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1/ New @Nature! We study how powerful institutions shape the information environment for LLMs. Commercial LLM training is opaque, so we trace a path from state-coordinated media -> training data -> model responses.

“Conflict entrepreneurs”--leaders who frequently use personal insults—are damaging democracy. An analysis of 2.2 million public statements from members of Congress finds that this type of rhetoric is linked to increased media coverage, but has no other benefits. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

🚨🚨 Important update just dropped from @cnam-ie.bsky.social on Vetted Researcher Data Access, Article 40(4-11) of the Digital Services Act #DSA 🚨🚨 Detailed information about the data access process. #commsky #ica #polcomm #csssky #polisky www.cnam.ie/industry-and...

Introducing Datapages, a new project from Mika Braginsky and me. Datapages are open-source templates for creating interactive websites that make research datasets easy to find, explore, and reuse. No coding required for the basic setup. babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/04/data...

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New preprint out today (osf.io/preprints/ps...). We tested whether AI agents are actually infiltrating online surveys. Spoiler alert: they aren't Thread 🧵 [1/9]

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I've built a free open-source intelligence dashboard tracking every coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB) operation Meta has disclosed since 2018. 214 operations. 53 origin countries. $22.7M in ad spend. 71 reports analysed. Access it here! marcowenjones.substack.com/p/i-created-... #disinfo

Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) makes provision for researchers to access data from Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) or Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs) for the purposes of st...

Die Nachrichtennutzung über soziale Medien steigt, 36 Prozent der deutschen Onliner informieren sich mittlerweile über verschiedene Social-Media-Angebote. KI-Chatbots spielen für die Nachrichteninform...

Thanks for the shout-out @jlgleason.bsky.social Web search has changed a lot since early 2000s. Yet, papers still rely on Broder's taxonomy of search intent from that time. It's time to change that! In this paper led by Elsa Lichtenegger we present a new taxonomy, accounting for AI search as well!

I've been thinking about measuring intent in AI-driven web search and came across the perfect paper! Awesome work @aurman21.bsky.social and co-authors! dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...