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Kilian Buehling

@buehling.bsky.social
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Information ecosystems & far-right political communication | IRex Tübingen |Weizenbaum Institute Passionate poster 🦭

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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Fascinating blogpost! Telegram started banning cybercrime channels after Durov‘s arrest in FR. However, many cybercrime actors hide in „political channels“ now (e.g., “PatriotPartyNewHampshire,” “FreeSouthDakota”). blog.openmeasures.io/p/telegram-c...
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Cybercriminals Are Evading Telegram Crackdowns in 'Patriot Party' and Crypto-themed Channels
Telegram has removed millions of illicit channels in recent years, but cybercriminals are adapting tactics to evade detection
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
It turns out I‘m funneling money to Steve Bannon every time I watch a Seinfeld episode on Netflix, which is basically every day 😢
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Freedom.gov (remember that one?) It’s been nearly half a year since we were promised to be freed from the horrible European censorship regime by this US govt website — will it see the light of day before it expires again in another half year?
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Are all contemporary social media trends really just driven by far-right 4chan larpers? www.tubefilter.com/2026/05/06/o...
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Streamers are mogging each other, so Twitch changed its rules to accommodate them - Tubefilter
As Omoggle becomes a hot app in the world of looksmaxxing, Twitch is relaxing rules related to one-on-one video chats.
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Whether or not that’s just Durov‘s hybris - the old cat and mouse game is on again. Let’s see if 10yrs later an authoritarian government has the means to shut down Telegram. Potentially important case study for many countries to come. www.reuters.com/business/tel...
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Telegram's Durov says Russia triggered payment system problem by blocking VPNs
Telegram founder Pavel Durov said on ​Saturday Russia's attempt to ‌block Virtual Private Networks triggered a problem with a ​domestic payment system, adding ​that tens of millions of ⁠Russians were ...
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Christian Strippel @strippel.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
In knapp zwei Wochen, am 30.3., endet die Einreichungsfrist für unsere Tagung „Utopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaft“ am 16.–18.9.2026 @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social in Berlin! Wir freuen uns auf eure Beiträge! #CfP #digikomm2026
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A good Telegram channel
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Question: I‘ll be teaching a course on Social Network Analysis this year. Can anyone recommend a podcast episode on (social) networks that will get my students hyped about networks in general?
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Cool - Meta considers bringing back facial recognition to their smart glasses. www.platformer.news/meta-facial-...
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Meta’s face turn
In the company’s latest policy reversal under Trump 2.0, the facial recognition system it blew up in 2021 may be poised for a return
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
„Longitudinal [communication] studies make more conceptual contributions and receive more citations than non-longitudinal studies.“ Published in Journal of Communication: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...
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Conceptualization, operationalization, and performance of longitudinal studies in communication research: a systematic review
Abstract. We report a systematic review of longitudinal studies published in SSCI-Communication journals over the 50 years, focusing on how time is conceiv
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
New School Guidance announces: Full bathroom ban. Full PE ban. Full school trip accommodation ban. Trans kids will not go to the bathroom, do PE or go on any school trips. 1/
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A very interesting summary and contextualization! I definitely feel the last sentence: „I’m just not sure what we’re supposed to do with that knowledge.“
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Whatsapp is about to become a VLOP www.reuters.com/technology/e...
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EU considers making WhatsApp more responsible for tackling harmful content, spokesperson says
Meta Platform's messaging unit WhatsApp will likely be subject to tough online content rules targeting illegal and harmful content after it met the user threshold under this regulation, a European Com...
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
What a fantastic resource!
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Emiliano Treré, describing the physical setting in which his ethnography of a student movement's information took place, sounds outright romantic! ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
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Heidi Schulze @hdschulze.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
New Paper in @computationalcommunication.org The Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020-2022 with the most wonderful co-autohors @buehling.bsky.social & @maxzehring.bsky.social >> 2020-2022 >> 715 channels & 229 public groups >> 5,641,026 messages >> Manually curated >> Open for researchers
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Live-Streaming: Mapping Networks of Influence and (Dis)information Flow (van Boheemen, @boesch.bsky.social, @tomdivon.bsky.social et al.) I was just made aware of this very insightful report on the usage of TikTok Live-Streaming by far-right extremists. www.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerSc...
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SummerSchool2025LiveStreaming < Dmi < Foswiki
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Medical cannabis suppliers in Berlin are now using Telegram‘s notorious image as a stepping stone… (Cannabis has recently been de-criminalized in Germany)
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Christian Strippel @strippel.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Am 16.–18. September 2026 veranstalten wir am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social eine Tagung zu „Utopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaft“, in der wir auf 30 Jahre Forschung zu Computer, Internet und Co. blicken. Einreichungsfrist: 30. März 2026. #CfP www.weizenbaum-institut.de/digikomm2026/
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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Important work, excellently presented by @gongbaobao.bsky.social (with Barbara Pfetsch) from the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, on legacy media criticism by right-wing media in 🇩🇪. (Drawing on previous work by Heft et al. 😉👍) #IJPP2025
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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Day 2 of #IJPP2025: Started with a panel featuring yours truly, wherein I presented work together with Annett Heft, Juni Schindler, & @buehling.bsky.social on far-right and legacy media's coverage of conspiracy theories.
