📰 I spoke to the Cincinnati Enquirer about the viral "JD Vance killed the Pope" meme—and what it reveals about irony, s***posting, and how misinformation, humor, and algorithmic amplification blur online.

In a new paper for Convergence Journal, Pam Briggs & I examine the challenges Instagram & TikTok creators at risk of de-platforming face when holding onto communities, arguing that these spaces' turn towards entertainment & selling is producing fatigue: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

From Ukraine🇺🇦 to Gaza🇵🇸, Syria🇸🇾, Lebanon🇱🇧, and now India🇮🇳 & Pakistan🇵🇰, creators use SM platforms to make their conflicts more visible. They're curators, eyewitnesses, and living archives of atrocity. We (Moa Eriksson Krutrök) call them *War Influencers*; OA paper Platforms & Society 🧵