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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A project we worked very hard for, now come to life : ccf-project.ca Follow our account for a daily account of Canadian climate news

ccf-project.ca

Canadian Climate Framing

A scientific, longitudinal and live observatory of climate discourse in the media across Canada.

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Tristan Boursier @drusdans.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Notre étude à la une de The Conversation ! @antoinelemor.bsky.social @cevipof.bsky.social

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Tristan Boursier @drusdans.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

On parle beaucoup de bataille culturelle ces derniers temps. Je préfère toutefois le terme de métapolitique, notamment parce qu’il s’agit bien un phénomène politique. Ce n’est pas juste une confrontation d’idées, mais une stratégie visant l’hégémonie politique. blogs.mediapart.fr/tristan-bour...

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Faire de la politique sans le dire : la métapolitique

Podcasts sur la séduction, parc de loisirs sur l'histoire de France, nostalgie des terroirs, TikToks de femmes au foyer : la politique se joue là où elle prétend être absente. La métapolitique désign…

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Une chance de faire de la recherche, chaque jour renouvelée, et qui j'espère se poursuivra ! 6/6

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

J'ai aussi co-organisé avec Camille Arteau-Leclerc, Adrien Cloutier, Thierry Giasson, Manuel Quintin, et bien d'autre un panel sur l'IA et les méthodes computationnelles où j'ai présenté un autre projet issu de notre projet CCF ac Alizée Pillod & Matthew Taylor antoinelemor.com/blog/2026/sq... 5/6

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

En plus des grandes retrouvailles, dans le panel organisé par Carole Clavier, Olivier Jacques, Elisabeth Martin, Emna Ben Jelili, j'ai présenté une recherche computationnelle sur la crédibilité des agences de santé publique : antoinelemor.com/blog/2026/sq... 4/6

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

... Une semaine pleine de gratitude, coupable d'un peu de timidité, mais porteuse de beaucoup de reconnaissance. C'est une très grande chance de faire de la recherche et de pouvoir en vivre, et de recevoir un prix pour cela. 3/6

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

... la chance d'être leurs collègues, ou ami, dont Eric Montpetit, et sans qui cette thèse n'aurait pas aboutie. La semaine dernière j'étais donc au Congrès de la SQSP et aux grandes retrouvailles de @sciencepo-udem.bsky.social où j'ai reçu ce prix des mains de Serge Marcoux que je remercie. ... 2/6

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Au bout de ces couloirs que j'ai fréquentés pendant 5 ans à @umontreal.ca s'est trouvé le Prix de la meilleure thèse de @sciencepo-udem.bsky.social. Une grande gratitude, moins pour le prix que pour toutes celles/ceux qui m'ont donné dans ces couloirs ... 1/6

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Eddie Yang @eddieyang.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Stimulante conversation en effet!

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Bryan Jones @alongcamejones.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Can our systems be adapted to AI challenges? Or rather human manipulation of such systems of information? Would current models suffice to capture added “information”? Probably, but policy process studies are in their infancies.

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

At the end of the day, the whole point is that we may have to update our theories to account for these changes, and maybe in a way we don't like that much : empirically *and* normatively. Maybe information *should* originate in humans, and theories should acknowledge that. Human agency over machines

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

And on the output side, the Dutch government literally resigned over an algorithm nobody could fully account for (illegible decisions). It seems policymakers and citizens alike are caught in a feedback loop where problems are related to machines. www.politico.eu/article/dutc...

politico.eu

Dutch scandal serves as a warning for Europe over risks of using algorithms

The Dutch tax authority ruined thousands of lives after using an algorithm to spot suspected benefits fraud — and critics say there is little stopping it from happening again.

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

On the input side, "it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots." In this case, how priors "transmit" to policymakers ? If we can't certify that, how do we know priors reaching policymakers are genuine at all? Illegible priors bsky.app/profile/josh...

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Priors are stubborn. But how do "priors transmit" collectively without reliable information? Without any human certification of what is real? And from an epistemological standpoint: isn't the whole point of the policy process to respond to priors through reliable, human-grounded information?

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

On the input side: signals can now be manufactured quite easily. On the output side: decisions are increasingly delegated to algorithms actors themselves don't understand (the Dutch childcare case, Parcoursup in France, risk-scoring systems ; in short, incresing system/screen-level bureaucracies)

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Our theories (and policy processes) assume we can trace the causal chain: a problem is signaled; institutions process it; a decision is made. Theoretical coherence (and legitimacy of the PP) both depend on that traceability. That assumption won't hold much longer to me.

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Thank you @alongcamejones.bsky.social! I'd push further though. The deeper issue may not be about power dynamics, but about the whole policy process legibility (for citizens and policymakers alike).

