Und zur gleichen Zeit, also während der Umgang der Union mit dem Wahlergebnis offensichtlich trumpesk ist und Weimer - Merz' Buddy - als Kulturkämpfer durch die Kulturlandschaft pflügt, bekommt Merz Lob für sein "Versprechen", niemals mit der AfD zusammenzuarbeiten.
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anytime i run into that "dem candidates don't owe you anything, not even trying to motivate you to vote for them" kinda stuff i try to picture how obama's campaign in '08 would've gone with a platform and message of "i don't owe you shit"
The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
Die Affäre um den Deutschen Buchhandlungspreis geht weiter: Der Beauftragte für Kultur und Medien (BKM) hat die drei ausgeschlossenen Buchhandlungen belogen. In einer E-Mail vom Februar teilte der BKM ihnen mit, die Jury hätte sich nicht für sie entschieden. Das war unwahr. (1/6)
This is absolutely INSANE! Israel has attacked Israel and Lebanon, unprovoked, but for the EU Hezbollah is the problem. 🤷♂️
Was die Erfolge der AfD und ähnlicher Parteien unter "Arbeitern" anbelangt, weist Melinda Cooper in ihrem Beitrag in OBEN RECHTS darauf hin, dass es sich dabei oft um kleine Selbstständige handelt, die sich selbst als Arbeiter kategorisieren. Darauf hat auch @nilskumkar.bsky.social hingewiesen.
Hard agree with this analysis. I think a main contradiction of the Silicon Valley/tech right is a vision of decentralization and extra-territoriality that is in fact backed up by US might and force. The Network State is actually the US 'empire'.
This is, unfortunately, the logical & inevitable endpoint of where Democrats have been for two decades now. Obama, HRC, & Biden already had decided that we can never reverse any GOP tax cuts & <raise> taxes on anyone under $400K in income. 👇 is sadly just the next step in defunding our polity.
Events over the last week have wrought an astonishing reversal in global policy expectations.
(note: chart design inspired by the FT's work here: www.ft.com/content/d0b4...)
never waste a crisis.
A good thread by @nilsredeker.bsky.social but I disagree with his optimistic assessment of the @ec.europa.eu IAA. A quick thread :
After months of wrangling and an epic list of delays, the Commission has finally released its Industrial Accelerator Act.
This could turn into one of the EU’s most consequential industrial policy files in years - and the proposal is honestly not a bad place to start.
Some quick thoughts:
Tweet from Finbar Bermingham, March 9th 2026, on Ursula bvon der Leyen speech: Wow: VDL asks if the global rules-based order is "more a help or hindrance" to Europe "Whether the system we built – with well-intentioned attempts at consensus & compromise – is more help or a hindrance to our credibility as a geopolitical actor."
Politics isn't Bluesky's thing but Ursula von der Leyen has just given a big foreign policy speech to EU ambassadors condoning the US/Israeli war on Iran, announcing that international law and multilateralism are a hindrance to EU interests and basically recasting the EU as a security project.
11/ This is a far bigger fuel, fertilizer, food crisis for Asia and Europe than it is for the US.
Europe stuck between American, Russian, and Middle East oil is trapped in what my report diagnosed as a "Permanent Suez". It must go green for its autonomy.
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Hitting desalination plants is so bad. Not just evil but strategically incomprehensible. Without desalination 75% of the entire population of the Middle East will be refugees. Israel and Kuwait depend on desalination for 90% of their water and other Middle East states aren’t far behind.
Das Bild zeigt ein lächelndes Kind mit Down-Syndrom, das an einem Klavier spielt. Über dem Kind steht der Slogan "GUT. FÜRS LAND." und darunter "FÜR JEDES KIND DIE PASSENDE SCHULE. Gegliedertes Schulsystem." Oben rechts befinden sich die Logos der Frauen Union und der CDU Baden-Württemberg.
Auf Shutterstock gibt es eine Bilderserie eines fröhlichen Kindes mit Down-Syndrom, welches an einer inklusiven Schule unterrichtet wird.
Die #CDU Baden-Württemberg hat nun eines dieser Fotos verwendet, um genau dagegen Wahlkampf zu machen.
I've written an overview of the deindustrialisation discourse in Germany: the elite has been sleepwalking into crisis. The title exaggerates but what I do get at is that two decades of terrible macro policy set up German industry for China trade shock.
