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INCT-CPCT @inctcpct.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

🔎 Marcelo Alves, (@marceloalvests.bsky.social), professor do Departamento de Comunicação Social da PUC-RIO, apresenta artigo em que se investiga como a pesquisa científica é usada por grupos contrários às vacinas contra a COVID-19 no WhatsApp no Brasil. youtu.be/JCG7uGnGYNQ

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Ooh, look. When we covered the climate impacts of machine learning (“AI”) on Rare Earth in June we found it really frustrating that none of the tech companies would tell anyone the water and energy costs. Now Google has made at least some of it public. More of this! (and preferably raw data too).

technologyreview.com

In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses

It’s the most transparent estimate yet from one of the big AI companies, and a long-awaited peek behind the curtain for researchers.

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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

More zero-click searches, same revenue for Google, less visibility for publishers? Three things to read together on (1) how users respond to AI summaries, (2) what the company says it means for volume of queries and revenue, and (3) outside analysis on publishers’ visibility 1/4

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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Puzzled by all these AI policies? This Global AI Governance Matrix is very useful 👇 (credits to Walter Pasquarelli!)

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Intercept Brasil @intercept.com.br · 25/07/2025

Data centers das big techs viraram símbolo de “progresso” no Brasil: ganham isenção, água, energia e terrenos. É a mesma história de sempre: exploram o território enquanto lucram lá fora. Um colonialismo versão 2.0, mas agora com cabos e servidores no lugar de navios.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/07/2025

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

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Isabela Kalil @isabela-kalil.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Pra quem quer entender o que Trump fala na carta sobre as big techs, vale ouvir o podcast da @folha.com em que comento o uso de “liberdade de expressão” e “censura” mencionadas por Trump no anúncio das tarifas open.spotify.com/episode/1ZV3...

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A ideia de liberdade de expressão e o caso Musk X Moraes

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

McDonald's uses an AI bot called "Olivia" for hiring. A pair of hackers found they could access every conversation job applicants had with it—including all the personal info they shared—by exploiting security vulnerabilities as basic as using the password "123456". www.wired.com/story/mcdona...

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McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’

Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

There is no ethical AI. The tech is based on stolen intellectual property, anti-solidarity between workers, labor exploitation, environmental injustice, climate destabilization, structural racism, and gender inequalities.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The United States, that "beacon of democracy", has intervened in 128 elections since 1946 to shape political outcomes in their own interests.

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Hannah Waight @hwaight.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I am thrilled to share a new article in Sociological Methods & Research, “Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages”. My co-first author Sol Messing and our collaborators developed a new approach to measuring “narrative similarity” between texts: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages - Hannah Waight, Solomon Messing, Anton Shirikov, Margaret E. Roberts, Jonathan Nagler, Jason Greenfield, Megan A. Brown, Kevin Aslett, Joshua A. Tuck...

How can one understand the spread of ideas across text data? This is a key measurement problem in sociological inquiry, from the study of how interest groups sh...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The last few months have been the most impactful by 404 Media yet. Stopping ICE data access; triggering changes at AI companies, more. We continue to be the most impactful tech outlet on the internet, and our subscribers let us do this work. Here are some of those recent examples:

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Meta's AI discover feed is (still!) leaking user conversations with its AI. With its scale/import in shaping people's perception of reality, it is hard to think of a worse actor in the AI space than Meta, or to imagine a more invasive, user-hostile product than this www.404media.co/meta-invents...

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Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI

In an industry full of grifters and companies hell-bent on making the internet worse, it is hard to think of a worse actor than Meta, or a worse product that the AI Discover feed.

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Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Ad libraries from Meta, Google and other platforms can be incredibly useful for reporting and investigations. Track campaigns and narratives, hunt for disinfo & scams, and more. Here's the Indicator guide to using and investigating ad libraries: indicator.media/p/a-... #OSINT

indicator.media

A guide to investigating digital ad libraries

How to dig into ad libraries from Google, Meta and other platforms to track spending, narratives, campaigns and more

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WIRED @wired.com · 29/05/2025

When asked to confirm the current year, Google’s AI-generated top result confidently answers, “No, it is not 2025.” www.wired.com/story/google...

