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Felipe Soares @felipebsoares.bsky.social · Sep 3

This month I'll be at the Lines of Engagement conference as part of a panel about "the attention economy" to discuss my work on disinformation and content moderation. If you're interested, have a look at www.linesofengagement.net for more information. The event is hybrid.

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Felipe Soares @felipebsoares.bsky.social · Sep 3

I was just at Dulwich Hamlet vs Whitstable Town for the FA Cup on Saturday. I've also seen the Hamlet play Potters Bar before and the likes of Hashtag United, Leatherhead, Kingstonian and Folkestone Invicta. Non-league team names are unique, to say the least.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · Jun 28

Join us for the Social Media Lab’s 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School. Explore cutting-edge digital methods in this hands-on workshop series. No coding required — we’ll be using @Communalytic.org, a platform for analyzing social media discourse. socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/28/2...

2025 Social Media Lab - Computational Social Science Summer School - Online [July 14-16, 2025 via Zoom] - Social Media Lab

Where: online (via Zoom) When: July 14-16, 2024 Contact Info [email protected] @SMLabTO INSTRUCTORS Join us for the Social Media Lab’s 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School. E...

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Felipe Soares @felipebsoares.bsky.social · Jun 17

New paper with @toledobastos.bsky.social, @ovinhas.bsky.social and @raquelrecuero.bsky.social: "Reverse influence: the social production of disinformation in the 2022 Brazilian general election".

Available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Marco Bastos @toledobastos.bsky.social · Jun 17

Here is our study that offers some validation to the amplification hypothesis (Phillips 2018) and the related, but perhaps less studied, audience capture hypothesis (Weiss and Winter 2018).

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

www.tandfonline.com

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Giada Marino @giadam.bsky.social · Jun 11

🚨Final #veraAI Event is approaching

2️⃣ Half-Day Online Sessions

1️⃣7️⃣ June: Tools + Social Science Research
2️⃣4️⃣ June: Research deep dive

Join us to explore AI vs disinformation from all angles!

ℹ️ and registration form @ veraai.eu/posts/two-ve...

vera.ai presents its outcomes - and invites you all to attend two webinars!

VERification Assisted by AI. R&D & innovation co-funded by the HorizonEU. Continuing WeVerify work. And much more!

veraai.eu

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Center for Advanced Internet Studies @cais-research.bsky.social · May 14

#CAISWorkingGroup on site:
This week at CAIS, we’re happy to be hosting a working group focusing on evaluating the fragility of social media platforms.
ℹ️ Learn more about their work here: www.cais-research.de/en/ags/asses...
#CAIScollege #PlatformGovernance #ContentModeration #Splinternet

Group Picture of the working group focusing on "Assessing the fragility of social media"

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Fabio Giglietto @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social · May 9

Serving on the PhD admission committee this year. We're offering two scholarships in Digital Culture and Communication—one specifically for international candidates.

Know talented candidates passionate about digital culture? Send them our way!

Details: www.uniurb.it/concorsi/9085

Abbiamo pubblicato un nuovo bando nella sezione PhD - Dottorati di Ricerca / SU. Per informazioni, clicca qui.

Avviso pubblicato il giorno 8/5/2025 con scadenza 10/6/2025

www.uniurb.it

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Felipe Soares @felipebsoares.bsky.social · Apr 17

Thanks for sharing it, Axel!

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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · Apr 17

Oooh, this sounds like an exciting project:

Felipe Soares @felipebsoares.bsky.social · Apr 11

I'm looking for a PhD student interested in analysing social media war propaganda through a historical archive from the WWI and WWII. This is a fully-funded opportunity for UK home students (partially-funded for 'overseas' students). Information on how to apply here: www.arts.ac.uk/study-at-ual...

UAL postgraduate research studentships

2 Postgraduate Research studentships awards available for eligible applicants.

www.arts.ac.uk

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Felipe Soares @felipebsoares.bsky.social · Apr 11

Feel free to reach out if you'd like to have a chat about it before applying. The application deadline is 12 May 2025.

Felipe Soares @felipebsoares.bsky.social · Apr 11

I'm looking for a PhD student interested in analysing social media war propaganda through a historical archive from the WWI and WWII. This is a fully-funded opportunity for UK home students (partially-funded for 'overseas' students). Information on how to apply here: www.arts.ac.uk/study-at-ual...

