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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 23/07/2026

BBC can now subpoena Trump’s closest advisers and investigate the more than 400 companies owned by Trump’s family trust. trib.al/oVqwpnL

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 07/05/2026

‘Nothing good can happen democratically if people have nothing to leave their homes for, and no places to meet when they do. Covid and its aftermath have dramatically worsened this problem.’ @will-davies.bsky.social on hyperpolitics. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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William Davies · Easy to Join, Easy to Leave: Politics on Speed

This is what distinguishes hyperpolitics from the mass democracy of the mid-20th century. Symbolic political gestures...

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 25/04/2026

Ever wondered what's really going on with this particular genus of the pseudo event? Had an interesting and lively interview with @estheraddley.bsky.social for her piece. Always love this kind of analysis. Funny AND serious. Lots of examples. Takes a good journalist to convey it in this way.

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 22/01/2026

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.

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 27/01/2026

I helped @victorrlopz.bsky.social with this report (for a Spanish readership) on the UK Greens' online strategy, which is proving effective.

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Mike Wendling @wendling.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

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...

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Amelia: The far-right’s new waifu thirst trap mascot

Alt-right types mock a cringey online game and deny they're extremists... while posting racist memes exhorting men to do violence

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Domino Recording Company @dominorecordco.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 22/01/2026

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 21/01/2026

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.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Acting against X and Musk looks like the biggest open goal for Keir Starmer it's possible to imagine

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Loughborough University PR @lboropr.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

"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

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What would happen if the UK government actually banned Grok and X?

Keir Starmer's government has hinted a UK ban on X isn't out of the question. Experts tell us what a ban would look like in reality.

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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

🚨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...

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The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics

Across democratic systems, ideological cleavages increasingly emerge not only between but also within political parties. At the same time, hyperpartisan and digitally networked media ecosystems amp...

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 24/12/2025

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.

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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...

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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.”

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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."

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Commission fines X €120 million under the Digital Services Act

Today, the Commission has issued a fine of €120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

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Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Dame Sara Khan, former govt adviser on social cohesion, responds to my story and also calls on the government to leave X 👇

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 11/11/2025

14/ Summary article on Cristian's blog: cristianvaccari.com/2023/01/10/n... Summary article on my blog: www.andrewchadwick.com/blog/2022/12...

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 11/11/2025

13/ It has important implications. Do we really want radically weakened public service media organizations?

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 11/11/2025

12/ We call this the “campaign disinformation divide”—between getting news from professional journalistic organizations and news from social media.

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 11/11/2025

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.

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 11/11/2025

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.

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 11/11/2025

9/ These differences also shaped the intention to share true versus false news.

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 11/11/2025

8/ Conversely, the more that respondents used social media for campaign news, the less they were able to distinguish true from false information.

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 11/11/2025

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.

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 11/11/2025

6/ We used two surveys of samples mirroring the adult population (total 4,018).

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 11/11/2025

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.

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 11/11/2025

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.

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 11/11/2025

3/ Cristian Vaccari, Johannes Kaiser, and I (fairly) recently published a study in the journal Political Communication.

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 11/11/2025

2/ Here's one bit of evidence.

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 11/11/2025

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.

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Piotr Marczyński @piotrmarczynski.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Excited to share that, with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social , we’ve published a new article in New Media & Society! We examine how far-right actors on X (formerly Twitter) instrumentalize wellness culture to spread reactionary ideology. Thread below 🧵

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The wellness pipeline: Tracing far-right health narratives on X - Piotr Marczyński, Catherine Tebaldi, 2025

This article examines how far-right groups advance political agendas through digital platforms, specifically by embedding reactionary ideology within health and...

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 23/10/2025

... we're heading to another one of those all-too-familiar moments when we collectively reflect on how we were once promised a shiny future that didn't transpire. And that's putting aside for a moment the environmental costs, which could be considerable.

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 23/10/2025

I have to say... I hope that so-called "AI-powered" browsers really do develop into something genuinely agentic and therefore useful for everyday work and leisure. But having watched the OpenAI Atlas demo video, it's starting to feel like...

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 17/10/2025

The latest illustration of a key point often forgotten by the platforms: experiences of AI will never be universal or monolithic and will always be shaped by social inequalities and preexisting vulnerabilities of many different kinds www.wsj.com/tech/ai/teen...

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Teen Sues Maker of Fake-Nude Software

There is a growing concern over AI sites that generate fabricated naked photos of minors and nonconsenting adults.

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Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I am very honoured to be awarded the Simon Fraser University's Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy On behalf of all of my colleagues @citizenlab.ca and our partners around the world thank you for this recognition of our work youtu.be/41wkXFyEsP8?...

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2025 SFU Sterling Prize recipient Ronald J. Deibert protects privacy in the age of cyber espionage

YouTube video by Simon Fraser University

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

NEW: Last month Trump and RFK Jr announced the FDA was was recommending a new drug to treat autism — leucovorin But they failed to provide any more information. So parents flocked to a Facebook group, that quickly filled with chaos, confusion and conspiracies www.wired.com/story/chaos-...

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Chaos, Confusion, and Conspiracies: Inside a Facebook Group for RFK Jr’s Autism ‘Cure’

A Facebook group set up to share information about leucovorin has been spammed by affiliate links and supplement companies trying to shame parents of autistic kids.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The new EU rules on political advertising online take effect October 10. Google and Meta (FB, Insta) will stop political ads on their platforms 🛑 But when??? FB is now very explicit about when it takes effect: October 6 www.facebook.com/business/hel...

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Good mentoring can break down class barriers: an open approach to knowledge and a kind, enabling manner helps students go their own way but never feel alone, says Andrew Chadwick ow.ly/H8H650X4lsq

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Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 01/10/2025

My PhD supervisor, Professor Rodney Barker, who had a long and distinguished career at LSE, died recently. Last week I wrote an article for @timeshighered.bsky.social reflecting on the transformational influence of his mentoring style. It's out today www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/good...

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Good mentoring can break down class barriers – and I should know

An open approach to knowledge and a kind, enabling manner help students go their own way but never feel alone, says Andrew Chadwick

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Sum: pseudoscience, lies, and fearmongering nonsense. Those with a science background - Makary, Bhattacharya, Oz, etc - MUST know this is harmful BS. They MUST know they are enabling authoritarian BS. Integrity black hole. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Trump attacks Tylenol as officials unveil highly contentious conclusions on autism

President says acetaminophen – also known as paracetamol - increases risk when taken by pregnant women, assertion contradicted by research

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