We @ajungherr.bsky.social ran a preregistered experiment with 1,500 UK adults & a persuasive chatbot. Answer: no. But there is a better way🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2608.117...
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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🖥️ Proliferation of AI use in government meets the principal-agent theory 🧾 @kunkakom.bsky.social, @ajungherr.bsky.social & @adrauc.bsky.social run a survey experiment to test citizens' perceived control 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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New Bloom @newbloommag.net · 30/07/2026
Check out the newest New Bloom Substack! Featuring our round-up of the latest events and recent articles!
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From Taipei, Taiwan: New Bloom Newsletter July 29, 2026
DAYBREAK Party! • newsletter handover • spying accusations • extraterritorial violence • diaspora traditions • budget cuts, again? • COVID surges • The Dull-Ice Flower
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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
New paper with @adrauc.bsky.social and @ajungherr.bsky.social, published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: How does the use of AI in government affect citizens’ sense of democratic control? Experimental evidence: greater efficiency can come with hidden legitimacy costs.
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Andreas Jungherr @ajungherr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Yesterday Anthropic released its new Claude model Fable. As widely and controversially discussed, Fable comes with strong guardrails, some visible to users, others less visible in their operation. This gives us a powerful preview of where the alignment of public AI models is headed.
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Andreas Jungherr @ajungherr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
In a recent paper, @adrauc.bsky.social and I analyze how people react to controversial adjustments of AI model output. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Andreas Jungherr @ajungherr.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
What do people think about AI-driven persuasion? In a new working paper with @adrauc.bsky.social, we show the hidden costs of attempts at automated opinion change in politics. arxiv.org/abs/2603.27413
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Andreas Jungherr @ajungherr.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Political campaigns worldwide experiment with AI. But how do people see different electoral uses of AI and with what consequences? In a new study in @polcommjournal.bsky.social with @adrauc.bsky.social and @kunkakom.bsky.social, we address these questions. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/
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Studies in Communication and Media (SCM) @scmeditor.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Public support for #DeepfakeRegulation: In an online survey, @dnvglr.bsky.social, @adrauc.bsky.social and @notsaved.bsky.social explored presumed effects, perceived risk and trust in institutions regarding deepfakes of Swiss citizens. doi.org/10.5771/2192...
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
third part in @dnvglr.bsky.social, @adrauc.bsky.social & me's deepfake study, this on risk perception and regulation support doi.org/10.5771/2192...
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SCM Studies in Communication and Media
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Andreas Jungherr @ajungherr.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
📢 New paper out! What do people want from AI systems? How should outputs be adjusted? And how do views differ between countries? @adrauc.bsky.social and I explore this for @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social in Public Opinion on the Politics of AI Alignment. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Andreas Jungherr @ajungherr.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
New paper in Telematics and Informatics with @adrauc.bsky.social, Joshua Philip Suarez, Nikka Marie Sales: Winning and losing with Artificial Intelligence: What public discourse about ChatGPT tells us about how societies make sense of technological change.
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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 16/10/2025
Started the day at the #AoIR2025 conference with a great panel on the challenges of using LLMs in computational communication research, also featuring several excellent @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleagues. Liveblog here:
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AoIR 2025 | Snurblog — Axel Bruns
Association of Internet Researchers conference, Niterói, 15-18 Oct. 2025.
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Christian Pieter Hoffmann @cphoffmann.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
📢 New publication on the positioning of executives on LinkedIn. We analyze more than 4'500 posts of CEOs and CEOs of EURO STOXX 50 companies and find distinct communicator profiles (re. content, timing, frequency, audiences and engagement). 🔗 www.emerald.com/ccij/article...
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Andreas Jungherr @ajungherr.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🧵 New publication: How do people feel about regulating #AI in election campaigns? 🧵 In a new article, @adrauc.bsky.social, @kunkakom.bsky.social, and I examine when and why people support stronger AI regulation in political competition. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 👇
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Explaining public preferences for regulating Artificial Intelligence in election campaigns: Evidence from the U.S. and Taiwan
The increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in election campaigns, such as AI-generated political ads, automated messaging, and the widespread …
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Andreas Jungherr @ajungherr.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
📢 New Journal Article: AI & Deliberation 📢 What impact does #AI have on democratic deliberation? Together with @adrauc.bsky.social, I explore this question in a new article in Government Information Quarterly. Findings in the thread 🧵👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (1/7)
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Artificial Intelligence in deliberation: The AI penalty and the emergence of a new deliberative divide
Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) promise help for democratic deliberation, such as processing information, moderating discussion, and fact-che…
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
More governments may turn to AI and algorithms for processing tax returns and screening public benefits applications - but a survey shows this risks eroding trust in government and citizens' feelings of democratic control. 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2488...
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How government use of AI could hurt democracy
Countries are eager to use AI to automate some government processes, but this risks eroding citizens’ trust and feelings of democratic control – because AI mistakes can ruin their lives
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Andreas Jungherr @ajungherr.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🧵1/ In a new working paper with @kunkakom.bsky.social & @adrauc.bsky.social, we examine how people feel about AI use by governments. We find an unsettling tension: information about AI-driven efficiency gains boosts trust – but makes people feel less in control. arxiv.org/abs/2505.01085
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Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
New paper: What increases people’s support for policy responses to #climate #change? ✊ We find: It’s not necessarily firsthand experience of extreme weather events. Instead, it’s whether people think that these events are linked to climate change. Here is the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔎
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Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world - Nature Climate Change
Literature produced inconsistent findings regarding the links between extreme weather events and climate policy support across regions, populations and events. This global study offers a holistic asse...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"Our results suggest that a social media message would have to be sent by more than 47 constituents for it to exceed the value of a single face-to-face meeting." academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
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Voice and Value: How Elected Officials Evaluate Online and Offline Constituent Feedback
