Eckehard Olbrich

@KonstantinKisin You are omitting what Pistorius said before: "„Wir kämpfen auch dafür, dass du gegen uns sein kannst“ (which means something like "We also fight for your right to be against us.")

I love the fact that JD Vance criticised European leaders for abandoning free speech and the response was a German politician standing up and saying "Das ist unacceptable!" 🤣🤣🤣

#Musk und #Trump führen in den USA gerade einen administrativen #Staatsstreich durch. Deutsche Medien berichten größtenteils, als laufe alles wie immer. Es ist schlimmer, als es scheint. volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/trum…

There are votes to be won by appealing to the populists but eventually you have to draw a line or you will be taken to a very dark place. My @newstatesman piece on why Elon Musk provides a cautionary tale for parties of the right. newstatesman.com/comment/2025/0…

A recent project workshop explored the concept of narratives and their impact on democratic processes. See some4dem.eu/news/political… for more details.

Why do East Germans vote for the far-right AfD? We may have a new answer. It turns out, East Germans misperceive the grievances *other* citizens hold. The good news: if you tell East Germans that grievances are not as bad, AfD vote intentions go down. Here’s the experiment we ran

Nearly a week ago, the far-right AfD scored 32.8% in the Thuringia state election, its highest result in any German election so far. What factors influenced the party's electoral support? I collected small-scale municipality data and ran a few regression models. A A thread.🧵

Today scientists from SoMe4Dem and the @TWON_project will discuss how modeling could help to reshape the digital public sphere at the satellite workshop MODIS 2024 at #ccs24 some4dem.eu/news/modis-202…

Scientists from the SoMe4Dem project participated at the DMI Summer School 2024 in Amsterdam facilitating a project on the expression of collective identities on X. #digitalmethods some4dem.eu/news/dmi-summe…

Katapult will den Osten nicht den Rechtsextremen überlassen und plant den Osten mit einer demokratischen Zeitung zu überschwemmen. Unterstütze auch du diesen Plan! Alle Infos 👇 katapult-sachsen.de

How many academic papers are written with the help of ChatGPT? To answer this question, we analyzed 14mln PubMed abstracts from 2010 to 2024 and looked for excess words: ** Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary ** arxiv.org/abs/2406.07016 1/11

Danke für die Einladung! @ForumMIDEM

Sehr interessante Ergebnisse: Junge Frauen werden liberaler, junge Männer konservativer, auch in Deutschland.

"When it comes to the most serious misinformation, the calls tend to come from inside the house. Technology will not change that, so let’s stop gaslighting the public and admit clearly [that] misinformation often comes from the top" Wrote this for the @FT on.ft.com/4aHtKu3

Mich hat lange nichts so gerührt und bewegt wie dieser große Text von @AnneRabe2 über den Osten, seine Gewalt und seine Hoffnung. Ich wünsche euch, dass ihr ihn noch in diesem Jahr lest. taz.de/Schweigen-uebe…

"Perhaps now, more than 20 years after the rise of Pim Fortuyn, the country can finally start an honest and open discussion about its far-right problem." excellent analysis by @CasMudde theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

We proudly introduce manifestoberta, a multilingual xlm-roberta-large model fine-tuned on ~1,6 m. annotated statements of the Manifesto Corpus (2023a). Find it here: manifesto-project.wzb.eu/information/do… and also on🤗huggingface.co/manifesto-proj…. A thread🧵:

Was die Menschen in Gaza über die Hamas denken. "Die Daten (der hochaktuellen Princeton-Studie) widerlegen so manches Vorurteil über die Bevölkerung von Gaza, die seit 2007 von den Terroristen der Hamas regiert wird" zeit.de/2023/48/bewohn… via @zeitonline