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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

New preprint with @daniel-thilo.bsky.social and a truly international team: Using Mali and Ethiopia as cases, we argue that malicious AI swarms could pose particular risks for Global South countries plagued by conflict, authoritarian tendencies, and/or weak state capacity. arxiv.org/pdf/2610.11930

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heiseonline @heise.de · 10/10/2026

Die vom Bund bereitgestellte Wallet soll ab 2027 Aus- und Nachweise bündeln und künftig auch Zugang zu ePA und Co. ermöglichen – doch noch ist viel unsicher. #Datenschutz

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EUDI-Wallet: Gesundheitswesen plant mit, doch zentrale Fragen sind offen

Die vom Bund bereitgestellte Wallet soll ab 2027 Aus- und Nachweise bündeln und künftig auch Zugang zu ePA und Co. ermöglichen – doch noch ist viel unsicher.

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heiseonline @heise.de · 10/10/2026

Etliche wichtige Unternehmen in Japan meldeten zuletzt Cyberangriffe. Japans Digitalminister spricht von einem Notstand. #Cyberangriff

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Japan reagiert auf Welle von Cyberangriffen

Etliche wichtige Unternehmen in Japan meldeten zuletzt Cyberangriffe. Japans Digitalminister spricht von einem Notstand.

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Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Mit #Palantir wollte ICE auch Wählerregister in eine Massendatensammlung integrieren und zur Verdachtsbildung für die Migrantenjagd nutzen. Eine Zweckänderung: Die Daten wurden eigentlich im Zusammenhang mit mutmaßlichen Wahlverstößen gesammelt. www.biometricupdate.com/202610/ice-v...

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ICE voter data, nonprofit investigations expose expansive surveillance machinery | Biometric Update

ICE records show mass voter-data analysis, nonprofit investigations and plans to move enriched election data into Palantir’s ELITE enforcement system.

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Did they also discover it in the response to reviewers letter. Happened to me recently too :D

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am very happy to be on the program committee for next years Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI27) conference (foci.community) — the call is still open until the end of the month. Feel free to submit more social sciencey work too!

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And this after I had to enter my PIN and use my physical ID card a hundred times. I kind of miss the BankID #Norway.

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trying to register a move in Germany online.

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Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft @hiigberlin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Rechts vor links lernt jedes Kind. Was mit unseren #Daten im Internet passiert, weiß kaum jemand. Brauchen wir einen Netz-Führerschein? Im #DigitalerSalon diskutieren wir über #Datenkompetenz, #Bildung & selbstbestimmte Entscheidungen. 👉 Am HIIG oder im Livestream: www.hiig.de/events/digit...

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gibt es den noch? Scheint mir aber genauso unbedeutend wie der ex-Verfassungsschutzchef, wie hieß der noch gleich?

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The interview with Tal Cual exactly mirrors my argument made in doi.org/10.1017/S000... and doi.org/10.1017/psrm... --- when news websites get censored, the massively loss revenues and only a few survive. Glad that Tal Cual continued publishing for such a long time!

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When Censorship Works: Exploring the Resilience of News Websites to Online Censorship | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core

When Censorship Works: Exploring the Resilience of News Websites to Online Censorship - Volume 53 Issue 4

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Crashing a Plane for Clicks: Influencers Push Shock Content to Get Views A growing number of social media creators are pushing the boundaries of safety and good taste to feed algorithms and win followers. New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u...

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Risks for Clicks: Why Online Influencers Push Shock Content

A growing number of social media creators are pushing the boundaries of safety and good taste to feed algorithms and win followers.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 11/09/2026

From architecture to political power, hallucinogens and other psychoactive substances influenced everything in ancient Andean civilization. scim.ag/4inBfNg

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Mind-altering drugs played key role in rise of Andean civilization

Hallucinogens and other psychoactive substances influenced everything from architecture to political power

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You can find the working paper here osf.io/preprints/so.... Any comments welcome! We thank @statsvitenskap.bsky.social for funding.

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We speculate that this pattern should be especially pronounced where polarization is high, opposition coalitions are broad, and expectations of an opposition victory run high.

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We argue that this creates what we call an authoritarian double bind for opposition parties in electoral autocracies: the constraints imposed by the regime produce the very weaknesses voters hold them accountable for.

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Analyzing open-ended responses of an exploratory online survey (w/ known limitations), we find that opposition voters were particularly frustrated by the choice of presidential candidate, by intra-coalition infighting, and by the ideological compromises underpinning the opposition alliance.

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

despite the uneven playing field in electoral autocracies — where incumbents bend electoral rules and use information control (10.0.4.233/jep.33.4.100), repression and co-optation (10.0.4.56/13510347.201...) to stay in power — most opposition voters also heavily blamed the opposition itself.

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New preprint! How do opposition voters evaluate electoral loss in autocracies? Leveraging an exploratory online survey in Turkey at the end of 2023, my amazing co-author @draege.bsky.social and I show that…

Vote choices for the 2023 elections in Turkey.

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Nils Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We have a 2-year postdoc position available in a new SNSF/DFG-funded project on nationalist mobilization. More details here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/5.... Please share widely!

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Postdoctoral Position in Computational Social Science

Deadline: 04.10.2026

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 08/09/2026

Sci-fi writers need to work hard to keep up with this level of real world dystopia. People are renting their faces to AI tools to be used in microdramas.

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Sara Mitchell @sbmitche.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Interesting (and scary) presentation by @argohdes.bsky.social on how the social media system is changing and what this means for conflict mobilization research. Now I really don’t trust any video or image content 😭

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Page not found. I may have a study fitting the panel.

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Very interesting study illustrating that (online) contention still happens even in the most repressive and controlled enviroments. Reminds me a lot on the study by @neilketchley.bsky.social and me on Day of Rage protests in Egypt www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

PS: If you want to conduct excellent research in political science I can only recommend applying to positions @statsvitenskap.bsky.social, and very supportive and collegial department.

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I will continue working with them on questions related to autocratic politics, and I look forward to working with @ajungherr.bsky.social, @boundaryworker.bsky.social and others at the bidt on new questions in digital politics!

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I want to sincerely thank my colleagues at the @statsvitenskap.bsky.social (Universitetet i Oslo), where I had an inspiring time in the ERC-funded ELDAR project led by @chknutsen.bsky.social, who has been such a great mentor and friend to me.

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I just started as a senior researcher at the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), continuing and expanding my work on digital politics from an empirical social science perspective.

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I am very much looking forward to present my work (together w/ Vilde Lunnan Djuve) in the first Digital Publics conference @ University of Zurich in October. See the program here: digitalpublics.dsi.uzh.ch/app/uploads/... @ipz.bsky.social

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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Don't sleep on this opportunity to join my former department. The Department of Methodology at LSE is a great place to work, and London is a great place to live.

lse.ac.uk

We're hiring: Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Erst mit 40 Millionär, sehr enttäuschend *ironie*

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Great keynote by @dzobrien.bsky.social and @tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social opening the #WhoGoV mini-conference organized by @jacobnyrup.bsky.social and team at the UiO. Fantastic program and conference so far!

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

...the recent attack also seems likely to reflect other motivations, i.e., a response from Iranian actors to the recent aggression of the US as reflected in my other work (doi.org/10.1093/jogs...)

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you were on here yesterday, you experienced what DDoS attacks feel like: the site just not loading. Now imagine you're an exiled news outlet and this happens every time you publish something critical. I summarized my research for @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/how-cyberatt...

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How Cyberattacks Became a Censorship Tool

The internet made it easier to evade traditional censorship, but Philipp Lutscher writes that cyberattacks are a cheap and deniable authoritarian countermove.

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