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By Corinne Cath • Agustin Ferrari Braun • Seda Gürses • July 13, 2026
Rethinking European media infrastructures
European media infrastructure is increasingly dependent on a handful of American Big Tech...
By Natali Helberger • June 15, 2026
Volgens Duitse rechter is Google verantwoordelijk voor inhoud AI-tekst in zoekresultaten
Google is verantwoordelijk voor een aantal onjuiste uitspraken die in een AI-overzicht van...
By Charis Papaevangelou • Sabrina Kutscher • Natali Helberger • José van Dijck • Thomas Poell • June 01, 2026
Shared responsibility, unequal power: Mapping the limitations of multi-stakeholderism in the EU’s digital governance
With the adoption of the Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, Artificial Intelligence Act...
By Agustin Ferrari Braun • May 08, 2026
“Reliable and cheap”?: Examining the adoption of the cloud by European news media companies
This article by Agustin Ferrari Braun (University of Amsterdam) argues that the widespread...
By Ernesto de León • Fabio Votta • Daniel Oberski • Theo Araujo • Claes de Vreese • March 30, 2026
How Much Data Should I Request? Balancing Richness and Compliance in Digital Trace Data Donations
Asking people to donate more of their social media data can lead to richer results, but may also...
By Natali Helberger • Marilù Miotto • March 09, 2026
Understanding AI transparency
Insights from the AlgoSoc team and the AI, Media & Democracy Lab for the AI Office...
By Marilù Miotto • March 02, 2026
Not Just Fake News: Deepfakes and the Crisis of Trust
In recent years, deepfakes have become a common subject in political discussions, often seen as...
By Agustin Ferrari Braun • Corinne Cath • January 29, 2026
Clouded judgments: Problematizing cloud infrastructures for news media companies
This article by Agustin Ferrari Braun (University of Amsterdam) and Dr. Corinne Cath (University...
By Fabio Votta • December 28, 2025
Large language models
This entry examines the role of LLMs in political communication research, tracing their...
By Marilù Miotto • Jin Wan • Fabio Votta • December 28, 2025
Filter bubbles
This entry explores the concept of filter bubbles, a digital phenomenon where algorithmic content...
By Dr. Enrico Liscio • December 20, 2025
Signs of Struggle: Spotting Cognitive Distortions across Language and Register
This study tests whether models trained to detect cognitive distortions in text can generalize to...
By Ernesto de León • Fabio Votta • November 30, 2025
Classifying TikToks Locally: Political Content Detection with Phi-4 on Android
Can AI directly analyze political content displayed on phones without sending sensitive screen...
By Fabio Votta • November 05, 2025
What data reveals about Meta and Google’s political ad ban in the EU
When Meta and Google announced they would ban political advertising in the European Union ahead...
By Ernesto de León • Fabio Votta • Theo Araujo • Claes de Vreese • October 28, 2025
1 in 10 Dutch citizens are likely to ask AI for election advice. This is why they shouldn't
Would you trust an AI to tell you who to vote for?
By Ernesto de León • Fabio Votta • Theo Araujo • Claes de Vreese • October 14, 2025
Can tailored recruitment messaging increase digital trace data donation compliance?
Digital trace data donations offer valuable insights for social science research, but securing...
By Charis Papaevangelou • Fabio Votta • September 22, 2025
Trading nuance for scale? Platform observability and content governance under the DSA
Keywords: Digital Services Act, content moderation, platform governance, automated moderation, EU...
By Agustin Ferrari Braun • July 04, 2025
Imagining the Future of European Digital Infrastructures
We find ourselves at a crossroads: current digital infrastructures are faltering, increasingly...
By Agustin Ferrari Braun • April 16, 2025
Independent media has an infrastructural problem
Independent media outlets are increasingly dependent on Big Tech infrastructure—such as cloud...
By Agustin Ferrari Braun • Charis Papaevangelou • April 29, 2025
Information Ecosystems and Troubled Democracy: Dutch Policy Reflections
The Observatory on Information and Democracy recently published its report on Information...
By Claes de Vreese • March 26, 2025
Will Europe Sacrifice the Digital Services Act in Negotiations with Trump?