Abstract. Social media has made it easier than ever for citizens to voice their opinion to their elected representatives. However, officials may infer that
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Andreas Jungherr @ajungherr.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
What do people want from AI moderation? 🚨 New Working Paper with @adrauc.bsky.social: What do people expect from Artificial Intelligence? 📊 Public attitudes on AI alignment in 🇩🇪 Germany and 🇺🇸 the U.S. [Link to paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.124... 🧵 A short summary of what we found – and why it matters:
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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Using Principal-Agent Theory, our new paper argues delegating governmental tasks to #AI undermines feelings of being in control, leading to a "failure-by-success": Initial AI efficiency drives wider adoption, ultimately eroding citizens' sense of control, a cornerstone of democratic legitimacy
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I'm calling for a total and complete shutdown of JAMA Pediatrics until we can figure out what is going on goodscience.substack.com/p/the-resear... I mean, come ON
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Adrienne Fichter @adfichter.eurosky.social · 28/04/2025
Zürcher Forschende haben im Reddit-Forum ChangeMyView KI-Bots für ein unethisches Experiment eingeschleust. Darunter fiktive Personas, wie ein Vergewaltigungsopfer. Dies ohne Moderatoren und Community zu informieren. Reddit-User wurden getäuscht. Forscher:innen sind entsetzt⬇️ dnip.ch/2025/04/28/r...
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Reddit-User mit KI-Bots getäuscht- das fragwürdige Experiment der Universität Zürich - Das Netz ist politisch
Dank den Hinweisen von mehreren aufmerksamen DNIP-Lesern haben wir von einem spannenden Fall am Wochenende erfahren:
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
We are trying to help! @sarahagilbert.bsky.social @michaelzimmer.bsky.social @profprof.bsky.social Naiyan Jones and I published a paper earlier this year about research ethics for Reddit that includes discussion of e.g. possible community harms. cfiesler.medium.com/how-to-remem...
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How to remember the human: Recommendations for ethical Reddit research
The first rule of etiquette on the social platform Reddit is “Remember the human.” This rule should apply to researchers, too.
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm. Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/03/2025
New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...
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Reviewer notes: That’s a very nice mediation analysis you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.
Mediation analysis has gotten a lot of flak, including classic titles such as “Yes, but what’s the mechanism? (Don’t expect an easy answer)” (Bullock et al., 2010), “What mediation analysis can (not) ...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This letter is a direct attack on the independence of American universities. Literally seeks to use government power to dictate how private universities are organized and operated.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
My first strike ever. I have joined demonstrations before. But Monday I will be on strike. As part of the national series of strikes across the country @woinactie.bsky.social Against draconian, shortsighted cuts to research and higher education 🟥 Hopefully joined by many @uva.nl colleagues.
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Andreas Jungherr @ajungherr.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
📢 Neues Working Paper: KI & Deliberation 📢 Welche Rolle spielt Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) bei demokratischen Diskussionen? Zusammen mit @adrauc.bsky.social habe ich diese Frage untersucht. arxiv.org/abs/2503.07690 Ergebnisse im Thread 🧵👇 (1/7)
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Artificial Intelligence in Deliberation: The AI Penalty and the Emergence of a New Deliberative Divide
Digital deliberation has expanded democratic participation, yet challenges remain. This includes processing information at scale, moderating discussions, fact-checking, or attracting people to partici...
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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 28/02/2025
Losing $30 billion to trigger the libs.
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
The process of making the chart was recorded as a gif using {camcorder} in #RStats 📹
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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
So massive swaths of social media prioritized right-wing content in the run-up to elections, incl Musk supporting the AfD, yet it looks like results for AfD are not higher than predicted. I’m no expert on elections but wondering what that tells us about limits of direct social media influence?
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Wrote Scientific Reports February 8 2024 that a newly published meta-analysis on mindfulness & brain morphology excluded all null-findings and therefore ... by definition found a relationship. Still no proper response from the journal (other then many "we'll look into it"). It's been a year now.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
In case you’re wondering what the TikTok kids have been up to
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Hostile Government Takeover (EDM Remix) by AGiftFromTodd & Vinny Marchi on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 2:39
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Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Reviewing a paper for a journal, and whoever compiled this scale.... And this is returned to the authors! I really did not like the paper, but "dreadful" or "useless"?.. is not something I want to send to the authors...
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New Bloom @newbloommag.net · 17/02/2025
Friday! Join us for a joint book talk with Wen Liu, speaking about Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility Between Assimilation and Oppression, and @brianhioe.bsky.social, speaking about Taipei at Daybreak! www.facebook.com/events/63655...
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Film stills from the shooting of an alternate ending of #IntheMoodforLove (2000) - with Tony and Maggie reuniting in Angkor Wat. #花樣年華 #張曼玉 #梁朝偉 #王家衛
Maggie Cheung in blurred foreground, Tony Leung in background, holding camera - alternate scenes of the ending of In the Mood for Love, shot on location at Angkor WatMaggie Cheung in blurred foreground, Tony Leung in background, holding camera - alternate scenes of the ending of In the Mood for Love, shot on location at Angkor WatMaggie Cheung in foreground, Tony Leung in background, holding camera - alternate scenes of the ending of In the Mood for Love, shot on location at Angkor WatMaggie Cheung's bacl in blurred foreground, Tony Leung in background, holding camera - alternate scenes of the ending of In the Mood for Love, shot on location at Angkor Wat
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Deadline in two days: Guarini Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Politics 2025-27 @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social apply.interfolio.com/160584 (quantitative focus) Please apply and share widely!
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Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Everyone hates workplace communication and social networking tools, right? Except... they might actually be good. My latest for @fastcompany.com on a new study www.fastcompany.com/91277631/tho...
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Those workplace communication tools you hate might actually be good for you
A new study suggests that much-maligned enterprise social media platforms can help strengthen connections at work—even if we find them tedious.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/02/2025
On Wednesday, an unprecedented memo from the International Asteroid Warning Network reached government officials. The memo said “Asteroid 2024 YR4,” first detected in late December, might hit our planet on Dec. 22, 2032.
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Newly detected near-Earth asteroid has astronomers’ full attention
The risk of impact is likely drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.
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Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🌺🌞🍃 @mzloteanu.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
the mvbind() trick in {brms} is great for obtaining a (mostly) Bayesian partial monotonic correlation (Spearman-like) [code in alt text]
### Bayesian "Spearman" Partial Correlation Script ###
# Load and set env
library(brms)
library(bayestestR)
options(mc.cores = parallel::detectCores(logical = FALSE))
set.seed(42)

