Postdoc at @ZeMKI_Bremen, @pgmt_lab. PhD in Comm Sciences at @UABBarcelona. @globalvoices Eastern Europe editor. Views my own. @DariaDergacheva@mastodon.world
Bremen, Germany
Joined September 2012
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Russie : Naoko, une jeune chanteuse de rue poursuivie pour avoir interprété des chansons de musiciens interdits limportant.fr/infos-monde/3/… @DergachevaD
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Young Russian street singer charged for singing songs by prohibited musicians
Performing on the streets of St. Petersburg, Naoko chose songs by musicians declared as “foreign agents”. @DergachevaD globalvoices.org/2025/10/22/…
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Russie. Le gouvernement restreint considérablement l'Internet, dressant une liste de sites web et de plateformes que les fournisseurs doivent bloquer limportant.fr/infos-monde/3/… @DergachevaD
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The rage I feel at the decades of brushing off & downplaying these companies as "social media" & failing to see these private companies for what they were:
transnational communications platforms for online speech, a new vector of power, a vacuum waiting for nature to take hold
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Hate saying it but: told you
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Today, an Act harmonising transparency reporting rules under the DSA was adopted. Its uniform templates and reporting periods facilitate the comparability of platforms’ reports on content moderation systems and account terminations: digital-strategy.ec.europa.e…
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More evidence that instead of being passively influenced by misinformation some people actively seek it 🔍
"Overall, it appears that individual choices are driving engagement with unreliable information sources from search, not algorithms."
science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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Growth vs exclusion
I've been living in the US for some time now and I'm trying to wrap my head around the way things are going here.
On the one hand, things are going great, in some ways more than great.
On the other hand, things are... hellish? Dystopian?
A 🧵
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Is this your first AOIR? Feeling a bit unsure or overwhelmed? We get it—conferences can be intense! Join us for the First Timers meet-up on the first day (Oct 31) in Sheffield; Look out for me & @ludludlud, and we’ll help guide you through this experience together #AoIR2024👇🫶💕
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Our new paper takes you Inside the funhouse mirror factory and explains How social media distorts perceptions of norms
0.1 % of users share 80% of fake news!
A tiny proportion of bad actors cause most of the problems and distort the norms.
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Via @CRobertson500 & @KS_delRosario
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🆓Freedom of expression, cyber-libertarianism... Professor @Klonick underlines the ♟️Three-Dimensional Chess of Platform Governance. #Durov #Musk
📖An in-depth conversation by @avcansimsek to discover here ↘️
sciencespo.fr/public/chaire-…
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They aren't quitting science, they're quitting academia.
Nearly 50% of researchers quit science within a decade, huge study reveals go.nature.com/3Y9H9a9
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Final ad spending & targeting data is now available for Austrian election (up to election day)!
On Facebook and Instagram, the far-right and winner of largest share of votes, the FPÖ, has outspend all of their competitors by almost a factor of two.
favstats.github.io/nrw24
Gestern anekdotisch, heute systematisch: @favstats & @whotargetsme haben ein interaktives Dashboard für die NRW 🇦🇹 veröffentlicht! Es zeigt, wen die Parteien versuchen auf FB & Instagram zu erreichen & wieviel % der Budgets in ihre Zielgruppen fließen: favstats.github.io/nrw24/ 🧵
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This @acm_chi paper interviews over 350 counterspeakers, people who engage in direct responses to hate speech. Participants raised concerns about the authenticity of AI-powered counterspeech. Authors call for AI to facilitate (not automate) counterspeech.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36139…
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воувоу, в NYTimes вышла огромная статья про наших дезертиров и Идите лесом
мне кажется очень важно рассказывать, что совсем не все россияне поддерживают эту преступную войну. спасибо Саре и вообще всем журналистам, которые транслируют миру цветную, а не черно-белую картинку
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Remember that one time @TeamYouTube told @MoistCr1TiKaL they were "not going to die on this hill" for Community Guideline strikes over the infamous spongebob roadrage video? @reynoldscj and I published a paper on this + how creators make sense of and challenge YouTube policies
New article! In “User-generated accountability: Public participation in algorithmic governance on YouTube,” @blakeplease and I investigate how YouTube creators act to hold the platform accountable in the face of policy failures and make noise to draw attention to their concerns.
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🌟 Exciting News! 🌟
The Maastricht Centre for European Law (MCEL) is thrilled to announce that the application period for research visits is now officially OPEN! 🚀
Are you working on a project in European law and eager to broaden your research horizons? 🌍
Details below 👇🏻
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🧑⚖️From @FT: "AI companies are facing a wave of copyright litigation and accusations that they are aggressively scraping data from the web, a problem exacerbated as start-ups hit a “data frontier” hindering new advances in the technology."
ft.com/content/e6a4dcae-2bda…
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Rethinking the AI boom, with Daron Acemoğlu ft.com/content/e865a777-501a…