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Die ganze Kaputtheit von Rapp's Artikel im Spiegel findet sich in diesen Absätzen am Ende. So wie die Politik der AfD nur besiegt werden könne, indem man Ihre Positionen in gänze übernimmt, soll der "europäische Glaube an das Völkerrecht" gerettet werden, indem wir "weniger Völkerrecht" machen...
New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
Exclusive: the progressive voters abandoning Labour Daily Politics Daily Politics from the New Statesman > ٠١٠٠٠ ٠ • 17m Labour is losing the voters it used to count on, a new study reveals. In the aftermath of the Green Party's triumph in the Gorton and Denton by-election, and with local elections in London councils and other major cities coming up, Labour is losing the left progressive voters it could once rely on having "nowhere else to go". Now, the biggest study ever of these voters - shared exclusively with the New Statesman - reveals the true risk to Labour's future of leaving them behind. This work, done by surveying 10,000 voters and a randomised control trial style approach, has found out who the so-called progressive defectors are, why they're deserting Labour, and what impact this could have on Labour's electoral prospects.
Worrying news at the NS podcast, where the lads have discovered millions of younger, mostly educated left/lib people get all upset and offended if you relentlessly insult them, tell them to fuck off and implement policies that they find appalling.
Dot plot chart from the Pew Research Center titled "Women are more likely than men to say pornography is morally unacceptable." The chart shows the percentage of men and women in 22 countries who consider viewing pornography morally unacceptable, based on the Spring 2025 Global Attitudes Survey. In every country shown, women are more likely than men to hold this view. The gender gap ranges from +6 percentage points in Nigeria to +22 points in South Korea and Spain. Countries with the highest overall disapproval rates include Nigeria (82% men, 88% women), Indonesia (81% men, 90% women), and Mexico (53% men, 74% women). Countries with the lowest rates include Japan (13% men, 27% women), Germany (21% men, 36% women), and the Netherlands (20% men, 33% women). The U.S. shows 47% of men and 58% of women viewing pornography as morally wrong (the U.S. used the term "morally wrong" rather than "morally unacceptable"). Only statistically significant differences are shown. This question was not asked in India.
New survey from Pew Research seems to explain a hidden reason that Republicans have been attacking adult entertainment: It's their new women's outreach effort.
After school boards and trans sports have fizzled, they are trying to reach women by bashing porn. www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
not good! at best we can say this will focus the public discourse on what the fuck to do about this
the rejection of international binding rules and an impersonal international order built on the fundamental equality of peoples and nations was (and is) a cornerstone of fascism
This type of purely aesthetic politics affords an immense opportunity for cloistered policy elites to set the policy agenda. Within empowered (closed door) spaces, they trust that their apparent expertise & experience can overawe a political neophyte who wins on aesthetics, not policy.
Last week, UK lobbying regulator closed investigation into ex Tory MP Ben Howlett
We offered Howlett money to work for a fake Chinese investor. He introduced us to a dozen Labour MPs
Regulator didn't even speak to us. Our system is broken
New, by me: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/we-paid-an...
Krastev wird regelmäßig als Experte befragt - und weiß nicht, wer Curtis Yarvin ist, oder was der glaubt. Das bedeutet auch, dass er einen erheblichen Teil der MAGA Koalition, mit direktem Zugang zur Führungsriege, nicht kennt, und nicht richtig einordnen kann.
Es ist wirklich enervierend, wenn Nachrichtenberichterstattung Meldungen ungeprüft übernimmt, weil sie im Rahmen ihres unterstellten Polarisierungsmusters Sinn ergeben.
Auf 40 Seiten und mit 600 Quellen haben wir in diesem deep dive alle Verbindungen der AfD nach #Russland dokumentiert – mit besonderem Augenmerk auf Markus #Frohnmaier, der gar "unter absoluter Kontrolle" der Russen stehen soll - laut Russland. www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/froh...
Erster Blick auf den IAA- Entwurf: Die Bilanz ist gemischt. Er ist ein durch seinen „Made in Europe“-Ansatz ein Fortschritt. Allerdings bleibt der IAA hinter den Erwartungen zurück, insbesondere mit Blick auf die früheren Entwürfe. 🧵1/
Zufall, dass Trump behauptet, der Krieg dauert maximal 4 Wochen? Ich glaube nicht. Man muss sich klarmachen, zu wem Trump immer auch spricht: Zu den Finanzmärkten und seinen Oligarchenbuddies. Sollte nämlich der Krieg länger dauern und die Straße von Hormus dicht bleiben, passiert ggf. das: /1 🧵
