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By Natali Helberger • September 21, 2026
The Label Paradox: Can AI transparency create more distrust?
To explore questions around AI transparency labels and the EU AI Act, the AI, Media and Democracy...
By Jin Wan • Theo Araujo • Natali Helberger • Claes de Vreese • September 17, 2026
How does political efficacy condition clicks on politics? Understanding information-selection behavior in algorithmic feeds over time
This study uses political efficacy to explain individual differences in selecting political...
By João Pedro Quintais • September 03, 2026
A Jug of Settled-Down Juice: AI Guidelines on Transparency Obligations
João Pedro Quintais discussed with Alba Ribera Martínez (of The Binary Agora) about the European...
By João Pedro Quintais • September 02, 2026
Hey EU, your new rules for ChatGPT don’t cover chat
by Eliza Gkritsi and Pieter Haeck in POLITICO Europe The world’s most popular chatbot is now...
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 João Pedro Quintais • June 25, 2026
Learning Call: GenAI and the DSA’s Systemic Risk Framework
This Learning Call, part of an ongoing series on current issues surrounding the Digital Services...
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 Ernesto de León • December 28, 2025
Hyperpartisan news
This chapter explores hyperpartisan news, a contentious aspect of the contemporary media...
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 Marilù Miotto • Anna Priante • Ting Li • December 10, 2025
Frame Similarity and Online Communities: The Case of Deepfakes on Reddit
In online communities, the exchange of information and knowledge is mediated by the generation,...
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 Dr. Enrico Liscio • November 04, 2025
Will Annotators Disagree? Identifying Subjectivity in Value-Laden Arguments
This study argues that reducing multiple annotations to one “ground truth” can obscure meaningful...
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 Dr. Enrico Liscio • October 25, 2025
Taking a SEAT: Predicting Value Interpretations from Sentiment, Emotion, Argument, and Topic Annotations
This study tests whether language models can better predict how individuals interpret human...
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 Dr. Enrico Liscio • October 07, 2025
News is More than a Collection of Facts: Moral Frame Preserving News Summarization
This paper investigates whether AI-generated news summaries retain journalists’ moral...
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 Ernesto de León • July 18, 2025
How do media contribute to the dissemination of conspiracy beliefs? A field study combining panel and web tracking at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic
As COVID-19 escalated into a global health crisis, pandemic-related conspiracy theories emerged...
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 Marilù Miotto • Anna Priante • Ting Li • June 17, 2025
Seeing Isn’t Believing: How Deepfake Salience Disrupts News Credibility and Sharing on Social Media
The rise of accessible generative AI streamlines deepfakes generation and diffusion, further...
By Ernesto de León • May 18, 2025
Tracing Knowledge Gaps: Investigating the Influence of Education on News Exposure and Knowledge Using Digital Trace Data
This study combines surveys and digital trace data from Switzerland and Germany to examine how...
By Ernesto de León • May 15, 2025
Misperceptions of Public Opinion During Crises: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic
How we perceive the public opinion climate can have important consequences on our own opinions...
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 Ernesto de León • February 11, 2025
Where did you come from, where did you go? News trajectories in Germany and Switzerland
This study uses survey and web-tracking data to map how people in Germany and German-speaking...
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 Ernesto de León • January 29, 2025
Is a single model enough? The systematic comparison of computational approaches for detecting populist radical right content
The rise of populist radical right (PRR) ideas stresses the importance of understanding how...
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 Ernesto de León • November 18, 2024
Panning for gold: Comparative analysis of cross-platform approaches for automated detection of political content in textual data
This paper compares dictionary-based, conventional machine-learning, and deep-learning methods...
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 Ernesto de León • October 16, 2024
Improving the Quality of Individual-Level Web Tracking: Challenges of Existing Approaches and Introduction of a New Content and Long-Tail Sensitive Academic Solution
This article evaluates the quality of data collection in individual-level desktop web tracking...
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 Ernesto de León • May 31, 2024
Personality and political news consumption online: A comparison between self-reports and webtracking data
This study compares self-reported political-news use with web-tracked browsing behaviour to...
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 Ernesto de León • March 20, 2024
Populist Radical-Right Attitudes, Political Involvement and Selective Information Consumption: Who Tunes Out and Who Prefers Attitude-Consonant Information
This study seeks to understand how populist radical-right (PRR) attitudes and political...
By Ernesto de León • March 15, 2024
Hyperpartisan, Alternative, and Conspiracy Media Users: An Anti-Establishment Portrait
This study examines hyperpartisan, alternative, and conspiracy media together as forms of...
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...
