Max Zehring
@maxzehring.bsky.social
PhD Student @ TU Ilmenau 🌲
Computational Communication Science 🦑
Researching far-right and conspiracy networks 🕸️
Computational Communication Science 🦑
Researching far-right and conspiracy networks 🕸️
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Max Zehring
@maxzehring.bsky.social
· Aug 15
The language similarity between corona protest mobilizers on Telegram and German politicians on Twitter
Protest movements against COVID-19 containment measures, like Germany’s Querdenken, aim to put their position on the political agenda. The German far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) acted...
doi.org
✨ New open-access paper ✨
We explored language similarity between Querdenken (Telegram) and German politicians (Twitter). In short: AfD’s communication most similar, but parts of FDP and CDU/CSU also find common ground through discrediting left-wing politics.
Full paper:
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
We explored language similarity between Querdenken (Telegram) and German politicians (Twitter). In short: AfD’s communication most similar, but parts of FDP and CDU/CSU also find common ground through discrediting left-wing politics.
Full paper:
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
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New #OpenAccess paper in #EnvironmentalCommunication 🎉:
“Activists Preserving the (Multi-Platform) Environment: Advocacy Coalitions of #Lützerath Climate Protests”
(w/ @pzerrer.bsky.social, Hannah-Marie Büttner & @kudusch.de)
🔗 Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🧵⬇️ Summary Thread:
“Activists Preserving the (Multi-Platform) Environment: Advocacy Coalitions of #Lützerath Climate Protests”
(w/ @pzerrer.bsky.social, Hannah-Marie Büttner & @kudusch.de)
🔗 Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🧵⬇️ Summary Thread:
February 2, 2026 at 3:16 PM
New #OpenAccess paper in #EnvironmentalCommunication 🎉:
“Activists Preserving the (Multi-Platform) Environment: Advocacy Coalitions of #Lützerath Climate Protests”
(w/ @pzerrer.bsky.social, Hannah-Marie Büttner & @kudusch.de)
🔗 Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🧵⬇️ Summary Thread:
“Activists Preserving the (Multi-Platform) Environment: Advocacy Coalitions of #Lützerath Climate Protests”
(w/ @pzerrer.bsky.social, Hannah-Marie Büttner & @kudusch.de)
🔗 Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🧵⬇️ Summary Thread:
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So QAnon spent years spreading conspiracy theories that the government was run by a cabal of elite pedophiles and it turns out they supported the actual cabal of elite pedophiles to get into power and destroy democracy.
January 30, 2026 at 11:05 PM
So QAnon spent years spreading conspiracy theories that the government was run by a cabal of elite pedophiles and it turns out they supported the actual cabal of elite pedophiles to get into power and destroy democracy.
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Proof, if we ever needed any, that the official death toll is a severe undercount. That is not even taking into account indirect deaths, typically ranging from 3 to 15 times the number of direct deaths (see www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... )
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Proof, if we ever needed any, that the official death toll is a severe undercount. That is not even taking into account indirect deaths, typically ranging from 3 to 15 times the number of direct deaths (see www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... )
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
January 27, 2026 at 6:48 PM
My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
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Vor wenigen Tagen eine Podiumsdiskussion mit Lena Kotré, heute wurde der Rechtsextremist Martin Sellner nun auf Einladung der AfD im Thüringer Landtag empfangen. Die Strategie dahinter dürfte – ähnlich wie beim Begriff Remigration – die "Normalisierung" des IB-Kaders sein.
Rechtsextremismus: Thüringer AfD-Abgeordnete empfangen Identitären Martin Sellner
Thüringer AfD-Politiker haben den Chef der Identitären Bewegung in den Landtag eingeladen. Der Rechtsextreme Martin Sellner soll dort über "Remigration" gesprochen haben.
www.zeit.de
January 26, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Vor wenigen Tagen eine Podiumsdiskussion mit Lena Kotré, heute wurde der Rechtsextremist Martin Sellner nun auf Einladung der AfD im Thüringer Landtag empfangen. Die Strategie dahinter dürfte – ähnlich wie beim Begriff Remigration – die "Normalisierung" des IB-Kaders sein.
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Wenn der Faschismus wiederkehrt, spaziert er entspannt und ohne Probleme in den Thüringer Landtag.
January 26, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Wenn der Faschismus wiederkehrt, spaziert er entspannt und ohne Probleme in den Thüringer Landtag.
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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🚨(Software) Update:
In my PhD, I had a side project to fix an annoying problem: when you ask 5 people to label the same thing, you often get different answers. But in ML (and lots of other analyses), you still need a single aggregated answer. Using the majority vote is easy–but often wrong.
