Can we just ditch the delusion that social media platforms are “neutral” carriers? One wonders how much Musk stacked the information war in his favour on this platform… but then no one seems to care because (a) it’s obvious and (b) what can you do

Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing. The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos. 1/ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Public attitudes towards social media field experiments, from @vincentjstraub, @jason_w_burton, Michael Geers, and philipp lorenz-spreen spklr.io/6010aolM

I will now try out the other place and see if the old Twitter vibes can be rebuild 🦋 Let us connect, if you are there too

Ich kann allen nur empfehlen, zu Bluesky zu wechseln & zB dort aktiver als hier auf X zu diskutieren: U.a. weil der Ton auf Twitter seit der Übernahme durch konstant aggressiver wurde & weil seit der US-Wahl erneut Dämme gebrochen sind, welche Aggression hier ausgedrückt wird

Out now in PNAS and led by the amazing Mubashir with a great team from Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) Max Planck Institute for Human Development, our systematic meta-analysis of individual factors for misinformation susceptibility: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Latest from me in MANAGER MAGAZIN on Elon Musk and X as a political tool for winning elections (It's in German so here's a thread with some observations) manager-magazin.de/politik/x-und-…

European Commission launched recently a public consultation on the draft delegated act on access to online platform data for vetted researchers under the #DigitalServicesAct (#DSA). I'm attaching highlights and comments of @Lorenz_Spreen, which include a few of my own replies.👇

I think we have to realize that we have entered a new phase (perhaps not so new in some countries) that has moved from collateral damage from the attention economy to active manipulation of public discourse....

The Twitter exodus has started, but maybe it should have started long ago? Our new study in Nature Communications shows that political abuse on X is a global, widespread, and cross-partisan phenomenon nature.com/articles/s4146…

Bluesky is much better than X !

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"Es werden die Grenzen zwischen dem verwischt, was Menschen gesagt haben & was nicht": Dr. Philipp philipp lorenz-spreen von der #TUDresden & dem Max Planck Institute for Human Development erklärt bei BR24, warum #Deepfakes – insbesondere im Wahlkampf – ein Problem darstellen können. br.de/nachrichten/ne…

We just published #DSA40 Newsletter #2 🙌🏻 In case you read it, 2 things I would like to especially bring to your attention: (1) the role of 'access modalities' in the draft delegated act (2) the potential of single-blind non-public data access in the future Let know what u think

Study: Susceptibility to online misinformation: pnas.org/doi/epub/10.10… "...older age, higher analytical thinking skills, and identifying as a Democrat are associated with higher discrimination ability." "...political identity can shape what people perceive to be true, which

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Not very surprising, but good to have an estimate: "shares without clicks’ (SwoCs) constitute around 75% of forwarded links." nature.com/articles/s4156…

I will stop posting here (stay for watching the dynamics). follow me here: lorenzspreen.bsky.social

Gefährden #Deepfakes die Demokratie? 🫥 Wie lassen sich manipulierte Bilder & Videos erkennen? Und wer setzt sie ein? Darüber spricht im »#Faktencheck« Dr. Philipp philipp lorenz-spreen von Synergy of Systems (SynoSys) an der #TUDresden. Zum Video ➡️ youtu.be/dmrAI3yIhxk