Nathalie Van Raemdonck

I became a Doctor yesterday 🥳 presented my thesis "What Others afford: sociotechnical shaping of normative processes on social media platforms". In it I describe how the way we all shape each other's behavior on social media is shaped by the architectures of the digital environments we inhabit.

So excited to be working on this paper with UPF colleague @jainamarguerrero.bsky.social fanfiction is a fascinating community to explore norm transformations in changing platform ecosystems!

very good overview of what we know so far on the impact of the Yandex bombing on the disturbance of Russian information operations (few hard evidence so far)

🟢 LOW CREDIBILITY: We find that viral claims that drone strikes on Yandex data centers in Russia have impacted coordinated inauthentic social media activity are misstated and unfalsifiable. Treat such claims with skepticism, and bookmark this tracker. russianbots.america2.news

So there currently a raging debate on X, Bluesky & other platforms where people are using a drop in Cloudflare's YandexBot traffic to claim that right-wing online engagement is falling. radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238... That conclusion doesn't follow from the data.

Not saying Russia doesn’t have massive troll and bot infrastructure but it’s hopium (and factually inaccurate) to believe that the yandex datacenter bombing is wiped all their bots and shows that most far-right supporters are Russian FIMI bots. it’s also dangerous for the below reason 👇

Again, none of its true. People are looking at graphs they don't understand and inventing stuff. Note the grifter language, "if confirmed" "its reported" No meta data! These graphs do not show russian propaganda bot disappearance, only normal internet information tool collapse.

To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️

🎉 Here it is: eu.boell.org/en/2026/10/0... English version of our Open Social Web Alliance paper is finally out. As mentioned to many of #Disinfo2026 folks. Feedback very welcome! #oswa

"Adults are harmed when their data is leaked, but kids suffer more," writes Logan Kolas of the American Consumer Institute, arguing that age verification laws meant to protect children could put America "on a collision course with its newly discovered AI-augmented cybersecurity reality."

Also now that #disinfo2026 participants (and followers of a certain drama 👀) has a lot of eyeballs on Bluesky, warmly recommend @eurosky.social algorithmic feed fu (made for the mu app but usable everywhere!) I’ve been very satisfied with it! bsky.app/profile/did:...

great panel with @robin.berjon.com @scarnecchia.net and @cathleen.eurosky.social who reminds us that "if we want to have a chance to create an open social web, we need to think how regulations have consequences for that future, and not just how they're meant to be regulating Big Tech" #disinfo2026

I'm at #disinfo2026 to represent the ANTIGONE project (From Antagonism to Agonism in Digital Ecosystems), a new Horizon academic consortium that @disinfo.eu is part of. Come say hi if you're at the conf!

An update on sponsors pulling out of #Disinfo2026 at the last minute. Michael Shellenberger has followed up his earlier email to panelists participating in the event with another email, that include the following statements:

Enable free press ❌ Harass civil society ✅ https://t.co/F3BusL213j https://t.co/2TyXI2wkNL Source : https://x.com/FrenchResponse/status/2107509182748598627

Also important to note there are only Americans speaking in this panel 👀 #disinfo2026

An example of FIMI (Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference) in action at the @disinfo.eu conference? Apparently someone in the U.S. did not agree with the topic of a session named "USA as a FIMI threat: acknowledge, adapt, push back" and applied pressure on the sponsors...

Just got to Vilnius for #disinfo2026 and the tone is set!

With some delay, my op-Ed on the dramatic Saxony-Anhalt election. It is high time we focus our political struggle on strengthening democracy, rather than merely weakening the far right. To do this, we must show realism, resilience and restraint.

"we still use these platforms like it’s 2011. We shoot things off into the ether and hope people will somehow self-organize"

If you think the plagiarism of the deceased is a bigger problem that the racism of the campaigners, you should really rethink your priorities.

glad we have a word now for the cowardly abandonment of climate policy in attempts to protect "the economy" which will only tank more as the consequences of climate change become worse and worse: the doom loop

Well look, the only way you can possibly claim that Labor’s harebrained #SocialMediaBan is working, or could possibly work at all, _IS_ by hallucinating, so using AI here is only logical really.

I said what I said. Y'all fall for this constantly.

White supremacist "academic" Nathan Cofnas puts a black professor in front of the firing squad, and British media executed the eugenicists plan to have him destroyed. Shame on any academic participating in the plagiarism lynching squad for the sake of “academic purity”. Rest in Power Jason Arday

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Policymakers HAVE the toolbox with the DSA to regulate social media to protect children. Bans are signs of lazy politicians trying to score brownie points with their electorate.

As requested by @liabelle.me here are all the unique features of @mu.social which I will keep up to date as we progress

In case anyone is curious to study how network effects lose critical mass, search inclusion is a good opportunity to update scientific theories of collective action

My move to @eurosky.social is official I guess 🥳

Never read Babel as a cautionary tale against empire, where the punishment of plurality in languages was a "refusal to let one order claim the whole future". Great cautionary tale on AI, building a system that grows past our understanding will be the consequence of our own actions.

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

This paper about the publicly available data that is missing from Meta's and TikTok's research tools/APIs, by Luka Bekavac and Simon Mayer, is super interesting. And this graphic is a doozy. arxiv.org/html/2601.12...

actually macron and others know a ban won’t work to curb the way social media companies target/commodify kids. but remarkably it’s Meloni who says it.

Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...