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Google AI Overviews Says It's Still 2024

When asked to confirm the current year, Google’s AI-generated top result confidently answers, “No, it is not 2025.”

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IP.rec @iprec.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Data centers em alta, mas a que custo? 🌿 O Brasil está vivenciando uma corrida por mais infraestrutura digital, com a rápida expansão dos data centers. Entenda riscos e o que está sendo feito! ⬇️

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Epic triple threat!!

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/05/2025

A secret experiment that turned Redditors into guinea pigs was an ethical disaster—and could undermine research that’s only getting more urgent, @tombartlett.bsky.social reports. theatln.tc/xtKXNOyA

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Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group. aoir.org/riskyresearc...

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Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety

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Contributors: Alice Marwick, Dafna Kaufman, Jacob Smith, Patricia Aufderheide, Jessica
Beyer, Emma L. Briant, Coppélie Cocq, Laura Dilley, Sam DiBella, Radhika Gajjala, Kamile
Grusauskaite, Alex D. Ketchum, Zelly Martin, Janice Metzger, Erin McInerney, Rachel Moran,
John McNutt, Suay Melisa Oezkula, Victoria O’Meara, Riccardo Nanni, Carolina Parreiras,
Katy Pearce, Ryan Payne, Meredith Pruden, Christian Sandvig, Caighlan Smith, Sam Srauy,
Zeerak Talat, Leonie Tanczer, Robert Tynes, Antonia Vaughan, Shenja van der Graaf, Courtney
Vowles, Michele White.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

"We are in the midst of a political coup that, if successful, would forever change the nature of US government. It is not taking place in the streets. There is no martial law. It is taking place cubicle by cubicle in federal agencies and in the mundane automation of bureaucracy." @eryk.bsky.social

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Anatomy of an AI Coup | TechPolicy.Press

DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The AI jobs crisis is not coming—it's here right now. It just might not look the way many thought it would. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-job...

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The AI jobs crisis is here, now

It's not coming, it has already arrived.

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 17/04/2025

the US Department of Justice has won its antitrust case against Google, which accused the company of operating a monopoly in the ad tech industry. This is the 2nd time in a year that a federal court has ruled Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly www.theverge.com/news/650665/...

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Google loses adtech monopoly case

A loss for Google.

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Luiz Fernando Toledo @luizftoledo.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Publicamos uma reportagem especial na BBC News Brasil, feita nos últimos quatro meses, que identificou mais de 200 contratos públicos de pavimentação firmados com construtoras autuadas ou que já compraram pedras extraídas de pedreiras que empregavam trabalhadores em situação análoga à de escravo.

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Odilon Caldeira Neto @odiloncaldeira.com · 10/04/2025

Imperdível! Steven trabalha com maestria e acessibilidade o tema. Não menos importante, é uma abordagem crítica sobre o assunto, trazendo alternativas ao marasmo de algumas interpretações hegemônicas. 👇

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Raquel Recuero @raquelrecuero.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

📢 #Callforpapers: “From Fact-Checking to Community Notes: Structural Shifts in the Fight Against Disinformation on Social Media” Editors: Ramón Salaverría, University of Navarra, Spain Lucas Graves, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S. Raquel Recuero UFPEL/UFRGS revistas.unav.edu/index.php/co...

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Call for Papers, Special Issue 2026: "From Fact-Checking to Community Notes: Structural Shifts in the Fight Against Social Media Disinformation" | Communication & Society

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Center for Advanced Studies @caslmu.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

During an inspiring three day workshop organized by @sahanaudupa.bsky.social, a group of expert researchers, practitioners and policy makers presented and discussed the results of their research about extreme speech on encrypted messaging platforms. 1/4

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Dan Devine @yourmandevine.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This information could be used to chill out and just let people try to make the best things they can without sweating imaginary numbers, or disregarded in favor of freaking out over what we imagine those numbers to mean. Let me just take a big sip of coffee while I wait to find out which way it goes

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Sahana Udupa @sahanaudupa.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Inviting a stellar group of speakers to the Munich symposium @caslmu.bsky.social Naomi Miyashita, UN Peacekeeping, Courtney Cooper, WhatsApp Global Director Public Policy, Katharina Goede @hateaid.org Launching "WhatsApp in the World" (New York University Press) & UN commissioned policy report

