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Forum Informationsfreiheit @infofreiheit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Zum heurigen Right to Know-Day vergeben wir wieder den Amtsgeheimnis-Award „Die Mauer des Schweigens“ für „besondere Verdienste um die Verweigerung amtlicher Antworten“. Denn auch ein Jahr nach Einführung des #IFG glänzen einige staatliche Institutionen mit Geheimniskrämerei!🧵

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Amtsgeheimnis-Award „Mauer des Schweigens 2026“ an Land Vorarlberg, Wiener Linien, Wirtschaftskammer Wien; Goldener Informationsfilter an Innenministerium

Wien, 28. September 2026 – Anlässlich des 24. internationalen Tags der Informationsfreiheit – dem Right to Know-Day – vergibt das Forum Informationsfreiheit (FOI) den Amtsgeheimnis-Award „Die Mauer…

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Oli Hawkins @olihawkins.com · 27/09/2026

Increasingly persuaded of the significance of the HuggingFace hack. Irrespective of OpenAI’s sloppiness, the behaviour of the agents is genuinely interesting. swarmtraces.org

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Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

When a swarm of 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in July, they left behind a public trail of evidence.

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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

One of the most striking patterns from today’s historic vote: The higher the share of non-Swiss residents in a municipality, the *lower* the support for the far-right SVP initiative to cap Switzerland’s population at 10M. The contact hypothesis holds up well! Plot (c): @marcokistler.bsky.social

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Sol Messing @solmg.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

New in Nature: LLMs give "the party line" in the languages of authoritarian regimes. This works when they control the media, which feeds pretraining data. We show more state control over the media means less critical LLMs. 6 studies spanning 38 languages & 13 models. Details ↓

Scatter plot of 38 countries plus China showing the proportion of LLM responses favorable to the regime in the local language vs. World Press Freedom Index score. Lower press freedom predicts more regime-favorable responses; all production models pooled.

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Christian Haslacher @haslacher.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

When we migrated our processes years ago we forgot one poor little cronjob. It was left behind on an old server and for the past three years dutifully tried to fetch daily #Covid -data from long inexistent sources. We finally found and retired him today.

A snippet of an outdated Covid-Dashboard, showing data from 2023-06-06

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

BREAKING: Viktor Orbán quits Hungary's parliament after 36 years – confirming my earlier scoop that he's planning a longer US trip this summer, where heads of the Orbán business empire – his daughter and son-in-law – already live, and where he could possibly seek refuge from prosecution.

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Christian Haslacher @haslacher.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Die Auszählung in #Ungarn läuft recht flott. 30 Prozent der Stimmen ausgezählt - TISZA liegt in 95 von 106 Wahlkreisen vorne. vtr.valasztas.hu/ogy2026?filt...

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Zselyke Csaky @zecsaky.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

At 5pm it's officially a record -- at 74% it's the highest turnout in the history of modern elections in Hungary. And there is still two more hours to go.

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Christian Haslacher @haslacher.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

🤦 „Because large language models can generate responses that emulate human answers, polling companies see an opportunity to use A.I. agents to simulate survey responses at a small fraction of the cost and time required for traditional polling.“

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Christian Haslacher @haslacher.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Ziemlich ausgefuchste Anti-Scraping-Maßnahmen, die die @econtrol.bsky.social hier setzt 🤖

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V-Dem Institute @vdeminstitute.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v16 & the V-Dem Institute Democracy Report 2026 💾 The V-Dem Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d... 📰 The Report "Unraveling The Democratic Era?”: v-dem.net/publications... 📈 Explore the new data with the V-Dem Graphing tools: v-dem.net/graphing/gra... #PoliSky #PoliSciSky 1/3

Two map graphs show the state of liberal democracy according to the V-Dem Liberal Democracy index for 2025 and 2024. The higher the score (or darker blue), the more democratic the country. Lower scores (or dark red) mean less democratic. While North and South America, Western Europe and Oceania are mostly in the blue, most parts of Asia and Africa are in the red in 2025.
In comparison to the map for 2024, the map graph for 2025 shows democratic backsliding in some traditionally stable democracies in Western Europe and North America, in particular the USA, United Kingdom and Italy.

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/03/2026

Another day, another stupid Excel chart.

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Christian Haslacher @haslacher.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

So every country gets the government it deserves, I guess #EpicFury

A Bluesky post saying that six suspected insiders made 1.2 Mill. Dollars by betting on a US strike on Iran

A Screenshot of a Twitter post by US Central Command saying that three US service members were killed in action in the war with Iran

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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

🎉 We’ve received 645 responses to the 2025 State of the Data Viz Industry Survey so far! Take the survey if you create #dataviz in any capacity (hobby, work, school, art), and help us spread the word: www.surveyhero.com/c/soti2025-b...

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Frederik Obermaier @frederikobermaier.com · 04/10/2025

In a digital world, talking to sensitive sources is nearly impossible without encryption. The EU’s #ChatControl plan is an attack on accountability journalism - and a gift to surveillance

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Christian Haslacher @haslacher.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Wir liefern seit Ende Juni alle APA-Grafiken mit #KI -gestützt erstellten Alternativtexten aus. Wie das funktioniert, warum wir das machen und was wir bei dem Projekt gelernt haben, gibts hier auf GenAI in the Newsroom nachzulesen 🔽 generative-ai-newsroom.com/improving-th...

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Improving the Accessibility of Infographics with AI-Generated Alt-Text

The Austrian Press Agency (APA) uses generative AI to create text to describe charts and graphs for visually impaired people.

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Christian Haslacher @haslacher.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Die einen sagen so, die anderen so

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Katharina Schell @kschell.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

shiny new profession: "moderating" AI search overviews. Excellent piece on AI misinformation as a feature and how it comes about. at the risk of repeating myself... Do not get your facts from AI and DO NOT geht your news from AI! Please....

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Christian Haslacher @haslacher.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Wie viele andere Medien verwenden wir die Auswertungen von conflict-damage.org, um die Zerstörung des Gazastreifens zu visualisieren. Die KollegInnen von @derstandard.at haben die Betreiber interviewt. #Gaza ist mittlerweile stärker verwüstet als Dresden 1945. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

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Christian Haslacher @haslacher.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Damit niemand selbst nachzählen muss, haben wir bei der APA die Einkommens-Daten der Abgeordneten ausgewertet. Nachzulesen zb in der Kleinen Zeitung und im Standard. www.derstandard.at/story/300000... www.kleinezeitung.at/politik/inne...

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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

📊 Neues AUTNES Daten Dashboard ist live! 🎉 Es bietet Einblicke in die politischen Entwicklungen in #Österreich von 2017 bis 2024. Basierend auf der #AUTNES Online Panel Study lässt sich die Dynamik der öffentlichen Meinung über mehrere #Wahlen hinweg erkunden. 🗳️🔍🧵 🔗 131.130.71.40:3838/autnes/

Startseite des AUTNES Online Panel Study: Data Dashboard. Die Grafik zeigt die Entwicklung des Vertrauens in den Nationalrat von 2017 bis 2024. Die Farbskala reicht von dunkelrot (sehr geringes Vertrauen, 0) bis dunkelblau (sehr hohes Vertrauen, 10). Die Mehrheit der Befragten vertraut dem Parlament nur wenig oder teilweise.

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