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Re-reading Chadwick's classic work on "The Hybrid Media System" feels wild, when it shows pre-TikTok/Reels media consumption: "By 2011 [...] Americans were watching video on a mobile phone for an average of four hours per month. These figures may be small [...] but they are still significant"
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dprex.bsky.social @dprex.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🥳Excited to share our first social media data doi.org/10.4232/1.14... of Telegram COVID-19 protest mobilization 2020–2022 in Germany, covering 5.6M messages from 900+ public channels & groups, conducted by @hdschulze.bsky.social @buehling.bsky.social @maxzehring.bsky.social
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DP-R|EX Data publication
Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020–2022 (TGCPD) How did the movement against COVID-19 containment measures take shape? The newly released Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset (TGCPD) provides a uniqu...
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The narrative seems to be(come) that the Dutch election shows a “comeback of the political center”. We have seen this frame before, implying “the center” has an ideological substance and is stable. But “the center” keeps moving right on mostly nativist, but also often authoritarian, issues.
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Machine Against the Rage @machine-vs-rage.net · 30/10/2025
Wie haben sich die Netzwerke von Rechtsextremismus & Co. und deren Kommunikation während unseres dreijährigen Telegram-Monitorings entwickelt? In der neuen MATR-Ausgabe wagen Christian Donner, @wynbrodersen.bsky.social, @maik.machine-vs-rage.net & Michael Schmidt den Rückblick. 1|13
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Drei Jahre MATR-Monitoring auf Telegram: Die Rolle der Plattform im rechtsalternativen Online-Aktivismus
In diesem Rückblick auf die Daten aus drei Jahren Telegram-Monitoring wird untersucht, wie sich die Nutzung der Plattform durch rechtsalternative Akteure gewandelt hat. Die Analyse zeigt, dass sie tro...
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The times are dire, but some online platforms still seem to deplatform right-wing extremists. The head of the Austrian far-right „Identitarian Movement“ Martin Sellner reports to be cut off of his crypto monetization channels.
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Felix Victor Münch @flxvctr.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Sneak preview for our talk (w. @pekasen.bsky.social) at #AoIR2025 tomorrow as part of the social media & elections panel with @snurb.info, @dscheykopp.bsky.social & Kate O'Connor-Farfan. Looking forward to hear your questions and feedback! (11 AM, room 8G, aoir2025ruptures.sch...)
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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Economist goals
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Paper titles from different fields sometimes sound very niche. But this one caught my attention and I was very lucky to continue reading. This is so insightful and enriching for my own work. Highly recommend! doi.org/10.1002/asi....
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
“Science in fact is only just beginning, and almost all scientists who have ever lived are still alive.“ Stafford Beer starting strong in his “Brain of the firm“
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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
You wouldn't know this from following mediated debates in Germany, but it turns out there are reasons beyond illdefined anxieties about immigration for where and why the far right wins votes...
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DGPuK Methoden @dgpuk-meth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Die Mittelbauveranstaltung ~Pizza & Perspektiven~ der DGPuK Fachgruppen Methoden und Medienökonomie, moderiert von @buehling.bsky.social und Miriam Bernhard war ein voller Erfolg!
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
How many citations in scholarly papers are ERRONEOUS CITATIONS? (citations that do not support the statement they are cited against) Comment your guess before reading the answer in the next post.
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Russia starting to crack down on Telegram and Whatsapp by banning voice calls on both apps. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Russia restricts WhatsApp and Telegram, alleging apps used for fraud and terrorism
Calls via foreign-owned platforms curbed as critics say Kremlin is pushing for greater control over Russia’s internet
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Amadeu Antonio Stiftung @amadeuantonio.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Ein rechtsextremer Burschenschaftler arbeitet für CDU-Amthor, ein paar Büros weiter sitzen seine Kameraden aus der gleichen Kameradschaft in Lohn und Brot bei AfD-Abgeordneten. What could possibly go wrong? Für Amthor: Privatleben.
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Philipp Amthor beschäftigt Mitglied einer extrem rechten Burschenschaft
Sandro M. leitet das Büro des CDU-Abgeordneten Philipp Amthor – und ist Mitglied der extrem rechten Burschenschaft Markomannia Aachen Greifswald.
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Max Zehring @maxzehring.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
✨ New open-access paper ✨ We explored language similarity between Querdenken (Telegram) and German politicians (Twitter). In short: AfD’s communication most similar, but parts of FDP and CDU/CSU also find common ground through discrediting left-wing politics. Full paper: 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
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The language similarity between corona protest mobilizers on Telegram and German politicians on Twitter
Protest movements against COVID-19 containment measures, like Germany’s Querdenken, aim to put their position on the political agenda. The German far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) acted...
