@claesdevreese
Professor of AI, society, media and democracy + Political Communication, U Amsterdam || Director of Digital Democracy Centre, SDU || AlgoSoc || AIMD || Mix of work and private stuff || 🇩🇰🇳🇱🇪🇺🏃🏼🧪☕️🍿🐶🟥🦋
It is hard to put words to the insanity of official presidential and White House communication.
The only marginal upside is that so much is kept for future generations to judge the actions *and* the communication.
Glad i am evoking cross generational emotions... And yes!
Boomer alert 🚨
But coming from Europe 📱 📢
this Japanese train sign is 🎯 🇯🇵 ❤️
🚨New publication:
With @teresaelena.bsky.social we did an expert survey of +/- 100 academics, fact checkers & journalists.
We show that experts are mostly, but not always aligned about disinformation in times of generative AI
@aimediademlab.bsky.social
misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/on-t...
Great resource for anyone engaged or interested in US AI policy and governance from @geomblog.bsky.social and his team www.brown.edu/news/2026-03...
NEW DDC REPORT: DANES ARE INCREASINGLY USING AI
The sixth Citizens, Digitalisation, & AI (CDAI) report continues to track the Danish population’s evolving relationship with digitalization & AI.
DDC researcher & first author Therese Waalen Sandberg provides a quick overview.
youtu.be/94GZzCPo5Ts
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist,
but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false
no longer exist.”
- Hannah Arendt
My choice for Quote of the Day in @stinej.bsky.social series.
Plenty of AI slop during the first day of the election campaign in Denmark.
Most of it is benevolent, satirical, even self-deprecating.
But: using it, normalises it.
And it legitimises uncontrolled usage by party supporters, opponents, and anti-democratic domestic and foreign actors.
Here’s a link to the podcast explaining the choice for this quote. And how it relates to today’s world and my work on disinformation, politics, technology and power
▶️ 🎙️
open.spotify.com/episode/0OAS...
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist,
but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false
no longer exist.”
- Hannah Arendt
My choice for Quote of the Day in @stinej.bsky.social series.
Meta claims to have banned political ads in the EU
Ahead of the Hungarian elections, 457 political ads appeared in the first 6 weeks of 2026 from Orban’s Fidesz and 2 opposition parties.
The no-political-ad policy is not well enforced.
Source: Lakmusz
www.linkedin.com/pulse/russia...
"Private money cannot replace public funding of science"
Thank you @naomioreskes.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🧪 🌊 ⚒️ #scipol
Meta claims to have banned political ads in the EU
Ahead of the Hungarian elections, 457 political ads appeared in the first 6 weeks of 2026 from Orban’s Fidesz and 2 opposition parties.
The no-political-ad policy is not well enforced.
Source: Lakmusz
www.linkedin.com/pulse/russia...
Vi så lidt af det op til KV25 men det bliver det første FV med AI. At spørge ChatGPT eller lignende model pt, ville jeg nok fraråde ...
videnskab.dk/teknologi/bo...
Danish election campaign first poll:
- center left bloc almost has a majority; center right far from
- centrist government (like the current) is an option again
- social democrats do well (compared to recent polls, not comp w/ 2022 elections)
- liberals do poorly, general fragmentation on the right
Podcast drop! Geen Kierkegaard, maar een zeer actueel citaat van Hannah Arendt, geduid door @claesdevreese.bsky.social - tusind tak 🇩🇰▶️ open.spotify.com/episode/0OAS...
This article by Joep van Lit and Carolien van Ham is very useful for those interested in empirically studying democratic erosion in all its complexities.
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Breaking:
Danish elections March 24, 2026
This is the message from PM Mette Frederiksen to the leader of Danish Parliament. To make an announcement of special nature: calling elections 🗳️
#BorgenMoment for those following 🇩🇰 politics.
Danish elections set for March 24
Elections held after surge in support and popularity of incumbent PM Frederiksen following the crisis with the US over Greenland.
www.politico.eu/article/mett...
Being a scholar of elections, media, politics and digital technologies, life is never boring:
Snap elections in Denmark March 24, 2026.
And we are fielding part 1 of an election survey in the next days.
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Breaking:
Danish elections March 24, 2026
This is the message from PM Mette Frederiksen to the leader of Danish Parliament. To make an announcement of special nature: calling elections 🗳️
#BorgenMoment for those following 🇩🇰 politics.
⭐ Call for Applications - ICA PolComm Summer School 2026
📍 University of Leeds
🗓 13–17 July
📅 Deadline: 17:00 GMT, Monday, 30 March 2026
📢 Cohort selected by: 15 April 2026
Full details: polcomm.github.io/summer-school/
Yes please @ec.europa.eu 🎯 Action
Members of the European Parliament demanded "clearer political backing for those sanctioned, a more assertive public defense of the DSA, and concrete steps to shield European regulators and civil society from external pressure"
www.techpolicy.press/eu-parliamen...
Several European countries are considering social media bans for children. We must regulate platforms, not children.
I urge caution:
✅ Focus on "safety by design"
✅ Demand algorithmic transparency
✅ Enforce the #DSA & #HumanRights standards
Read my Shout Out👇
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
💙💛
Some speeches stand out in length but are still meaningless in substance.
Hoe Jim Jordan en de MAGA movement de DSA, civil society, toezichthouders, onderzoekers en journalisten ondermijnen.
Heel belangrijk stuk van @harmbotje.bsky.social en @alexfanta.bsky.social in @ftm.nl
www.ftm.nl/artikelen/nu...
Four years of heroic fighting.
Against a brutal oppressor.
For freedom
For Europe
For peace
🇺🇦 💙 💛
If you are in Tokyo 🇯🇵 next week Thursday…
… then let me know and come by Waseda University where I will give a talk on Generative AI and elections.
Looking forward to presenting recent work and exchanging experiences from a global development with many local flavors and differences.