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Some news many years in the making: My book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, is ready for pre-order at empireofai.com. It tells the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding the moment we’re in: the tech elite's extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy. 1/

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 22/03/2025

Introducing our brand new NoteTracker Dashboard—an app built for discovering and analyzing X posts with Community Notes. It's designed to give you a comprehensive view of Community Notes data on X. notetracker.socialmediadata.org #weekendproject

notetracker.socialmediadata.org

NoteTracker Dashboard

App for Discovering and Analyzing X Posts with Community Notes

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Tatiana Dias @tatikmd.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

As redes sociais estão transformando as cidades – fisicamente. Esse artigo mostra como, em SP, investidores priorizam botar grana em espaços instagramáveis. "Nas cidades contemporâneas, quem controla a atenção das redes sociais controla o fluxo de pessoas – e, portanto, o fluxo do capital":

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Sahana Udupa @sahanaudupa.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Will be out soon! UN commissioned policy report on encrypted messaging and extreme speech with this fantastic research group @martinriedl.bsky.social @hwasser.bsky.social @erkan.bsky.social @anmolalphonso.bsky.social @cayleyclifford.bsky.social @caslmu.bsky.social

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

just reupping this, on the Oscar-winning movie about how life under authoritarianism can feel almost normal until people start getting disappeared.

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The Year’s Most Urgent Best Picture Contender Is the One Almost No One Has Seen

I’m Still Here has a warning—and a reason for hope.

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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Very excited to receive the page proofs for my new book, Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism- forthcoming from Princeton University Press. Stay tuned for preordering & book tour info, hope to see many of you at in person events in the fall 🔥

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/02/2025

"Any Sufficiently Transparent Magic…[: On Occultation and Magical Logics in the Realm of 'AI'"] scholar.google.com/citations?vi...

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‪Any Sufficiently Transparent Magic…‬

‪DP Williams‬, ‪American Religion, 2023‬ - ‪Cited by 4‬

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

Been seeing an increase of useful terminology developing among academics to describe the right’s appropriation of these ideas: “inverted victimhood” “hijacked victimhood” “imitated victimhood” The challenge is getting media folks to do the power analysis around victimhood claims in real time

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

JD Vance is proclaiming to the world that the US's AI industry will dominate, Elon Musk and DOGE are hollowing out the government with an AI-first strategy, and Silicon Valley's is stuck on a growth-at-all-costs AI approach. As @katecrawford.bsky.social put it: 'AI is in its empire era'

bloodinthemachine.com

'AI is in its empire era'

JD Vance's AI saber-rattling, DOGE's gutting of the government, and Silicon Valley's thirst for growth show how AI has become a tool for consolidating power.

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Cecília do Lago @ceciliadolago.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

It's so simple. Against xenophobia, the host. Against hatred, friendship. Against closed doors, the invitation. Against indifference, genuine curiosity. I'm very proud to tell everyone Come to Brazil

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Cecília do Lago @ceciliadolago.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

In times of hatred and hostile borders, I never thought that an innocent phrase typical of music fans to bring their idols would have such strong political potential: Come to Brazil

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Reading list to offer context for today’s environment: 1) Strongmen, Ruth Ben-Ghiat 2) Mafia States, Moises Naim 3) Autocracy, Inc., Anne Appelbaum 4) Tech Coup, Marietje Schaake 5) Corruptible, Brian Klaas 6) Dying of Whiteness, Jonathan Metzl

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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

If only we had done the same.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Good thread by @lorenzspreen.bsky.social about what we know - and do *not* know - about social media and democracy 💡 #commsky @polcomm.bsky.social

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gustabo @gusbernardes.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

E a empresa símbolo do insustentável modelo de streaming musical registrou, pela primeira vez em suas quase duas décadas, um ano de lucros em 2024. Às custas, é claro, do corte de 20% de sua equipe para diminuição de gastos. variety.com/2025/digital... (+)

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Spotify Posts First Full-Year Profit for 2024, CEO Says Streamer Will ‘Double Down’ on Music in 2025

Spotify reported solid Q4 and full-year 2024 earnings, with the streamer turning in its first annual net profit since it was founded in 2006.

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