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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 3d

Check out TildeOpen LLM: Europe’s Sovereign Multilingual AI

An open-source, foundational LLM (Large Language Model) for European languages – secure, adaptable, and ready for governments, institutions, and enterprises.

tilde.ai/tildeopen-llm/

TildeOpen LLM Applications | AI for Every Sector

Discover how TildeOpen LLM powers customer support, legal workflows, content creation, and more across governments and enterprises.

tilde.ai

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 6d

Breaking: Dutch court rules that Meta needs to offer chronological/ non algorithmic feed as clear and stable option (to Dutch users).

Changes must be implemented in two weeks. 100,000 euro fine per day if non compliant.

Case brought fwd by @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social

nos.nl/l/2584891

Rechter: Instagram en Facebook moeten algoritmevrije optie krijgen

Bits of Freedom eiste dat in een rechtszaak en kreeg gelijk van de Nederlandse rechter.

nos.nl

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · Aug 3

Welcome to the ✨For You✨ feed!

It finds people who liked the same posts as you, and shows you what else they've liked recently.

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Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social · 6d

Timeless.

Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social · 11d

Together, political predators and digital conquistadors have decided to wipe out the old elites and their rules. If they succeed, it will not only be the parties of lawyers and technocrats that will be swept away, but also liberal democracy as we have known it until today ↘️ on.ft.com/4nVwSII

How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power

Digital moguls and strongman leaders are far more than disrupters of the old liberal order. Together they seek to sweep it away, writes Giuliano da Empoli

on.ft.com

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Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social · 12d

Wanna know more about #data #access and the Digital Services Act? Here’s our latest policy paper about how it works👇

www.weizenbaum-library.de/items/86842c...

#commsky #polisky #dsa @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

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Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social · 13d

Key take-aways and a little bit of optimism from the @rebekahtromble.bsky.social keynote at the #Data #Access Days: collaborate, joint access requests, use DSA 40.4 as a route into 40.12. Solidarity & strategy are key, the academic community must come together and get it together. 🔥

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Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social · 13d

“Article 40 won’t save us”: A full house for brilliant @rebekahtromble.bsky.social giving keynote at the Data Access Days in Berlin @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social 🚀💪🔥
#data #dataaccess #commsky #polisky

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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 16d

Out now: Our latest Policy Paper dives into the key provisions of the Digital Services Act #DSA on data access, highlighting its goals, procedures, limits, & external factors impacting implementation: 🔗 doi.org/10.34669/WI....

Cover: LK Seiling, Clara Iglesias Keller, Jakob Ohme, Ulrike Klinger, Claes de Vreese. Data Access for Researchers under the Digital Services Act: From Policy to Practice. Weizenbaum Policy Paper 15, September 2025.

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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 13d

Mit dem Digital Services Act versucht die EU ihre Bürger*innen vor den Risiken digitaler Plattformen zu schützen. Wir sprachen mit LK Seiling, Co-Autor unseres neusten Policy Papers, wie das inmitten geopolitischer Spannungen mit den USA funktionieren kann. #DSA40
Zum Interview 👉 buff.ly/5zISV6z

Was, wenn die Plattformen einfach mit den Schultern zucken?

Mit dem Digital Services Act versucht die EU ihre Bürger*innen vor den Risiken digitaler Plattformen, großteils US-amerikanischer, zu schützen. Wir sprachen mit LK Seiling, Co-Autor eines neuen…

www.weizenbaum-institut.de

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Hot Politics Lab @hotpoliticslab.bsky.social · 21d

🎓 This Friday (19.09), we are honored to welcome professor @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social to the #HotPoliticsLab! She will present her work on Facebook user reactions to party campaigning.

📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22)
💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...

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Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social · Aug 24

Discussing #AI and #democracy at the German Foreign Office‘s Open House, with Andreas Nitsche, Siyuan He and Thomas Mann House Los Angeles. 🤖@germany.diplo.de

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Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social · Aug 22

Congrats! Fantastic news 🎉

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Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social · Aug 22

Congrats!

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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · Aug 13

What I wouldn't give to have access to data on use of this - "Google is rolling out a new feature called “Preferred Sources” ... which allows users to select their preferred choice of news sites and blogs to be shown in the Top Stories section [of] search results." techcrunch.com/2025/08/12/g...