# Generate some data
n <- 1000
z <- rnorm(n)
x <- 0.7 * z + rnorm(n)
y <- 0.3 * z + 0.5 * x + rnorm(n)

# Function to compute Bayesian Spearman correlation
bayesian_spearman_mv <- function(x, y, z) {
  # Convert to ranks
  dat <- data.frame(
    x_rank = rank(x),
    y_rank = rank(y),
    z_rank = rank(z)
  )
  
  # Use the mvbind() trick
  mv_formula <- bf(mvbind(x_rank, y_rank) ~ z_rank) + set_rescor(TRUE)
  
  # Model
  model <- brm(
    mv_formula,
    data = dat,
    backend = "cmdstanr",
    silent = 2
  )
  
  return(model)
}

# Run function
mv_model <- bayesian_spearman_mv(x, y, z)

### Correlation estimate and CIs w/ describe_posterior()
post <- as_draws_df(mv_model)
rescor <- post$rescor__xrank__yrank
posterior_df <- data.frame(rescor = rescor)
describe_posterior(rescor, centrality = "mean", ci = 0.95)
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martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I recently spoke with A Martínez from @npr.org Morning Edition about political influencers and our shifting media ecology - audio & transcript out today and linked here ⬇️ www.npr.org/2024/12/04/n...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Why economists need to review the preregistration!* This is a hot mess; hard to believe it's in the QJE datacolada.org/122 * docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Also note that, thanks to Musk, Meta didn’t have to test the waters at all before today’s announcement. He showed them the path. Expect even more to follow.
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Heesoo Jang @heesoojang.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I was preparing to pitch an op-ed on the nationwide protests calling for President Yoon's resignation, aiming to provide global context amid the limited international coverage. Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy
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South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know
Last updated December 3, 10:09 AM South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know Heesoo Jang Assistant Professor of Media Law and Ethics Journalism Department, University of...
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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I know it's hard for Western countries to look to the rest of the world as role models for anything, but damn, Western politicians could really learn a thing or two from South Koreans about going all in to defend democracy (specifically thinking of Germany & the US rn, but I'm sure there's more)
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