Imagine this: Providers of very large online platforms (VLOPs) walking away from the commitments...
By Charis Papaevangelou • February 28, 2025
State, platform capitalism and infrastructural power: Microsoft's data centres in Greece 2.0
In recent years, data centres have become critical infrastructures, supporting cloud computing,...
By José van Dijck • February 26, 2025
Misinformatie in de gezondheidszorg
In de nieuwste aflevering van De Stem van de Dokter duiken Federatievoorzitter Piet-Hein Buiting...
By Fabio Votta • February 24, 2025
AI transparency in political campaigns: The CampAIgn Tracker for the 2025 German Election
For political campaigns, Artificial intelligence (AI) has introduced both innovative strategies...
By José van Dijck • February 12, 2025
Grote techbedrijven manipuleren onze meningen
Amerikaanse socialmediaplatforms schaften moderatie en factchecken af, onder het mom van vrijheid...
By Moniek Buijzen • February 11, 2025
Let's take back control of social media
A handful of Big Tech multimillionaires are influencing our information, our politics and our...
By Dr. Enrico Liscio • February 10, 2025
Value preferences estimation and disambiguation in hybrid participatory systems
Understanding citizens’ values is essential for creating more citizen-centric policies. In...
By Charis Papaevangelou • January 27, 2025
Free speech was never the goal of tech billionaires. Power was.
Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to dismantle Meta’s US fact-checking partnerships...
By Marilù Miotto • Anna Priante • Ting Li • December 15, 2024
Content matters: The role of deepfake content in shaping news credibility and engagement
Social media platforms have changed citizens’ news consumption habits, making it important to...
By Charis Papaevangelou • October 24, 2024
Anti-vaccination and COVID-19 Scepticism on Greek-speaking Social Media: A Form of Far-right Propaganda
This study uses quantitative and qualitative research methods on social media...
By Fabio Votta • October 03, 2024
Accepting Exclusion: Examining the (Un)Intended Consequences of Data-Driven Campaigns
Political campaigns can use citizens’ data not just to target voters, but to deliberately leave...
By Charis Papaevangelou • July 26, 2024
A cure worse than the disease? The controversy on Twitter around a fake COVID-19 treatment from France
This paper combines network analysis and the text analysis of 1.2 million tweets to examine the...
By Charis Papaevangelou • Fabio Votta • May 29, 2024
Content moderation and platform observability in the Digital Services Act
Social media platforms may feel like open spaces for public deliberation, yet they rely...
By Agustin Ferrari Braun • Charis Papaevangelou • May 27, 2024
Journalism in the age of AI, platformisation, and regulation
Digital platforms have fundamentally transformed infrastructures of communication and, in so...
April 03, 2024
The EU AI Act and its implications for the media sector
As the first comprehensive law on artificial intelligence, all eyes are currently on the European...
By José van Dijck • February 13, 2024
'Waarborg grondrechten in de digitale ruimte'
De afgelopen drie decennia heeft AlgoSoc principle investigator José van Dijck het internet...
By Claes de Vreese • November 28, 2023
A wave of generative AI disinformation?
The broad roll out of generative AI tools poses new challenges for democracies: Generative AI...
By Claes de Vreese • May 15, 2023
AI and Political Communication
How will artificial intelligence (AI) impact the field of political communication? This seems to...
By Natali Helberger • April 20, 2023
ChatGPT and the AI Act
It is not easy being a tech regulator these days. The European institutions are working hard...
By Natali Helberger • Claes de Vreese • April 20, 2023
The EU is going too far with political advertising!
The EU is set to complement the DSA with a new regulation on (targeted) political advertisements....
By Natali Helberger • April 19, 2023
On the draft European Media Freedom Act
In December last year, Twitter suspended without notification the accounts of several leading...
By Natali Helberger • April 20, 2023
The platform-media relationship in the European Media Freedom Act
The European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) proposal takes aim at very large online platforms’...
By Fabio Votta • August 23, 2022
Electoral and religious correlates of COVID-19 vaccination rates in Dutch municipalities
Beyond a public health issue, COVID-19 vaccination was also an issue of political and social...
