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🗣️Podcast: Social Media and Politics

In the #185 episode of Social Media and Politics podcast, named How the EU is Shielding Elections from Disinformation, Manipulation, and AI, we discussed the EU’s ongoing initiatives to fight disinformation, regulate political advertising, and protect election integrity on social media. The findings from our latest report about the impact of online regulations on civic society…

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🇪🇺REPORT: Protecting Digital Civic Space in the EU

As of June 2025, our new report Protecting Digital Civic Space in the EU is available. The report presents findings from meetings with representatives of over 60 civil society organisations, experts, academics, and regulators held in Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, and Bucharest. It explores how European regulatory frameworks will shape the everyday reality of social and political debate…

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🇨🇳Seminar: China Enters the Chat

This week, together with Central European Institute of Asian Studies, we hosted a seminar in Warsaw titled "When China Enters the Chat: Visibility, Reactions, and Narratives in Polish Social Media.", gathering a diverse pool of diplomats, think tank experts, academics, and representatives of state institutions. The discussion started with a presentation of the results from…

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🌐Visegrad Insight: Digital Lessons from Poland’s Election

In the article "Digital Lessons from Poland’s Election: Permanent Campaign, Permanent Manipulation", Jakub Szymik and Krzysztof Izdebski analyse the evolution of digital campaigning. They demonstrate that Poland’s recent election wasn’t just a political contest, but a stress test for democracy in the digital age, with lessons on FIMI and manipulation that are relevant for…

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📑OSCE: Polish Presidential Election

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) released a Statement of Preliminary Findings and Conclusions following the Polish presidential elections. The report, which includes recommendations for improving campaign conduct, reflects suggestions we contributed during consultations on the digital aspects of the electoral process. The OSCE highlighted that the lack of publicly available information about the…

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📡 WEBINAR: Poland’s President: chosen by the Internet?

Morning after Poland's presidential election, our experts held a webinar on the campaign's online dynamic together with Partisan and European Campaign Playbook. We explored how digital strategies are influencing voter mobilisation and reflected how AI, synthetic media, and deepfakes have quickly become standard campaign tools, while security issues dominate the political agenda amid ongoing regional…

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Barometr sieci. 11-18 maja 2025

Zapraszamy do zapoznania się z pilotażowym badaniem Barometr sieci. Maj 2025. Raport podsumowuje posty polskich liderów politycznych na kanałach Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok oraz X/Twitter opublikowanych w dniach 11-18 maja 2025. Celem projektu jest uzupełnienie analizy sceny politycznej w Polsce oraz obserwacja zachowań głównych aktorów politycznych w kontekście rosnących działań dezinformacyjnych wpływających na decyzje wyborców i…

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MEDIA: hAI Magazine o deep fake’ach

W najnowszym wydaniu hAI Magazine ukazał się artykuł Mateusza Łabuza poświęcony problemowi deep fake’ów i przemocy seksualnej w internecie.  „Wystarczy kilka publicznie dostępnych zdjęć, by stworzyć realistyczny, lecz fałszywy materiał pornograficzny. Problem niekonsensualnych treści intymnych w formie deep fakes dotyka przede wszystkim kobiet. Tymczasem prawo karne nie nadąża za rozwojem technologicznym, co ogranicza możliwość dochodzenia…

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