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DGPuK Methoden @dgpuk-meth.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
🍕 Pizza & Perspektiven: Diss – und dann?! 🚀 Was kommt nach der Promotion? Darüber sprechen wir beim Career Lunch am 📅 17.09.2025 | 🕛 12:00–13:30 Uhr 📍 Ostfalia Hochschule, Salzgitter Mit dabei: Postdocs & ehem. Promovierende, die über Karrierewege in Wissenschaft & Praxis berichten. Anmeldung 👇
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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · 14/08/2025
Important preprint by @pietronickl.bsky.social @msultan.bsky.social Caedyn Stinson, @fstock.bsky.social Ralph Hertwig @anaskozyreva.bsky.social, touching so many points to move the misinfo discussion forward, like feedback-loops, systemic factors and rhetoric, great work! osf.io/preprints/so...
graphical abstract of the paper
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
#Telegram research is about to be changed: Telegram introduced a global keyword search. (Not yet implemented in telethon)
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Update: Russia plans to go through with their plans to control digital communication. Whatsapp and Telegram possibly face bans, as the govt builds a Chinese-style everything-app together with VK. It’s called ’Max‘. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/w...
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Putin Widens Effort to Control Russia’s Internet
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Belltower.News @belltower.news · 25/07/2025
Das Compact-Verfahren hat eine Solidarisierung in der rechtsalternativen Szene gebracht. Es gibt aber auch Momente des Streits. Was das mit „Remigration“ zu tun hat, klärt diese Quick-Response-Analyse von @machine-vs-rage.net www.belltower.news/bruchstellen...
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Das Compact-Verfahren im Spiegel der rechtsalternativen Szene
Das Compact-Verfahren hat eine Solidarisierung in der rechtsalternativen Szene gebracht. Es gibt aber auch Momente des Streits. Eine Quick-Response-Analyse.
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Ich wollte diesen Artikel mit einem prägnanten, pointierten Zitat reposten. Aber ich kann mich nicht entscheiden, es sind so viele.
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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Für die @taz.de habe ich aufgeschrieben wie man mit den Kulturkampf-Kampagnen der extremen Rechten und des radikalisierten Konservatismus umgehen soll. Andere Wange hinhalten und „we go high“ ist der falsche Ansatz, man muss schnell und scharf reagieren. taz.de/Seid-schnell...
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Seid schnell, seid scharf
Auf der ganzen Welt tappen Konservative in dieselbe Falle. Sie rennen Rechtsextremisten hinterher und betreiben Kulturkampf. Fünf Regeln helfen, das zu verhindern
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Olga Pasitselska, PhD @olpasi.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
🧨new pub! CHAT GROUPS AS LOCAL CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE💬⚙️🆘 w/ @buehling.bsky.social and Emilija Gagrčin pro-democratic participation on German Telegram, scalable mixed-methods chat log analysis, open access, IT IS NOT JUST ANOTHER PAPER ABOUT COVID: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Pro-democratic participation on German Telegram? This paper is the result passionate and harmonic work by three happy co-authors (see below). Honestly, I could not be prouder.
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Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... We conclude that the role of “soft” factors in motivating information seeking on political actors remains underexplored.
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How affect shapes online information seeking about political actors - Cornelius Puschmann, Helena Rauxloh, Lisa Merten, Sebastian Stier, Katrin Weller, Juhi Kulshrestha, 2025
Search engines are both frequently used and widely trusted sources of current political information. While research has examined the different stages of informa...
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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 16/07/2025
Was viele nicht zu verstehen scheinen: Hier wurde ein Drehbuch durchgespielt, mit dem Ziel, eine für die AfD und damit für die schwarz-blaubraunen Träume gewisser Kreise bedrohlich wirkende Richterin zu verhindern und ein nur der AfD nützendes Kulturkampfszenario nach US-Vorbild durchzuziehen.
Streit über Kandidatin für Verfassungsgericht
 
Diese Akteure stehen hinter der Netzkampagne gegen Brosius-Gersdorf
Die vorerst gescheiterte Richterwahl hat die Koalition beschädigt. Vorausgegangen war dem Eklat eine orchestrierte Aktion von Abtreibungsgegnern, rechtspopulistischen Medien und dem Umfeld der AfD. Hatten sie Einfluss auf die Union?
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Maximilian Pichl @maxpichl.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🙄🙄🙄 www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...
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Brosius-Gersdorf: Dekan des Präsidenten des Verfassungsgerichts stieß Affäre an
Vor dem Eklat um die Nominierung von Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf fürs Bundesverfassungsgericht wurde ihr Wikipedia-Artikel gezielt bearbeitet.
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
On incel filter bubbles, meme transference, cult linguistics... An excerpt from "Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language" by Adam Aleksic (etymologynerd), out July 15th
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Wordpilled slangmaxxing: how incel language infected the mainstream internet — and brought its toxicity with it
“Walkpilled cardiomaxxer” isn’t so funny anymore.
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