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In my PhD, I had a side project to fix an annoying problem: when you ask 5 people to label the same thing, you often get different answers. But in ML (and lots of other analyses), you still need a single aggregated answer. Using the majority vote is easy–but often wrong.
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GitHub - dirkhovy/MACE: Multi-Annotator Competence Estimation tool
Multi-Annotator Competence Estimation tool. Contribute to dirkhovy/MACE development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 20, 2026 at 10:12 AM
🚨(Software) Update:
In my PhD, I had a side project to fix an annoying problem: when you ask 5 people to label the same thing, you often get different answers. But in ML (and lots of other analyses), you still need a single aggregated answer. Using the majority vote is easy–but often wrong.
1/N
In my PhD, I had a side project to fix an annoying problem: when you ask 5 people to label the same thing, you often get different answers. But in ML (and lots of other analyses), you still need a single aggregated answer. Using the majority vote is easy–but often wrong.
1/N
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After going missing for over 2 years the EU has finally found the book on International law. Strange that.
January 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM
After going missing for over 2 years the EU has finally found the book on International law. Strange that.
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🚨NEW PAPER
The Logic of Connective Faction:
How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics
w/ @yunkangyang.bsky.social & @mikecowburn.bsky.social
Online radicalization doesn't just affect the public.
It also reshapes how elites & parties behave. doi.org/10.1080/1058...
The Logic of Connective Faction:
How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics
w/ @yunkangyang.bsky.social & @mikecowburn.bsky.social
Online radicalization doesn't just affect the public.
It also reshapes how elites & parties behave. doi.org/10.1080/1058...
The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics
Across democratic systems, ideological cleavages increasingly emerge not only between but also within political parties. At the same time, hyperpartisan and digitally networked media ecosystems amp...
doi.org
January 5, 2026 at 8:36 AM
🚨NEW PAPER
The Logic of Connective Faction:
How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics
w/ @yunkangyang.bsky.social & @mikecowburn.bsky.social
Online radicalization doesn't just affect the public.
It also reshapes how elites & parties behave. doi.org/10.1080/1058...
The Logic of Connective Faction:
How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics
w/ @yunkangyang.bsky.social & @mikecowburn.bsky.social
Online radicalization doesn't just affect the public.
It also reshapes how elites & parties behave. doi.org/10.1080/1058...
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I think we should bomb AI
January 7, 2026 at 1:03 AM
I think we should bomb AI
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Multilateralismus: tot.
Völkerrecht? Kulisse.
Was zählt: Macht und Gewalt.
Venezuela? der jüngste Beweis.
Völkerrecht? Kulisse.
Was zählt: Macht und Gewalt.
Venezuela? der jüngste Beweis.
January 3, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Multilateralismus: tot.
Völkerrecht? Kulisse.
Was zählt: Macht und Gewalt.
Venezuela? der jüngste Beweis.
Völkerrecht? Kulisse.
Was zählt: Macht und Gewalt.
Venezuela? der jüngste Beweis.
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It’s funny how for Germans when white people occupy another country it’s a “complex” situation
Multilateralismus: tot.
Völkerrecht? Kulisse.
Was zählt: Macht und Gewalt.
Venezuela? der jüngste Beweis.
Völkerrecht? Kulisse.
Was zählt: Macht und Gewalt.
Venezuela? der jüngste Beweis.
January 3, 2026 at 10:10 PM
It’s funny how for Germans when white people occupy another country it’s a “complex” situation
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„Es ist kompliziert“
January 3, 2026 at 10:30 PM
„Es ist kompliziert“
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"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
January 3, 2026 at 2:08 PM
"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
January 3, 2026 at 1:57 PM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
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Das israelische Außenministerium stand offenbar hinter der Mobilisierung von Gegenaktionen, an denen auch Volker Beck und Jutta Ditfurth teilnahmen. Die Strategie – wie ein Mitarbeiter des Ministeriums erklärt – bestand darin, die Konferenz als BDS-Veranstaltung bewusst fälschlicherweise zu framen.
January 2, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Das israelische Außenministerium stand offenbar hinter der Mobilisierung von Gegenaktionen, an denen auch Volker Beck und Jutta Ditfurth teilnahmen. Die Strategie – wie ein Mitarbeiter des Ministeriums erklärt – bestand darin, die Konferenz als BDS-Veranstaltung bewusst fälschlicherweise zu framen.
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POV: Du bist die drittgrößte Volkswirtschaft der Welt.
December 23, 2025 at 7:33 AM
POV: Du bist die drittgrößte Volkswirtschaft der Welt.
