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Anna-Theresa Mayer

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PhD candidate in the 'Digital News Dynamics' RG @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social | Interested in journalism, news & public value on social media

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Jakob Ohme @dscheykopp.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
It’s not a privilege, it’s a researchers right! #DSA40 @lkseiling.bsky.social and I summarize what the European Commission decision in their case against X (I feel we should follow John Oliver and from now on call it Twitter again) means for researchers right to platform data access [in German]
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Wer hat schon Vorfreude auf den #39c3 POWER CYCLES? Das Weizenbaum-Institut ist auch wieder dabei! Unsere Wissenschaftler:innen @rainer-rehak.mastodon.bits-und-baeume.org.ap.brid.gy, @lkseiling.bsky.social, Ann Katzinski und Marlene Kulla haben Vorträge und Workshops im Gepäck 👉
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Weizenbaum Institut goes 39c3
Ende Dezember findet der 39. Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg statt. Auch Weizenbaum Wissenschaftler:innen sind wieder mit Vorträgen und Workshops dabei.
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Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
SPECIAL ISSUE CfP! Submit abstracts to Digital Journalism’s latest Special Issue on "Operationalising the Audiovisual Turn in Digital Journalism." 🗓️Deadline for abstracts: April 16, 2026. More info at:🔗 drive.google.com/file/d/1C-sA...
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CSS Lab, LMU Munich @css-lmu.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
🚀 We’re hiring a Postdoc! Our group is looking for a Postdoc to join the team working on computational comm research. If you’re excited about automated content analysis, large text & social-media data, open science, this might be for you. 💡 Sounds like you or someone you know? Please share/boost!
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Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
📣 Job alert! 📣 For my Emmy Noether group on local digital public spheres, I'm hiring 3 predoc research associates who are interested in doing qualitative/mixed-methods research on local communication environments. Apply until 02 Jan 2026! www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...
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3 research associates in social science (m/w/d)
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Roland Toth @tothrol.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
🚨 Publication alert (CHBR): Together with colleagues from the University of Navarra, I investigated what role the quality of mobile media use (gratification and situation variety) plays when measured alongside screen time. Result: quality may be more important than quantity. doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...
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icajsd.bsky.social @icajsd.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS: 12th Journalism Studies PhD Colloquium at #ICA26! 🇿🇦 Submit your abstract for the event happening on 📅 June 3. ✅ Individualized feedback on your thesis or article ✅ Mentorship from senior scholars ✅ Career & publishing workshops
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Anna-Theresa Mayer @atmayer.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Super excited to see my first solo-authored publication out!✨ Thank you so much to the interviewees, the anonymous reviewers, and the (special issue) editors (@sarahsoutlook.bsky.social, Karoline Ihlebæk, @annikasehl.bsky.social, and @oscarwestlund.bsky.social) for their time and valuable input 🙏🏻
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
🗞️ At the Weizenbaum Institute today: workshop “What is News? Platforms, Audiences & Algorithms.” With colleagues from the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social, we’re exploring how societies get informed in the digital age. Plus a hybrid lunch talk on how changing ideas of “news” may reshape journalism.
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🤖 📚 Wie viel #KI braucht die #Schule? Lieber ganz verbieten oder das beste dabei rausholen? Das diskutieren wir nächsten Dienstag (18.11.) bei der Weizenbaum Debate in Berlin mit Wissenschaft, Politik und Zivilgesellschaft. Jetzt anmelden 👉 buff.ly/7jcpppQ
"KI ist kein Ersatz für eine Lehrkraft. Es kann aber für Lehrkräfte ein Unterstützungswerkzeug darstellen, das dabei hilft, der Vielfalt, beispielsweise Lerngeschwindigkeit, sprachlichen Voraussetzungen oder der Neurodiversität im  Klassenraum zu  begegnen.” Jana Gonnermann-Müller, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Weizenbaum-InstitutWeizenbaum Debate: KI gehört ins Klassenzimmer! 18.11.2025, 18:00 - 22:00, Friedrichstadt-Palast Souterrain (QCC)
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Jakob Ohme @dscheykopp.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
On last day of #aoir2025 @lionw.bsky.social presents our @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social work on TikTok data donation from the 2025 German Federal Election - only 5% of content was political and the Left party could capitalize most in reaching voters of other parties with their content on TT.