UAL postgraduate research studentships

2 Postgraduate Research studentships awards available for eligible applicants.

www.arts.ac.uk

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Raquel Recuero @raquelrecuero.bsky.social · Apr 9

📢 #Callforpapers: “From Fact-Checking to Community Notes: Structural Shifts in the Fight Against Disinformation on Social Media”

Editors:
Ramón Salaverría, University of Navarra, Spain
Lucas Graves, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.
Raquel Recuero UFPEL/UFRGS

revistas.unav.edu/index.php/co...

Call for Papers, Special Issue 2026: "From Fact-Checking to Community Notes: Structural Shifts in the Fight Against Social Media Disinformation" | Communication & Society

revistas.unav.edu

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · Apr 8

Canadians are split on GenAI’s net societal impact (39% positive, 34% negative, 27% neutral), but unite around key concerns—security and privacy (72%), reliability of information (68%), job displacement (68%), and effects on higher education (68%). socialmedialab.ca/2025/04/08/n...

[New Report] The State of Generative AI Use in Canada 2025: Exploring Public Attitudes and Adoption Trends - Social Media Lab

TORONTO — April 2025 — A majority of Canadians (66%) have experimented with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools less than three years after ChatGPT’s public debut, according to a new repo...

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Raquel Recuero @raquelrecuero.bsky.social · Feb 14

Artigo novo que não tive a chance de divulgar direito, com o @felipebsoares.bsky.social - “How Does the Other Half Tweet?”: Analyzing the Construction of “Otherness” During the 2022 Brazilian Presidential Campaign. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

“How Does the Other Half Tweet?”: Analyzing the Construction of “Otherness” During the 2022 Brazilian Presidential Campaign

This study focuses into the dynamics of discursive othering and populist mobilization in Brazilian politics, specifically focusing on the highly contentious 2022 presidential election between Jair Bol...

link.springer.com

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Adriana Amaral @adriamaral.bsky.social · Feb 6

*AoIR 2025*. Primeira vez enviando trabalho para o congresso e esta cheio de duvidas? Nao sabe o que eles esperam de um resumo?

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Felipe Soares @felipebsoares.bsky.social · Jan 27

Check out our new study on populist discursive strategies during the 2022 Brazilian presidential election campaign on Twitter (w/ @raquelrecuero.bsky.social). If you don't have access to it, send me an email or DM.
#academicsky

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

“How Does the Other Half Tweet?”: Analyzing the Construction of “Otherness” During the 2022 Brazilian Presidential Campaign

This study focuses into the dynamics of discursive othering and populist mobilization in Brazilian politics, specifically focusing on the highly contentious 2022 presidential election between Jair Bol...

link.springer.com

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Felipe Soares @felipebsoares.bsky.social · Jan 20

More evidence to confirm that Zuckerberg's decision to terminate fact-checkers on Meta was a really bad one

The full paper is available open-access at link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Raquel Recuero @raquelrecuero.bsky.social · Jan 3

12 days until the Brazil AOIR 2025 #CFP goes live! Stay tuned, it's getting real people! #ruptures

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EU DisinfoLab @disinfo.eu · Nov 29

How do we respond to evolving disinformation threats and #FIMI campaigns?

Our new response-impact framework goes beyond individual #countermeasures and assess the broader #impact of #responses 💡

How could this framework be applied to an IO such as #Doppelganger? ⬇️
www.disinfo.eu/publications...

Beyond Disinformation Countermeasures: Building a Response-Impact Framework - EU DisinfoLab

How to effectively respond to disinformation threats and FIMI campaigns? The emphasis has been on exposure and raising awareness, but the focus is now shifting towards exploring better response strate...

www.disinfo.eu

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · Nov 22

Building on a report released in 2022, our new 2024 study, “Falling for Russian Propaganda: Understanding the Factors that Contribute to Belief in Pro-Kremlin Disinformation on Social Media,” examines factors that predict belief in pro-Kremlin disinfo narratives. socialmedialab.ca/2024/03/12/n...

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Felipe Soares @felipebsoares.bsky.social · Nov 22

cc/ @ludludlud.bsky.social @vanessavaliati.bsky.social

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Felipe Soares @felipebsoares.bsky.social · Nov 22

Playing with some @bsky.app data about the migration from Twitter to Bluesky using communalytic.org topic analysis. Some key topics include leaving Twitter's toxic atmosphere behind and moving to a more peaceful community.

It sure feels good to have access to data via public APIs again.

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