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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Our opinion article about "Research Opportunities and Challenges of the EU’s Digital Services Act" is out in CACM! cacm.acm.org/opinion/rese...

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

AI providers (including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and ~180 others) will watermark their AI-generated content, making it possible to detect content created by their AI systems (links in comments). This may impact how gen AI is used broadly. Would you like all AI-generated content to be labeled? 🤖🏷️

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EU rules force Anthropic to expose AI writing worldwide

Anthropic will invisibly watermark all of Claude's text and file output from 2 August to meet EU AI Act transparency rules, with the marking applied globally, whether or not the user is anywhere near ...

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/03/2026

"They were girls who went to school to learn, with hopes and dreams for their future," Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai said. "Today, their lives were brutally cut short.” Read more: wapo.st/4r7izC7

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The past year was remarkable for the SIMS Lab — our transatlantic research lab, spanning @ucddublin.bsky.social and @umassamherst.bsky.social. I'm grateful, proud, and energized for what’s next! 🖥️ Our new website: przemyslslaw.github.io/sims-lab 📸 Photo from my recent trip to Amherst 🧵 1/6

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Tori @buildwithtori.com · 10/02/2026

Open Social Web Series 🌐 Building on the AT Protocol means we don't have to build alone 🙌🏽 Mentions: @jonathanstray.bsky.social @graze.social @stream.place @gandersocial.bsky.social @transrights.northsky.social @skylight.social #OpenSocialWeb #SkylightSocial #BuildWithTori

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Researchers such @randomwalker.bsky.social are calling for a more ambitious study of algorithmic fairness that bridges AI technology with social and legal components. Our research provides insights how to achieve that. More in our new Uncommon Good post! uncommongood.substack.com/p/to-achieve...

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To achieve algorithmic fairness we need to bridge AI technology with society and legal systems

Researchers are calling for a more ambitious study of algorithmic fairness that bridges AI technology with social and legal components.

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Francesco Pierri @frapierri.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Happy to announce that our Opinion article about the hotly debated EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) has been accepted for publication in Communications of the ACM! Preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.14223

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

If you're interested in pursuing a PhD in #AI and/or #DataScience with me and/or my colleagues as your supervisors, apply for this fully-funded PhD scholarship at UCD School of Computer Science!

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I'm honored to join UCD Center for Digital Policy in the times when digital transparency and policy matter more than ever. 🇪🇺🇺🇸 (Just to clarify, I'm an Assistant Professor, hopefully soon an Associate Professor.)

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

The EU’s €120M fine on Musk’s X is a first step, yet the platform remains a vector for a broader US agenda steering Europe to the right, says Alexandra Geese, an MEP from Germany. Oversight must match the scale of the threat to Europe’s sovereignty, she argues.

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Europe Fined X, But It's Still Avoiding the Real Threat to Democracy | TechPolicy.Press

The European Commission's enforcement action is not sufficient to address the systemic risks posed by X, says MEP Alexandra Geese.

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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

🚨 New in Nature+Science!🚨 AI chatbots can shift voter attitudes on candidates & policies, often by 10+pp 🔹Exps in US Canada Poland & UK 🔹More “facts”→more persuasion (not psych tricks) 🔹Increasing persuasiveness reduces "fact" accuracy 🔹Right-leaning bots=more inaccurate

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Martin Saveski @msaveski.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

New paper in Science: In a platform-independent field experiment, we show that reranking content expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in social media feeds alters affective polarization. 🧵

Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used this method to conduct a preregistered 10-day field experiment with 1256 participants on X during the 2024 US presidential campaign. Our experiment used a large language model to rerank posts that expressed antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity (AAPA). Decreasing or increasing AAPA exposure shifted out-party partisan animosity by more than 2 points on a 100-point feeling thermometer, with no detectable differences across party lines, providing causal evidence that exposure to AAPA content alters affective polarization. This work establishes a method to study feed algorithms without requiring platform cooperation, enabling independent evaluation of ranking interventions in naturalistic settings.