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Lion Wedel @lionw.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
#DigitalNewsDynamics research group present #datadonationsymposium2025 @lkseiling.bsky.social and Quentin Bukold on an Ontology for digital trace data, me on data donation behavior, and @dscheykopp.bsky.social on our experience with #deinfeeddeinewahl.
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Out now: Our latest Policy Paper dives into the key provisions of the Digital Services Act #DSA on data access, highlighting its goals, procedures, limits, & external factors impacting implementation: 🔗 doi.org/10.34669/WI....
Cover: LK Seiling, Clara Iglesias Keller, Jakob Ohme, Ulrike Klinger, Claes de Vreese. Data Access for Researchers under the Digital Services Act: From Policy to Practice. Weizenbaum Policy Paper 15, September 2025.
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Roland Toth @tothrol.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
🚨 Wave 6 (2024) of the Weizenbaum Panel is now available in the Weizenbaum Panel Data Explorer. Check it out if you‘re interested in Germans‘ media use, political participation, civic norms, and more! panel.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/findings/...
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
"From Isolation to Extremism: Radicalization in the Manosphere." We spoke to @lionw.bsky.social & Linda Coufal about how extremist views take hold and spread within digital communities: 🔗 t1p.de/sqii5 #DigitalExtremism #OnlineHate #PlatformAccountability #Misogyny
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From Isolation to Extremism: Radicalization in the Manosphere
Together with his colleague Linda Coufal, Weizenbaum researcher Lion Wedel recently published two studies on the radicalization of Incels – a group known for its misogynistic views. We spoke to them a...
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DSA40 Data Access Collaboratory @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
For Tech Policy Press, the Collaboratory's core team and @claesdevreese.bsky.social outline key provisions, changes from the draft version, and stakeholder responsibilities clarified by the recently adopted delegated act on data access.
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DSA40 Data Access Collaboratory @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Wanna know what changed between the Draft of the Delegated Act on Research Data Access in the #DSA? We've aligned the relevant passages and just published the comparison on our website: dsa40collaboratory.eu/dda-da-compa... Data & code used are available on our github: github.com/access-colla...
A visual comparision between Recital 12 of the draft delegated act (DDA) and Recital 13 of the adopted version (DA), which cover the same content. Multiple highlights show text removed from the DDA in red, text added in the DA in green, and changes in references (e.g. article numbers and/or paragraph labels) in yellow.
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Ann-Kathrin Koster @annkoster.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Am 20./21.11.25 veranstalten wir am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social einen Workshop zum Thema "GenAI&Power". Wir freuen uns über Einreichungen, die eine theoretische & konzeptionelle Perspektive auf das Wechselverhältnis von GenAI&Macht werfen. Alle Infos zum Workshop finden sich im CfA:
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DSA40 Data Access Collaboratory @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
📢 Big news for platform researchers across Europe and beyond: Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.
dark blue background. on it, there is text saying "The Delegated Act on 40.4 DATA ACCESS is here", "Delegated Act on 40.4 DATA ACCESS" is yellow, the other text is white.
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Jakob Ohme @dscheykopp.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Do Alternative News users also use legacy media? Yes they do, shows a study by @gongbaobao.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social but a small fraction - around 1.3% of the German population - live in alternative news enclaves
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Jakob Ohme @dscheykopp.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
It’s a wrap! #ica25 ends for #DigitalNewsDynamics team @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social with presentation by Felix Gaisbauer, showing that the more people use alternative news media, the more they share them, but still have the highest fear of reputation loss as reason to not share alt news
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Marko Bachl @bachl.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Look at all these smart people from @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) and @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social. #ica25
IfPuK and WI team group pic
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Jakob Ohme @dscheykopp.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
At the 9am Sunday #ica25 panel, Felix Gaisbauer @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social presented work showing that news sharing on platforms in the German context is less fragmented and highly driven by intermediaries from the political right Find method preprint here: arxiv.org/html/2505.08...
