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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 01/08/2026

Tucker Carlson is going to run for president and likely win.

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Erin C. @erincikanek.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

a small traffic jam on the trail caused my morning run to briefly become a morning walk

A doe on the left hand side of a gray stone trail and a fawn on the opposite side. Both are looking directly to camera. The sides of the trail are all green grass and green trees.

The small traffic jam has crossed the trail and is nursing while the mother deer looks directly to camera, as if to say “don’t even try me.”

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Daniel Vella @danielvella.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Just received physical copies of our volume of essays on the games of From Software, out now on @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social - and it's an even more gorgeous thing than photos can convey. I was planning on doing some work today but might just stare at this on the shelf instead.

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 16/05/2026

Saw something special and precious today

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Schwabenschau @schwabenschau.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Sogar Drumbs Anhängr bgreifa nun, dess der US-Bräsidend älles andere als oi gnialr Dealmakr isch. Des iranische Regim schdehd solid da. Geklaud vo:

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 24/04/2026

I recently read my first fiction book in.. too long a time. And I thought it was very beautiful. I had heard about booktok and thought I'll check it out to continue thinking about the book. I discovered that everyone there hates on it with a passion So is booktok just ragebait? Or what's going on?

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 23/04/2026

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 23/04/2026

I can't believe the German chancellor just played Europa Universalis 4, live on stream.

An AI-generated image of German chancellor Friedrich Merz playing Europa Universalis 4 on Twitch.

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 20/04/2026

There is a dog having the chillest of days while the UK parliament erupts in chaos.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

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Sarah Rajtmajer @srajtmajer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The first three SCORE papers are out today in Nature. This program really defined my pre-tenure career. Always grateful to Adam Russell and @briannosek.bsky.social for the experience. NYTimes has featured it as well: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/s...

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Can Science Predict When a Study Won’t Hold Up?

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 01/04/2026

I was happy to be a part of this massive effort. 7 years, 865 researchers, and 3 Nature papers later show what's possible when the scientific community comes together to honestly examine its own foundations. Huge thanks to @briannosek.bsky.social, the SCORE team, and all collaborators.

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 20/03/2026

Wer im Wahlkampf auf Meta Werbung trotz ihres Verbots schaltet verschafft sich einen unfairen Vorteil. @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social & ich sprachen mit der @szde.bsky.social über unsere Untersuchung in der wir dutzende Anzeigen im Landtagswahlkampf fanden. www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/m...

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Meta verstößt gegen eigenes Verbot bei politischer Werbung

Meta hat politische Werbung eigentlich verboten. Eine Untersuchung zeigt, dass viele politische Anzeigen trotzdem online bleiben.

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 19/03/2026

The municipal elections in the Netherlands were held yesterday in a free and fair manner. And yet, I believe they happened on an unequal playing field when it comes to voter outreach opportunities, for which I squarely lay the blame on Meta and its non-enforcement of its own political ad ban policy.

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 18/03/2026

Ok it wasn't easily outsmarted!

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Morgen verkiezingen 🗳️ #GR2026 🎯 Veel AI berichten online 🎯 Vooral op Facebook 🎯 PVV is grootste 'AI-producent' 🎯 90% van AI inhoud is niet gelabeld als AI 🔊Het voorbeeld hieronder is 100% AI ⬇️ Dit en veel meer te zien op: gr26.campaigntracker.nl @favstats.eu @ascor.bsky.social @algosoc.org

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 16/03/2026

🚀 Launching our CampAIgn Tracker for the Dutch municipal elections! We monitor AI-generated content across 4 platforms in 30 municipalities. PVV leads AI use again. And 90% of posts without any label. Can you spot the AI? Try our "AI of Niet?" game! gr26.campaigntracker.nl

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Who Targets Me @whotargets.me · 13/03/2026

More excellent work from @favstats.eu showing how Google's "political ad ban" in the EU is failing. www.favstats.eu/post/google_...

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It's Not Just Meta: Political Parties in the Netherlands Are Advertising with Google Ads Despite Ban | favstats - personal blog

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Jan Steurs @jansteurs.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Misschien, zo heel misschien... Is dat "verbod" op politieke advertenties van de tech giganten toch niet zo'n verbod.

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 13/03/2026

It's not just Meta. Google also banned political ads in the EU, yet Dutch political parties are running them ahead of municipal elections. Some are visible in Google's Transparency Center, others leaving no public trace and you can only run into them incidentally. www.favstats.eu/post/google_...

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It's Not Just Meta: Political Parties in the Netherlands Are Advertising with Google Ads Despite Ban | favstats - personal blog

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 12/03/2026

Political ads on Meta also running in upcoming Danish election despite their supposed ban

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 11/03/2026

I have ALSO heard through the grapevine that @noonabdulqadir.bsky.social is looking for a postdoc or equivalent, so if you are hiring you REALLY shouldn't pass up on her. She's brilliant! You can explore her dissertation findings through interactive games here: www.noon-abdulqadir.com/games

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 11/03/2026

My best friend Noon Abdulqadir is defending her PhD on April 9th and I couldn't be more excited and proud! 🎓 Her dissertation "Hiring in the Digital Society" digs into how gender and age stereotypes show up in job advertisements🧵 www.noon-abdulqadir.com/defense/

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Sam Lowe @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Morning.

