Consumer attitudes towards AI: ‘The findings of the study indicated that the inclusion of the “Artificial Intelligence” term in descriptions of products and services decreases purchase intention, and that emotional trust mediates this relationship.’ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Let's spare a thought for Belarusian political prisoners like Maria Kalesnikava and Viktar Babaryka who are still stuck in Belarusian jails and have not been heard from for over a year.

Elon Musk and his tech bros are basically doing Cambridge Analytica 2.0.

Congratulations Eliza Mitova! Eliza delivered a successful defense of her #PhD thesis on “patterns of interplay in news recommender adoption and reception”, supervised by Frank Esser Claes de Vreese franklin🎓 As the examiners @judith_moeller Mike S. Schäfer said: Great work, well done!

Agree with Mariëlle, just wow

Everyone: Telegram is encrypted. Experts: Telegram IS NOT an encrypted messaging app <CEO gets arrested> News: Telegram is an encrypted messaging app. Experts: Telegram IS NOT an encrypted messaging app.

Great thread by Natalia Krapiva 👩🏻‍💻🕊 on Durov's arrest from a digital rights perspective. This is pretty much my position on Telegram and why Durov's arrest matters as well.

Finally the charges against Pavel Durov has been published: - Complicity - Administration of an online platform to allow an illegal transaction in an organised band, - Refusal to communicate, at the request of the authorised authorities, the information or documents necessary

Interesting leak from Russian investigative outlet. Telegram co-founder Durov made repeated visits to Russia in recent years — despite supposed disagreements with Kremlin — and was even apparently there when the FSB was suing him.

It's because he gets his information from alternative media ecosystems that automatically position themselves in opposition to whatever is perceived to be the mainstream orthodoxy due to a deep sense of distrust and betrayal from mainstream sources of authority, which is

Congrats once again Dr. Simon! It is a great dissertation and it was an honour to be on your commitee, can't wait to see what you will do next!

Political advertisers in the US make heavy use of proxies to avoid Meta's bans on targeting by ethnicity/race. Here we can see both Democrat and Republican advertisers targeting the Latino vote by selecting audiences "interested" in Latin pop/dancing and other proxies.

I genuinely believe 404 Media will have a Pulitzer in the next few years. Unbelievably good, smart, funny, in depth with such a wonderful working knowledge of the internet's depths. I could go on and on about them. They give me hope for journalism itself

Han Kang declines press conference, refuses to celebrate award while people die in wars koreatimes.co.kr/www/culture/20…

🚨 Flashback: In December 2022, we released a report exposing app removals in Russia's App Store, with LGBTQ+ and VPN apps as primary targets. Comparing with China’s App Store, the report reveals Apple’s compromises with authorities. #DigitalRights #Censorship Read more:

I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 2025 at Princeton to work on Comp Social Science/Societal Impact of GenAI/GenAI for SocSci I wrote a bit about my research flavor & interests here: manoelhortaribeiro.github.io/advising Deadline: December 15th (cs.princeton.edu/grad#prospecti…) Please boost!

📢Once again, Apple complies with Russian authorities by removing the "Current Time" news App from Russia's App Store. Read more: rferl.org/a/apple-remova… Our data shows the app was removed at least 4 days ago. See details here: applecensorship.com/app-store-moni… #Censorship #Russia Apple