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In an interview with the University of Bremen's online magazine, ZeMKI member Professor Dr. Christian Katzenbach reports on how the denial of responsibility by large tech companies such as Meta and X can affect democracy.

ZeMKI member Prof. doctor Stephanie Geise in the current article by "buten un binnen" examining how the top candidates of the Bremen parties design their campaign strategies on social media.

From February 10–12, Prof. Cornelius Puschmann and Yuru Li from the DCID Lab are participating in the BIDT-LMU Joint Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Counter-Speech in Munich to discuss how AI is shaping online discourse.

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero, from our ZeMKI’s Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology, is delivering two guest lectures at University College Dublin (UCD) on February 18 & 20, 2025.

In the next session of the PGMT-Lab online talk series ‘Behind the Scenes - Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research’, Emillie de Keulenaar from the University of Groningen will be our guest.

We are excited to announce the release of OpenQDA 1.0! This major update brings numerous improvements that make working with OpenQDA even more intuitive, efficient, and enjoyable.

At the ZeMKI General Assembly on January 24, 2025, Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (right) and Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler (left) were confirmed in office as ZeMKI spokespersons for a further two years. In addition, Sandra (…)

DCID member Jan Rau is quoted as an expert on right-wing extremism on social media in an article in the French newspaper 'Le Monde' on the influence of far-right accounts on Elon Musk's perspective on Europe.

A new study by ZeMKI members Sami Nenno and Prof. Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID Lab, published in “The International Journal of Press/Politics”, examines the variation of news values in fake news in non-Western countries.

In her article „Shutting down the net: The growing threat of Russian internet censorship“, from January 22, 2025, ZeMKI member Dr. Daria Dergacheva sums up the latest developments in internet censorship in Russia.

ZeMKI member Professor Dr. Andreas Hepp reports on the molo news platform on Deutschlandfunk's format @mediasres.

Horizont Editor Helena Birkner reports on the continuing success and development of the app 'molo'.