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I would be genuinely glad to engage in an honest disciplinary conversation on this. I think it is time we stop looking away. In my mother tongue, we have a saying: "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." Let us make sure that proverb does not become our discipline's defining motto. 7/7

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Produced by a company called CiviClick. Policy decisions are already beginning to respond to machines rather than to humans. In response, in my article I propose a new framework, or at least new theoretical boundaries, designed to strengthen the epistemological foundations of our theories. 6/7

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

By every conventional standard, this decision should be a textbook case of public policy responding to democratic signals. There was only one problem. Those comments were manufactured, produced by LLMs. 5/7 www.latimes.com/environment/...

latimes.com

Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after flood of comments from AI-powered platform

SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

In June 2025, a California air quality board voted 7 to 5 to reject anti-pollution rules that would have prevented approximately 2,500 premature deaths. The board had received over 20,000 citizen comments opposing the proposal. 4/7

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

If we are truly honest, can we still claim our theories are valid? In my view, if we do not rebuild our theories for the age of machines, they will die. In a new article available as a preprint, I use agenda-setting as a case study to show that our theories are already dying. 3/7

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Not a day goes by without a new story about machines replacing what was previously the exclusive province of humans: writing and producing information. Yet public policy theories were built in a world where information production was a fundamentally human affair. That world no longer exists. 2/7

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Policy theories are facing an epistemological crisis. One would have to be blind not to see each day LLMs swallowing up our public sphere, that space where we are supposed to reason together and build a shared deliberative common ground: the foundation of policymaking. 1/7 🧵 doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Comment des #méthodes d’analyse textuelle peuvent-elles nous aider à mieux comprendre le discours de #démission de F. #Legault ? Je publie dans @ledevoir.com une analyse disponible ici de façon interactive : antoinelemor.github.io/assets/prese... www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...

ledevoir.com

Legault démissionne et offre un discours de bilan plus que de départ

Manifestement, le chef de la CAQ visait surtout à protéger son héritage et celui de son parti.

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

3/5 ⚖️ 6 justifications for resigning vs 99 defending his record 🏛️ Dominant theme: party politics (24 mentions), ahead of healthcare (15) and economy (13). He talks more about his party than public policy.

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

2/5 📈 72% of the speech dedicated to his legacy This isn't a resignation speech. It's a legacy speech. Legault explains less than he defends.

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

On tone: 51% pragmatic + confident, only 7% alarmist. Combative peaks (12%) are targeted and reserved for defense and sovereignty issues. 7/9

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

On policy content: focus on diplomatic method (24%) rather than concrete measures (3%). The "how" of negotiating matters more than the "what". 6/9

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

On France's positioning: 85% agency score. France presented as active agent (46%), partner (23%), leader (8%). Victim in only 3% of cases. 5/9

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

On sentiment toward key actors: explicit European anchoring. France (+0.67) and Europe (+0.51) positive. US slightly negative (-0.06), China clearly negative (-0.42). Ukraine and India = preferred partners (+0.75). Russia? Barely mentioned. 4/9

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

On worldview: Geopolitical Anxiety Index of +0.08. Neither catastrophist nor triumphalist. 61% of geopolitical frames emphasize opportunities, 39% threats. 3/9

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

On rhetorical structure: deliberate alternation between confident and alarmist registers. Almost symmetrical. Macron systematically balances threats and opportunities. A (very) controlled rhetorical pendulum. 2/9

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

On "us vs them" discourse: American entities → positive score (+0.39) Foreign entities → negative score (-0.53) A binary discourse that serves to justify an assumed regional interventionism. 6/9 antoinelemor.github.io/blog/2026/nl...

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Antoine Lemor | NLP-POL: Trump's Venezuela Press Conference — A Discourse Analysis

NLP analysis of Trump's press conference on Venezuela (January 3, 2026). Rhetorical posture, response patterns, thematic focus, and 'us vs them' discourse.

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Antoine Lemor @antoinelemor.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

On themes: journalists ask about governance, diplomacy, legal framework. Trump responds about oil and the economy. The operation is justified by resources, not by protecting populations. 4/9 antoinelemor.github.io/blog/2026/nl...

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Antoine Lemor | NLP-POL: Trump's Venezuela Press Conference — A Discourse Analysis

NLP analysis of Trump's press conference on Venezuela (January 3, 2026). Rhetorical posture, response patterns, thematic focus, and 'us vs them' discourse.

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EditionsScpo @editionsscpo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

« Une étude parue dans la "Revue française de science politique" décrit une pénétration "continue, progressive et transpartisane" des idées d’extrême droite dans les discours de politique générale des premiers ministres depuis les années 1970 » @lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

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