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Jonathan Hendrickx @jonathanhendrickx.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Insanely proud of @atmayer.bsky.social and @maakesalonen.bsky.social who both gave excellent presentations on ongoing research projects at the intersection of TikTok and journalism, where I am very fortunate to be a part of! #ICA25
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Lion Wedel @lionw.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
@atmayer.bsky.social with another 🔥 presentation at #ica25 How do news values and visual representations of news differ between public and private news media on TikTok? Dataset paper on this out now! doi.org/10.1609/icws... with @jonathanhendrickx.bsky.social ! @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
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Lion Wedel @lionw.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
@atmayer.bsky.social rocking the stage at #ica25 . Presenting work on identifying (non-)intermediation practices of digital journalists on social media. #silentintermediation @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
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Jakob Ohme @dscheykopp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
📍Day 1 at #ICA25 for our Digital News Dynamics team: 🕛 12:00 | @lionw.bsky.social & Jakob Ohme 🧹 User Deletion & Data Quality in Data Donation Studies 📍 Capitol 3 🕒 15:00 | @atmayer.bsky.social , Lion Wedel, Jakob Ohme 🕸️ Journalistic Intermediation on Platforms 📍 Grays Peak A
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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
From text-as-data to sleep data collection, this year‘s #hackica25 in Boulder, CO, was a blast and we‘re proud to say that we‘ve (again) successfully hacked communication science. Thanks to all participants and see y‘all at #ica25 ✨
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Lion Wedel @lionw.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Felix Gaisbauer presenting first insights into political content suggested too and seen by actual German users around the German election earlier this year. Debunking assumptions of asymmetrical algorithmic curation on #tiktok in recent years. #WIConf2025 @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Axel Bruns @snurb.info talks at #WIConf2025 about #SocialMedia Practice Mapping in #ClimateChange debates in Australia, from climate policy advocates to the local fire departments.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Returning from second visit as @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Fellow. What a privilege to spend time with @dscheykopp.bsky.social’s group and the inspiring and friendly WI community (including the Berlin ‘staffel run’) 🏃🏼‍♀️ 🇩🇪 Honoured to deliver the Weizenbaum conference #WIConf2025 keynote 🎙️
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Platforms need to be researched on the risks they pose to society, like our civic discourse or our mental health. But the relationships between researchers, platforms and regulators are complicated. @lkseiling.bsky.social presenting their work on the #DSA at #WIConf2025
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
What is the role of digital infrastructures in the current challenges for liberal democracies?
What do they mean for vulnerable people, for activists and for democracy as a whole? The #WIConf25 offers insights into the latest Research with speakers from over 25 countries and multiple diciplines.
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Jakob Ohme @dscheykopp.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Taking place now: @claesdevreese.bsky.social giving the #WIConf2025 @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Keynote Speech on “Are we, citizens, ready for an AI democracy?”. Spoiler: we are not!
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Roland Toth @tothrol.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
🚨 Publication alert: Android log data are increasingly used in research, so @dougaparry.bsky.social and I have developed the first step-by-step tutorial on how to actually extract behavioral metrics from them. Read it now in Computational Communication Research: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
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Extracting Meaningful Measures of Smartphone Usage from Android Event Log Data: A Methodological Primer | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
As smartphones become increasingly integral to daily life, their importance for understanding human behavior will only continue to grow. Recognizing the potential of objective data on smartphone usage...
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
📢 Neue Publikation: Wie beeinflusst alltäglicher Social-Media-Konsum politische Einstellungen und Beteiligung? Damit befasst sich das neue Buch von WI-Forscherin Merja Mahrt in der gemeinsamen Publikationsreihe des Weizenbaum-Instituts mit @belapobi.bsky.social 🔗 tinyurl.com/2n98v964
Buchcover "Meinungsbildung und soziale Medien"
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Lion Wedel @lionw.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
New paper out! What impact had the first wave of COVID-19 lockdowns on radicalization processes in the incel community? Find out now, the answer may suprise you! -> doi.org/10.1177/1461...
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Empowering People in Online Spaces ✊🏼 📱 We're very excited about this amazing Weizenbaum Conference program 🤩 Here's the first batch of sessions focussing on Participation and Political Communication. #WIConf25 Find out more and register (for free) 👉 www.weizenbaum-conference.de
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LK Seiling @lkseiling.eurosky.social · 29/04/2025
Our #DSA40 Data Access Q&A is finally out! If you're still not sure what Art. 40 is about, we hope that our summary provides some clarity! Take a look - and let us know if we're missing something!
