The book "Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society. Methods & Practices for Investigation & Intervention" eds. by Mirko Tobias Schäfer 🇪🇺 gastev 🐘 social , Karin van Es & Tracey P. Lauriault is available as open access here: aup.nl/en/book/978904…

“There is no doubt that right-wing ideas have found a wider audience among tech elites during Biden’s presidency, as exemplified by Musk.” —Ben Tarnoff go.nybooks.com/4dW3X2k

“Telegram plays a key role in the perpetuation of militant accelerationism,” said one researcher, adding that Pavel Durov’s company “has shown that deplatforming violent and hateful content is not its priority.” propublica.org/article/telegr…

oh so the AI can read as many copyrighted books as it wants for free but when i want to do that it's suddenly an issue

This is extremely bad news.

Dat Nieuwsuur deze racistische retoriek normaliseert! Ipv 'Hoe gevaarlijk zijn omvolkingstheoriën?' Of 'Mogen politici zich bemoeien met baarmoeders?' Als dit over China of Rusland ging waren die vragen wél gesteld. En voxpops op de (witte) Zuidas: heel erg veelzeggend. Gatver.

This is amazing, just for how brazen it is: the leader of Germany's Conservatives blaming every major problem in the country on migration, instead of on the lack of spending by his own party. It isn't migrants who are taking housing stock and hospital beds, but hey, hate sells.

NEW: In Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews today, our latest peer-reviewed research shows fossil fuel companies have systematically infiltrated academia, threatening to bias research and undermine meaningful climate action. THREAD. 📰Open access: bit.ly/FossilFUniv

"The humanitarian crisis in Gaza remains the most pressing news story in the world but it seems that any statement, no matter how factual and well-intentioned, can be skewed and twisted into an offence of the highest order.”

I have documented over 100 human rights violations by Russian paramilitaries, who have killed hundreds of civilians & raped dozens of women in West & Central Africa. I told Reuters Institute how I managed to carryout my investigations despite threats to my life reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/nigerian-…

The key to victory for Ukraine is not in the amount of money, equipment or ammo we give them...it's in our committment to actually giving them all they need to defeat Russia and restore Ukrainian sovereignty. That's in the best interest of the West. dw.com/en/us-uk-germa…

1/Aus dem Interview mit der Berliner Morgenpost am 7./8.9.2024: "Heute haben wir die blühenden Landschaften im Osten. Brandenburg ist – so wie der ganze Osten – eine der wohlhabendsten Regionen in Europa. Das muss man immer wieder betonen. Wenn man das ganze Gejammere hört, kann

"Content that incites violence against Palestinians frequently escapes scrutiny, exposing a glaring double standard in content moderation practices."

Targeted advertising should be prohibited, it constitutes a violation of privacy and undermines civil rights.

“Never in post-war history had a population been made to go hungry so quickly and so completely as was the case for the 2.3 million Palestinians living in Gaza.” -- UN special rapporteur on food. apnews.com/article/israel…

Dass die Parteien angesichts des Erstarkens der AfD nun auf das Thema Migration & Asyl gehen, ist nachvollziehbar, aber strategisch der falsche Weg. Warum? 🧵 1/

Beyond the whopping numbers and the crisp prose lies a harsh truth in the 400 page Draghi report: unless the EU, especially France, Germany and Italy respond, the old continent is on the road to serfdom, trapped between the US and China ft.com/content/92f7ae… via @ft

Political competition in #Germany now about shutting the borders to our neighbors, dialing down #Ukraine assistance and refusing common European debt for much needed investment. Europe's supposed lead nation is dropping the ball. #DraghiReport #Schuldenbremse

18.9. New Research Culture lecture with Professor Axel Bruns Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology): The Filter in Our Heads – Digital Media and Polarisation. Read more here: helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-in…

We cannot accept the situation in which the military dictates the nature of journalistic coverage. Israel must allow journalists into the Gaza Strip, so that everyone can better understand what is happening there -- Today's Haaretz.com editorial haaretz.com/opinion/editor…