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Our first NeurIPS paper on fair representation learning with controllable guarantees. Fantastic research, and a result of extremely dedicated work by @jamesluoyh.bsky.social and our team! Well done! 🎊

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Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org

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UCD School of Computer Science @ucdcs.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

X's Algorithm Amplifies Political Extremes Prof. @przemyslslaw.bsky.social studied #X during Poland's 2025 election: 📊 Far-right & far-left posts stay in feeds longer 📉 Ruling party content down-ranked 4x 📈 80% feed content now from outside your network zenodo.org/records/1751... #AlgorithmicBias

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

In recent months, I've seen videos showing Israeli settlers harassing Palestinian women harvesting olives, killing baby goats of Palestinian families, and destroying olive trees on Palestinian lands. Why is this happening? Aren't there policemen and courts prosecuting these crimes?

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Our latest study of "Algorithmic Biases on X before the 2025 Polish Presidential Election" reveals that the default algorithmic feed of X showed mostly posts from right-wing parties and amplified political extremes, most likely due to the 2023 updates of X following its takeover (read on). 🧵1/7

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

We want neutrality ⚖️ and free speech 💬 in social media. But can we achieve that without transparency? I don't think so. So right-wing and left-wing policymakers need to talk and figure out how independent researchers can study platforms. An excellent piece for @science.org, with my inputs. 🧵1/2

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

"Access to data by researchers is a crucial element of ensuring transparency and democratic accountability,” @lewan.bsky.social says. “The public is entitled to know what platforms and their algorithms are doing to the information landscape.” I wrote for @science.org about Meta, TikTok and the DSA 🧪

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Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers’ access to data, European Commission rules

Data are needed to study how social media spreads misinformation and influences elections, scientists say

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Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com · 23/10/2025

GreenEarth is creating open source AI-driven recommender infrastructure for BlueSky. Type a prompt, see your feed change. We are here for the users, the builders, the dreamers. Join us. greenearthsocial.substack.com/p/introducin...

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Introducing GreenEarth

We're building advanced open source algorithms for social media

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Last days every morning and evening I was passing by a church that Berliners nicknamed "the hollow tooth", badly damaged in 1943 and never rebuilt as a memorial of WWII, on my way to an excellent and timely workshop about platform transparency organized in Berlin by @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social.

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CNN @cnn.com · 24/09/2025

Right-leaning podcaster Joe Rogan has chimed in on the suspension of late night host Jimmy Kimmel amid pressure from the Trump administration, saying the government should not determine what comedians say and that conservatives were “crazy” to support any such interference. cnn.it/4mvp3Ik

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I'm voting for free speech with my wallet, and cancelling my Disney+ subscription.

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The design of social media platforms, including their AI systems and algorithms, likely contributes to the over-representation of extreme views (image @financialtimes.com). What platforms do we want? For example shall we balance diverse perspectives and societal stability? www.ft.com/content/9251...

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 15/07/2025

Programmers who thought AI would make them 20% faster ended up being 19% slower metr.org/blog/2025-07...

We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower. We view this result as a snapshot of early-2025 AI capabilities in one relevant setting; as these systems continue to rapidly evolve, we plan on continuing to use this methodology to help estimate AI acceleration from AI R&D automation [1].

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WIRED @wired.com · 28/08/2025

Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

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Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky

Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.

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The Economist @economist.com · 28/08/2025

Brazil offers a lesson in democracy to an America that is becoming more corrupt, protectionist and authoritarian econ.st/4peBqLR

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

On the day when Israel killed four more Al Jazeera journalists, it's time we recognize that Israel killed in Gaza more journalists than ever died in any other war, including the World Wars. Source: attached research at Brown University. Let this sink in. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 08/08/2025

Research advocates are expressing alarm over a White House directive on federal grantmaking released yesterday that they say threatens to enhance President Donald Trump’s control over science agency decisions on what to fund. scim.ag/45q6P4J

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Trump order aims to politicize decisions on federal science grants

Researchers worried by plan giving political appointees more control over where funding goes

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Tim Duffy @timfduffy.com · 08/08/2025

Holy crap every single post is negative www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Can you distinguish between photos of 🇵🇸 2025 Gaza and 🇵🇱 1945 Warsaw? Take this half-minute anonymous quiz to see! Please repost for reach! t.ly/NfRy1 (Today is the 81st anniversary of Warsaw Uprising.)