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Nach dem #Debanking von DKP und Anarchist Black Cross haben die Sparkasse und GLS-Bank alle (Dutzende!) Konten der #RoteHilfe gekündigt.
Hintergrund ist wohl die Entscheidung Donald Trumps, die "Antifa Ost" als "Terrororganisation" zu listen:
rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/ko...
Hintergrund ist wohl die Entscheidung Donald Trumps, die "Antifa Ost" als "Terrororganisation" zu listen:
rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/ko...
Kontokündigung wegen Antifa: Banken vollstrecken US-Politik in Deutschland
Innerhalb weniger Tage haben zwei Banken die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Verein Rote Hilfe e. V. beendet.
rote-hilfe.de
December 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Nach dem #Debanking von DKP und Anarchist Black Cross haben die Sparkasse und GLS-Bank alle (Dutzende!) Konten der #RoteHilfe gekündigt.
Hintergrund ist wohl die Entscheidung Donald Trumps, die "Antifa Ost" als "Terrororganisation" zu listen:
rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/ko...
Hintergrund ist wohl die Entscheidung Donald Trumps, die "Antifa Ost" als "Terrororganisation" zu listen:
rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/ko...
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And since last week the corresponding dataset paper is also published
**The Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020-2022**
Paper doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
Dataset doi.org/10.4232/1.14...
Appendix osf.io/58sdx/
**The Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020-2022**
Paper doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
Dataset doi.org/10.4232/1.14...
Appendix osf.io/58sdx/
🥳Excited to share our first social media data doi.org/10.4232/1.14... of Telegram COVID-19 protest mobilization 2020–2022 in Germany, covering 5.6M messages from 900+ public channels & groups, conducted by @hdschulze.bsky.social @buehling.bsky.social @maxzehring.bsky.social
DP-R|EX Data publication
Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020–2022 (TGCPD) How did the movement against COVID-19 containment measures take shape? The newly released Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset (TGCPD) provides a uniqu...
dprex.hypotheses.org
December 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
And since last week the corresponding dataset paper is also published
**The Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020-2022**
Paper doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
Dataset doi.org/10.4232/1.14...
Appendix osf.io/58sdx/
**The Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020-2022**
Paper doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
Dataset doi.org/10.4232/1.14...
Appendix osf.io/58sdx/
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New Paper in @computationalcommunication.org
The Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020-2022
with the most wonderful co-autohors @buehling.bsky.social & @maxzehring.bsky.social
>> 2020-2022
>> 715 channels & 229 public groups
>> 5,641,026 messages
>> Manually curated
>> Open for researchers
The Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020-2022
with the most wonderful co-autohors @buehling.bsky.social & @maxzehring.bsky.social
>> 2020-2022
>> 715 channels & 229 public groups
>> 5,641,026 messages
>> Manually curated
>> Open for researchers
December 16, 2025 at 10:23 AM
New Paper in @computationalcommunication.org
The Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020-2022
with the most wonderful co-autohors @buehling.bsky.social & @maxzehring.bsky.social
>> 2020-2022
>> 715 channels & 229 public groups
>> 5,641,026 messages
>> Manually curated
>> Open for researchers
The Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020-2022
with the most wonderful co-autohors @buehling.bsky.social & @maxzehring.bsky.social
>> 2020-2022
>> 715 channels & 229 public groups
>> 5,641,026 messages
>> Manually curated
>> Open for researchers
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🚨new article🚨
"Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today
Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive
🧵Thread🧵
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today
Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive
🧵Thread🧵
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨new article🚨
"Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today
Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive
🧵Thread🧵
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today
Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive
🧵Thread🧵
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Long Thread
Ich will mal was erzählen, was mit dem Sprechen über Rechts zu tun hat. Beschäftigt mich viel.
Ich hab neulich einen Workshop zu Digitalfaschismus gegeben.
Vor mir war ein Redner der über völkische Siedlerbewegungen informiert.
Ich will mal was erzählen, was mit dem Sprechen über Rechts zu tun hat. Beschäftigt mich viel.
Ich hab neulich einen Workshop zu Digitalfaschismus gegeben.
Vor mir war ein Redner der über völkische Siedlerbewegungen informiert.
December 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Long Thread
Ich will mal was erzählen, was mit dem Sprechen über Rechts zu tun hat. Beschäftigt mich viel.
Ich hab neulich einen Workshop zu Digitalfaschismus gegeben.
Vor mir war ein Redner der über völkische Siedlerbewegungen informiert.
Ich will mal was erzählen, was mit dem Sprechen über Rechts zu tun hat. Beschäftigt mich viel.
Ich hab neulich einen Workshop zu Digitalfaschismus gegeben.
Vor mir war ein Redner der über völkische Siedlerbewegungen informiert.