Google will now let you pick your top sources for search results | TechCrunch

Google will let you define the top sources to get more stories from those sites.

techcrunch.com

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Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social · Aug 12

„Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent (…). That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates“

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

www.nytimes.com

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Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social · Aug 2

Und die tolle Forschung von @favstats.eu zu Microtargeting wird natürlich auch erwähnt!

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Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social · Aug 2

Keine politische Werbung mehr bei Google & Meta – was soll das und was ist das Big Picture?

Heute war ich Studiogast bei #Breitband im Deutschlandfunk Kultur, mein Interview ab ca 15:30 min.

www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/mehr-ueberwa...
@deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy

Datenpolizei: Dobrindt erwägt bundesweiten Palantir-Einsatz

Innenminister Dobrindt lässt den bundesweiten Einsatz von Palantir-Software prüfen. Schafft deren Datenanalyse mehr Sicherheit oder schadet sie dem Datenschutz?

www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de

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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · Aug 2

Zorgwekkend 🫠 TikTok staat op het punt om zijn moderatieteam in Berlijn te ontslaan en te vervangen door onderaannemers en artificiële intelligentie. Ook de Nederlandstalige moderatoren van TikTok werken in Berlijn 👇🏻
@dorienvanmeldert.bsky.social
vrtnws.be/p.0Yl9ylZdM

TikTok ontslaat volledige moderatieteam in Berlijn. Is er straks nog controle die Nederlands begrijpt? | VRT NWS: nieuws

TikTok staat op het punt om zijn moderatieteam in Berlijn te ontslaan en te vervangen door onderaannemers en artificiële intelligentie. Ook de Nederlandstalige moderatoren van TikTok werken in Berlijn...

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DSA40 Data Access Collaboratory @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social · Aug 1

It’s been a while — but our newsletter is finally here!

In this edition, we skip the “risk in focus” to bring you:
🛠️ An update on what we’ve been doing
📊 Our top 5 insights data access highlights
🗓️ An overview of upcoming calls, workshops, and ongoing surveys

dsa40collaboratory.eu/newsletters/...

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Jul 29

First: regulation is not the opposite of innovation when it comes to AI

Second: citizens want AI to be regulated.
🇺🇸 🇪🇺 and elsewhere: listen to your citizens.

See evidence from 5 continents 🌍 in our @techpolicypress.bsky.social piece

@aimediademlab.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/governments-...

Governments Want to Ease AI Regulation for Innovation, But Do Citizens Agree? | TechPolicy.Press

A 2025 survey across six countries finds that citizens are not in favor of deregulation and allowing AI innovation to progress unchecked.

www.techpolicy.press

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Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social · Jul 30

Fantastic PostDoc opportunity @gesis.org in a stellar team 👇

Sebastian Stier @sebstier.bsky.social · Jul 29

🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science
Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data
💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne
📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
#DSA #CSS #DataScience

Details

GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

www.gesis.org

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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · Jul 29

To all the #DSA experts and data access enthusiast out there, before you go on holiday, sign up & save the date for the #dsa40 data access days in Berlin, September 25 & 26!

2 days with keynotes, panels, expert insights and practical guidance 👉 dsa40collaboratory.eu/data-access-...

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Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social · Jul 29

Entscheiden ChatGPT & Co bald, wen wir wählen? Meine Antwort im @tagesspiegel.de (Spoiler: Wir sollten Sprachmodelle nicht zur Meinungsbildung und für Wahlempfehlungen nutzen, erst recht nicht aus Bequemlichkeit.)
www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/digi...

KI und Meinungsbildung: Entscheiden ChatGPT & Co bald, wen wir wählen?

KI-Anwendungen sind nicht neutral. Zugleich sind Chatbots teils überzeugender als Menschen, wenn es um politische Meinungen geht, zeigen Studien. Experten schätzen die Folgen ein.

www.tagesspiegel.de

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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · Jul 21

„Wer beim Forschungsdatenzugang jetzt liefern muss” –
@lkseiling.bsky.social, @dscheykopp.bsky.social,
@claesdevreese.bsky.social & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social heute im @tspbackground.bsky.social:

🔗 t1p.de/zf6pa ⬅️

#dsa @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social

Wer beim Forschungsdatenzugang jetzt liefern muss

Das letzte Puzzlestück für den Forschungszugang für nicht öffentlich verfügbare Plattformdaten ist da. Die Aufgaben für DSCs, Forschende und Plattformen sind nun klar verteilt. Die Wissenschaftler:inn...

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