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Mini quiz: 2025 Gaza or 1945 Warsaw?

Can you distinguish between photos of 1945 Warsaw and 2025 Gaza? Let's see! The quiz should take you max half minute and it's 100% anonymous.

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 30/07/2025

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

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Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work

A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

We gave with Vishal Kalakonnavar three talks at one of my favourite research conferences, @ic2s2.bsky.social, in Sweden, representing the SIMS lab. This was a fantastic conference 🎉. I'm looking forward to the next year's edition in Vermont! I attach pointers to the studies we've presented:

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Trump's AI Action Plan is even worse than I thought it'd be. It's a tech industry wishlist with every box ticked. It signals the further coherence of Silicon Valley and the Trump-led federal government into a cooperative, automation-bent surveillance state. It's a blueprint for dystopia.

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Trump's AI Action Plan is a blueprint for dystopia

The president is trying to give Silicon Valley nearly everything it wants — at a price.

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

On my way ✈️🚌 to Norrköping in 🇸🇪 for @ic2s2.bsky.social conference. Looking forward to meeting everyone! 😊 The SIMS lab will deliver 3 talks in sessions starting at 14:30 1. Tuesday: Political Biases on X before the 2025 German Federal Election (session: Online Platforms & Algorithms II)

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Thanks to @masslive.bsky.social for great coverage of our @icwsm.bsky.social'25 study of global news coverage 📰! We show that deaths and 💰GDP💰 of event country are the strongest predictors of global news coverage of disasters and terrorist attacks (w @brenocon.bsky.social, @ethanz.bsky.social)!

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Delighted and thankful that our study "Election Polls on Social Media: Prevalence, Biases, and Voter Fraud Beliefs" received Best Paper Honorable Mention at @icwsm.bsky.social'25! 🙏🎊 Please check the out attached thread to learn more about our study! 📄

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Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This is a terrific paper and I'm very happy to have been a small contributor to it.

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Excited to share our FAME method for news identification: Fingerprint-to-Article Matching for Events from a DB! We use it to study news coverage of disasters and conflicts (w @brenocon.bsky.social @ethanz.bsky.social). Check out our talk and poster at @icwsm.bsky.social!🧵👇 arxiv.org/abs/2506.12925

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Chhandak Bagchi @cbagchi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

🚨 Excited to share our #ICWSM2025 paper 🚨 📄 "Effects of Research Paper Promotion via ArXiv and X" w/ @ericmalmi.bsky.social & @przemyslslaw.bsky.social We will present it at ICWSM this Tuesday at 5:15pm CET! 🧵👇

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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

X disproportionately pushing content from far-right parties in the “for you” feed in the context of German and Polish elections. Algorithmic auditing suggests that X’s feed algorithm uses political affiliation as a signal to boost content. @przemyslslaw.bsky.social at DETOX workshop #ICWSM

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

On my way to @icwsm.bsky.social, where I'll give five research presentations, including a spotlight talk. It will undoubtedly be a busy conference, partly because my US-based students couldn't travel ✈️, but I'm looking forward to chatting with everyone, and visiting beautiful Copenhagen again! 😎

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

It's fascinating and concerning to learn statements of our politicians and media as the Israeli attack on Iran unfolds... International law scholars described the attack as a crime of aggression that "violates international law, threatening peace and security". 🧵1/3 www.ejiltalk.org/is-israels-u...

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Is Israel’s Use of Force Against Iran Justified by Self-Defence?

This morning, Israel launched a major military operation against Iran targeting its nuclear programme, including facilities, individual scientists and military leadership. In this post, I will provide...

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

"There is no diplomacy in our world today. There is only war." Iran signed a deal to reduce its nuclear program in 2015, but Trump terminated it in 2018. Now Trump forces Iran to sign a new deal, while threatening to destroy the nation. How does Iran know whether it won't be destroyed either way? 🤔

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I've seen recent claims that LLMs have IQ comparable to that of humans. However, if LLMs were trained on the IQ questions they are tested on, they could simply have memorized the answers, so IQ test results may not say anything about their intelligence, but rather about their memory abilities. 🧵1/2

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