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Christian Strippel @strippel.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Am Dienstag, 15.4., 18 Uhr veröffentlichen wir den neuen Weizenbaum Report mit Ergebnissen unserer jüngsten Repräsentativbefragung zur politischen Partizipation in Deutschland. Es gibt einen Vortrag von mir und eine Podiumsdiskussion zu digitalen Bezahldiensten und neuen Risiken der Überschuldung.
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
✨ Join us on June 4 & 5, 2025 for the 7th Weizenbaum Conference “Empowering People in Online Spaces: Democracy and Well-being in Digital Societies” ✨ 👉 🔗 Register now: www.weizenbaum-conference.de #Democracy #Empowerment #Community #Power #DigitalResearch #WIConf25
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
📱 🪧 Wir stellen am 15. April mit dem Weizenbaum Report 2025 die neusten Zahlen zur politischen #Internetnutzung in Deutschland vor. Diskutiert mit uns über #PolitischePartizipation und #FinanzielleTeilhabe! ➡️ www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
As European leaders face pressure from the second Trump administration that is hostile to tech regulation, Jakob Ohme, LK Seiling, and Claes H. de Vreese write that Europe must protect the Digital Services Act (DSA) to ensure a democratic future, both online and offline:
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Jakob Ohme, LK Seiling, and Claes H. de Vreese write that European leaders must protect the DSA to ensure a democratic future.
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Das Weizenbaum -Institut auf der #dgpuk25: Beiträge der Forschenden @buehling.bsky.social @gongbaobao.bsky.social @strippel.bsky.social @mjemmer.bsky.social @dscheykopp.bsky.social @tothrol.bsky.social @claesdevreese.bsky.social Interessierte sind an unserem Infostand im Henry-Ford-Bau willkommen
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Calling all digital researchers and #OpenKnowlegde enthusiasts! Join us and @wikimediade.bsky.social at the conference "Who Owns Free Knowlege? Examining Power, Platformization, and the Promise of the Commons," April 10 in #Berlin. Details and Registration ➡️ buff.ly/41vueAT #AcademicSky
CONFERENCE: Who Owns Free Knowledge? Examining Power, Platformization, and the Promise of the Commons. Logo Weizenbaum Institute and Wikimedia Deutschland.
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Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New TikTok Content Scraper out there github.com/Q-Bukold/Tik...
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GitHub - Q-Bukold/TikTok-Content-Scraper: TikTok Content Scraper -- No API-Key needed, minimal dependencies, citable | Download videos (MP4), slides (JPEG) and metadata of author, music, file, hashtag...
TikTok Content Scraper -- No API-Key needed, minimal dependencies, citable | Download videos (MP4), slides (JPEG) and metadata of author, music, file, hashtags, content, interactions etc. - Q-Bukol...
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
🗳️Soziale Netzwerke beeinflussen, welche Inhalte Nutzer:innen sehen – doch was bedeutet das für Wahlen? Das neues Forschungsprojekt „Dein Feed, Deine Wahl“ untersucht, wie politische Inhalte auf TikTok auftauchen. Mehr Infos und das Interview mit Lion Wedel: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...
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Welchen Einfluss haben digitale Plattformen auf Meinungsbildung und Wahlentscheidungen?
Bisher fehlt ein umfassendes Bild davon, welche Inhalte den Nutzerinnen und Nutzern sozialer Netzwerke angezeigt werden – und damit auch, welche Wirkung sie entfalten. Ein neues Forschungsprojekt will...
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Lion Wedel @lionw.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Our new project is finally out! dein-feed-deine-wahl.de Share, like, and participate. Donate your data to get a personalized report on political party activities in your feed!
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
In einem neuen Diskussionspapier untersuchen Weizenbaum-Forschende die jüngsten Veränderungen bei der Inhaltemoderation großer Social-Media-Plattformen und analysieren sie mit Blick auf die krisenhafte Entwicklung der liberalen Demokratie. ➡️ www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...
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Die Macht digitaler Plattformen in Krisenzeiten der Demokratie – neues Discussion Paper
In einem neuen Diskussionspapier untersuchen Weizenbaum-Forschende die jüngsten Veränderungen bei der Inhaltemoderation großer Social-Media-Plattformen und analysieren sie mit Blick auf die krisenhaft...
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