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Paddy interviewed by AD OchtendShow

ICDS researcher Paddy Leerssen was interviewed for the Dutch news program AD OchtendShow, where he talked about Twitter’s recent decision to fact-check US president Donald ...
/ Media coverage

The Political Microtargeting Project: Safeguarding democratic values in digital political practices

June 2nd marks the start of a new ICDS research project: the Political Microtargeting Project. Political microtargeting takes a central feature in today’s political campaigning, which ...
/ Research

Social Media & Politics podcast with Brahim

Brahim was invited to discuss his research on social media political ads and their effectiveness on different personality types (introverts and extroverts) in the Social ...
/ Media coverage

Operationalising Research Access in Platform Governance

This week, ICDS researchers Jef Ausloos and Paddy Leerssen presented their new report on access to platform data, in partnership with AlgorithmWatch. The report, ‘Operationalising ...
/ Research

Brahim wins Top Dissertation award at 70th ICA!

Brahim Zarouali has won the Top Dissertation Award in the CAM Division. The dissertation was entitled: “Adolescents’ interactions with targeted advertising on social networking sites” ...
/ Awards