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 10/03/2026

Today, @laurensdassen.voltnederland.org questioned the Interior Minister on our research finding political ads on Meta, despite ban. Glad to also see one of my core concerns reflected: if platforms can't even detect obvious ads by political parties, how would they catch covert influence campaigns?

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 09/03/2026

You are laughing? Some High IQ gepolitical takes are happening on X and you are laughing?

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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Never show these two plots to a Dutch political scientist...

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 08/03/2026

Meta's politcal ad ban exists on paper only. Quoted at length in this @ad.nl piece on Meta's failure to enforce its rules in the Dutch municipal elections. Since this was written, I've found over 1000 clearly political ads on Meta from parties and politicians. www.ad.nl/politiek/hon...

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Honderden verboden politieke advertenties overspoelen sociale media: ‘Gevaarlijk dat dit kan’

Meer dan 270 socialemediaposts die gaan over de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen voldoen niet aan Europese regelgeving en zijn niet toegestaan volgens het beleid van techplatforms als Meta. Maar ze zijn er t...

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 07/03/2026

Interesting to see: the self-reported political campaign spending in the Netherlands during the upcoming 18th March local elections surpasses even how much money was spent in the national election.

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 07/03/2026

The "political ad ban" on Meta does not exist. It's just a number of people volunteering not to run political ads on the one hand and those who just do it anyway on the other.

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 07/03/2026

There is no "political ad ban" on Meta. A ban that isn't enforced isn't a ban. Former AfD leader Frauke Petry and now leader of a splinter party is running several political ads on Meta. One has been active since Oct 23 and reached 171k people across Germany.

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 25/02/2026

How can you not love the ASoIaF fandom? Everyone is everyone.

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 12/02/2026

This sounds amazing! Instead of spiraling at 2am with your own thoughts you will have five half-baked text predictors spiraling with you! So you can finally stop arguing with yourself... and START arguing with sycophantic LLMs that enable your late-night anxious ruminations FROM EVERY ANGLE!

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Federal Bureau Of Controlling The Run @swolecialism.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Raise your hand if youve been using ffmpeg since college and had no idea that it stood for fast forward moving picture expert group [the file format standardized by the group, not the group itself]

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Check this out (if you are looking to build a dashboard) ⬇️ From Dr Dashboard @favstats.eu himself. With an outstanding track record of dashboards for tracking content, AI material, public opinion and more. @algosoc.org @ascor.bsky.social @aimediademlab.bsky.social

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 08/02/2026

Für solche posts habe ich Schwabenschau gebaut

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 07/02/2026

Check out the gallery if you are curious how dashboardr looks like! And obviously if you build a dashboard with it, we'd be happy to feature you! :) favstats.github.io/dashboardr/g...

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 05/02/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this but you need to listen to music (more). I somehow forgot about music. The world is in major suck mode right now and I listen to news every free minute to make sense of the insanity. If that's you, please listen to music more. It's good for your soul. Take care.

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Jakob Kasper @jakobkas.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Excited to share a new preprint with @bnbakker.bsky.social, @ylelkes.bsky.social & @gijsschumacher.bsky.social! doi.org/10.31234/osf... Affective polarization research focuses almost exclusively on valence, despite affect having at least two core dimensions. We show that emotional arousal matters!

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 05/02/2026

🚀 dashboardr is out! An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax. Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included). 📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/ Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨

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Mariia Tepliakova @mtplk.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

having the best time learning how to build dashboards with dashboardr from @favstats.eu ✨ favstats.github.io/dashboardr/i... is awesome!

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 04/02/2026

Love this! I was wondering about this a year ago and glad someone has actually worked on this. Fascinating stuff. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 15/01/2026

Excited to share our new report on Dutch election integrity! As an academic researcher, one of the most rewarding aspects of my work is when our research can directly inform public debate. That's exactly what happened with the Hybrid Election Integrity Observatory (HEIO). Full report: www.heio.nl

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS 📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026 We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization

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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Ok this was harder than expected

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D @dastanjasim.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Das ist die Lage in den kurdischen Vierteln Aleppos. Komplett willkürlicher Beschuss dieser dicht besiedelten Regionen.

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D @dastanjasim.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Bis 15 Uhr haben die syrischen jihadistischen Regierungskräfte den Zivilist*innen von Ashrafiya und Sheikh Maqsud Zeit zum evakuieren gegeben. Danach behandeln sie die Gebiete wie militärische Ziele. Ethnische Säuberung mit Ansage.

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 07/01/2026

🚨 New CampAIgn Tracker + Hiring 3 Research Assistants! 🚨 Together w/ @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social & colleagues at UvA (@claesdevreese.bsky.social @teresaelena.bsky.social, @nickmattis.bsky.social, @philippdarius.bsky.social), we’re launching a project on GenAI in the 2026 Dutch local elections 🇳🇱

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