This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here.
🚨 Our Digital News Report 2026 is out!
Authored by Jim Egan, Craig T. Robertson, Amy Ross Arguedas, Nic Newman, Rasmus Nielsen, Mitali Mukherjee and Richard Fletcher, it is based on 100K interviews in 48 markets
Full report
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...
7 findings in thread
The *most debated* ballot since @foeg.bsky.social data begins: no prop has generated as many articles as the upcoming vote to cap the population.
The media tone is very critical. Yet still the radical right SVP as the only major actor in favor gets the most attention www.foeg.uzh.ch/de/research/...
✨New paper out @nature.com ✨ For 8 weeks around the 2024 US election, we randomly assigned 2,000 people to use social media algos we built ourselves. Do engagement-based algorithms amplify intergroup, moral & emotional (IME) content—and does that distort how we see political norms? 🧵🔗 👇
Video
Can LLMs Emulate Human Belief Dynamics? 🧪
The answer is a clear no.
[The findings] raise a sharp
warning against deploying LLMs as human proxies in social simulations.
arxiv.org/pdf/2605.18781
#SyntheticData #EsWirdImmerAbsurder
Happy to share that the Social Computing Group received the Best Poster Award at the inaugural UZH.ai Interdisciplinary Lab Exchange & Poster Session 🚀
We presented our research on AI from three angles: user, system, and interaction.
Many thanks to @uzhai.bsky.social for organizing the event.
A big shout-out to Michael Correll (is he on Bluesky...?) for this blog post which is ::chef's kiss:: as a bridge to HCI from my work on ethics education in the context of "hey maybe let's re-think what it means to be good at computer science."
mcorrell.medium.com/the-othering...
Carole Cadwalladr
Reuters Institute
Rahel Freiburghaus
Und weil Palantir jetzt nicht zufrieden ist, dass ihre ellenlange Gegendarstellung nirgendwo abgedruckt wird, publizieren sie sie einfach selber😄 palantir.medium.com/response-to-...
Editor’s Note: The English translation of this statement is below.
palantir.medium.com
William J. Brady
Julia Partheymüller
LeeWas
Dr. Casey Fiesler
Adrienne Fichter
I somehow vividly remember this exact issue at IC2S2 in Copenhagen a couple of years ago. Computational social science is skewed this way as well.
Aleksandra Urman
If the line for the mens bathroom is long and there is no line for the womens' bathroom you may very well be at AWS re: invent or another tech conference.
