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martin johannes riedl
@martinriedl.bsky.social
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asst prof, school of journalism and media @ university of tennessee | topics: political influencers, platform governance, content moderation, chat and messaging apps, journalism | he/him | 🇪🇺 alien | www.martinriedl.com | opinions: own
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martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social · Aug 22
This last acad year, I spent time in Munich at @caslmu.bsky.social, working with a fab group of folks led by @sahanaudupa.bsky.social on a policy report on encrypted messaging apps and extreme speech.

Report is out & below is a summary of findings & recommendations in @techpolicypress.bsky.social 🔽
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · Aug 22
Extreme speech thrives in encrypted spaces, but killing encryption won’t stop it, says a group of researchers who have studied the problem from multiple angles. We need context-driven governance, not backdoors, they say.
Policy Directions on Encrypted Messaging and Extreme Speech | TechPolicy.Press
Encryption, disinformation, and democracy: rethinking policy for messaging apps with rights-based safeguards.
www.techpolicy.press
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Center for Advanced Studies @caslmu.bsky.social · 2d
The #CASResearchGroup around Sahana Udupa @sahanaudupa.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social has come to an end, but the project will continue.

www.cas.lmu.de/de/programme...
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 5d
Warum Verschlüsselung wichtig ist und bleibt, hat uns Plattformforscher @martinriedl.bsky.social ebenfalls im Interview erklärt. Er führt einige Beispiele aus den USA an. buff.ly/YuyQpsq
Chatkontrolle: „Hey Plattformen, regelt das mal.“
Im Interview spricht Martin Riedl, Plattformforscher an der University of Texas at Austin, über die Relevanz von verschlüsselten Apps, wie Content Moderation jenseits von Client-Side-Scanning…
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Jordan Fischer @jordanonrecord.bsky.social · 11d
It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.
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martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social · 13d
slop machine
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Zoë Schiffer @zoeschiffer.bsky.social · 13d
Scoop with @lmatsakis.bsky.social: OpenAI is about to launch a TikTok-style social app for AI generated videos. We got the deets (and the docs): www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI Is Preparing to Launch a Social App for AI-Generated Videos
The platform appears to closely resemble TikTok and is powered by Sora 2, OpenAI's latest video generation model.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 16d
OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.
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martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social · 19d
This is but a small gripe in light of the weight of the world, but here's my annual complaint about the misuse of 'crescendo' in U.S. journalism. Reader, it does NOT mean the climax of something, but the process of getting louder as the late Miles Hoffman wrote in '13
www.nytimes.com/2013/07/29/o...
Opinion | A Crescendo of Errors (Published 2013)
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martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social · 23d
I recently spoke with @sachapfeiffer.bsky.social of @npr.org for a story on Democrats and their social media capabilities - aired on All Things Considered today.
Listen to it here ⬇️⬇️⬇️
www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...
Social video and podcasts are the next frontier for Democrats seeking office
Some political strategists say Democrats are falling behind Republicans in reaching voters in an important way: They're not active enough on platforms like TikTok.
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martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social · Sep 8
here's an idea: before provosts buy new software and force faculty to use it for annual reviews (like sympletic elements), they should be mandated to manually enter a few CVs themselves. i have a hunch that there would be a certain degree of deterrence
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martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social · Sep 5
i was gonna complain again about peer review, but everything has been said already...🤦‍♂️
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martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social · Sep 4
wowowow - big news indeed. all the congratulations!!
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Aug 26
Just bringing this thread back for reasons.

An untenured woman assistant professor burned a flag in her class for pedagogy in 1989 and it remains the most badass thing any colleague I’ve had has ever done and I’ve had some pretty badass colleagues
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Mar 26
I have a emeritus colleague who burned a flag *in her classroom* the same year as the decision to illustrate the strength of personal objections that would arise and the meaning of “symbolic speech.” Every time I see her I’m just like, wow, badass.
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martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social · Aug 22
when you get edits back on a paper and the person made line edits to direct quotes 🤦‍♂️ (not mentioning any names here 🤣)
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martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social · Aug 22
This last acad year, I spent time in Munich at @caslmu.bsky.social, working with a fab group of folks led by @sahanaudupa.bsky.social on a policy report on encrypted messaging apps and extreme speech.

Report is out & below is a summary of findings & recommendations in @techpolicypress.bsky.social 🔽
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · Aug 22
Extreme speech thrives in encrypted spaces, but killing encryption won’t stop it, says a group of researchers who have studied the problem from multiple angles. We need context-driven governance, not backdoors, they say.
Policy Directions on Encrypted Messaging and Extreme Speech | TechPolicy.Press
Encryption, disinformation, and democracy: rethinking policy for messaging apps with rights-based safeguards.
www.techpolicy.press
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martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social · Aug 21
They are so lucky to get you, @jolukito.bsky.social! 👏👏👏 can’t wait for all the things you will accomplish in Denmark 🇩🇰
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Jo(sephine) Lukito @jolukito.bsky.social · Aug 21
💓I am so (so, so) very excited to be joining @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social, starting February 2026, where I will continue my work on computational methods/AI, researcher data access, multi-platform language flows, and political extremism. 💓

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Digital Democracy Centre @ddc-sdu.bsky.social · Aug 21
We are thrilled to announce that Josephine (“Jo”) Lukito will join the DDC as Professor in Digital Communication and DIAS Chair!
@jolukito.bsky.social is a leading expert in the fields of political communication & computational methods, & will join us starting Feb 1, 2026.
Velkommen til DCC Jo! 🤗🎉
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martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social · Aug 14
as someone who's been studying political influencers for a few years now, i recommend this piece in @gqmagazine.bsky.social on hasan piker (for the uninitiated)

www.gq.com/story/hasan-...
Hasan Piker Thinks America Might Be Cooked
Martial law. Canceled elections. The combative leftist streamer Hasan Piker predicts an ominous possible future for the US. He’s fighting back the only way he knows how: by raging against Trump, Israe...
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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · Aug 11
CDT’s @jakelaperruque.bsky.social in the Nashville Scene on the risks of Tennessee’s police use of phone-tracking technology. www.nashvillescene.c...
Police Across Tennessee Are Using Powerful Phone-Hacking Tech
MNPD’s use of the controversial GrayKey tool raises privacy concerns
www.nashvillescene.com
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 1
🔔 “We’re coming to you from MEMPHIS to alert you of the critical nature of what’s happening right here in NASHVILLE.”

Richard Massey says Elon’s xAI pollution is having a “human cost” in Memphis, and with this Tesla Tunnel @GovBillLee is “elevating profit over people” again
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Die Grünen @gruene.at · Jul 9
"Wir wissen nicht, wer morgen im Innenministerium für den Geheimdienst zuständig sein wird. Was wir jetzt beschließen, gefährdet uns alle: weil der Geheimdienst potenziell die Möglichkeit hat, auf uns alle zuzugreifen. Das wird es mit uns Grünen nicht geben."🗨️ @almazadic.bsky.social #OeNR
Alma Zadić am Rednerinnenpult im NR. Sie hält eine Tafel hoch: Ein Foto von einer Demonstration, auf der Neos gegen den Bundestrojaner demonstrieren; auch auf dem Foto: Beate Meinl-Reisinger mit einem Schild auf dem steht: "Nicht wegschauen beim Überwachen".
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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · Jul 26
From the people who tried everything in their power to curtail misinformation research because it is "censorship" (it isn't), here is the next instalment of a political commissar to exercise actual censorship at a major network: gizmodo.com/fcc-to-a...
FCC to Appoint a Babysitter to Make Sure CBS Isn't Anti-Trump
FCC commissioner Brendan Carr says CBS will have a "bias monitor."
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martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social · Jul 18
Finally got my hands on @mckenziewark.bsky.social’s “Raving” - can’t wait to read 🪩
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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · Jul 18
This week, we celebrated the official launch of the Institute for Research on Far-Right Extremism (IRex) at the @unituebingen.bsky.social. It was a festive and hopeful occasion - much needed in the current political climate. Thank you to all who came and made it happen. 👏
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martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social · Jul 16
Kevin Saunderson to the rescue - Paragon resurrected! 🪩 www.bkmag.com/2025/07/16/p...
Paragon is Re-Opening With Help From Techno Legend Kevin Saunderson
Kevin Saunderson, a Brooklyn-born Detroit techno architect, is stepping in to give Paragon a second life in Bushwick.
www.bkmag.com
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martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social · Jul 10
Very cool! 😎
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martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social · Jun 26
ah but why did I even for a second doubt that corporate forces in the u.s. would succeed in weaponizing fair use doctrine successfully toward their ends?
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NPR @npr.org · Jun 26
A judge's ruling this week opens a potential pathway for AI companies to train their large language models on copyrighted works without the authors' consent.
In a first-of-its-kind decision, an AI company wins a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by authors
U.S. District Judge William Alsup's ruling this week, in a case brought by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson last year, opens a potential pathway for AI companies to train their large language models on copyrighted works without authors' consent — but only if copies of the works were obtained legally.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Jun 26
AI infrastructure may exacerbate past harms that previous fossil fuel industries have imposed upon communities of color, excusing its extractive and harmful impacts in the name of progress and innovation, writes Kapor Foundation tech policy associate Cecilia Marrinan.
Data Center Boom Risks Health of Already Vulnerable Communities | TechPolicy.Press
We must examine data center locations in tandem with cumulative historical and societal contexts, writes the Kapor Foundation's Cecilia Marrinan.
www.techpolicy.press
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