Postdoctoral researcher @UniOslo & non-resident fellow @DigDemLab: technology, autocracies, contentious politics and quantitative methods (he/him; #FirstGen)
Oslo, Norway
Joined September 2016
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f you were on #Bluesky yesterday, you experienced what #DDoS attacks feel like: the site just not loading. Now imagine you're a news outlet and this happens every time you publish something critical. I summarized my research for @techpolicypress: techpolicy.press/how-cyberat…
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For anyone interested in how autocrats use audiovisual tools in their legitimation strategies…
For those working on how populists curate and instrumentalize history…
We give you… “selective revivification”!
I appreciate this @APSAtweets boost of my work with @JonasDraege!
Read now on Perspective on Politics: Film-Making the Nation Great Again: Audio-visualizing History in the Authoritarian Toolkit buff.ly/lFoMnLL
How does propaganda work? Most of research on propaganda focuses on its persuasive function only @haifeng_huang
& @xiyingxingchen nicely summarize research on non-persuasive goals of propaganda in autocracies. academic.oup.com/edited-volu… - ungated: static1.squarespace.com/stat…
I am very happy to be on the program committee for next years Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI27) conference --> foci.community --> the call is still open until the end of the month. Feel free to submit more social sciencey work too!
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ULTIMA HORA: Desbloquean 10 sitios web de noticias en Venezuela en varios proveedores de #internetVE:
[actualizado a las 2:30am]
@AlbertoRodNews
@CaraotaDigital
@CronicaUno
@EFEnoticias
@EfectoCocuyo
@elestimulo
@ElPitazoTV
@monitoreamos
@RunRunesWeb
@RevistaSemana
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Pronto se va a actualizar este tablero en Umbral, gracias al trabajo de @conexionsegura y su programa @vesinfiltro tenemos acceso a estos datos de monitoreo de dominios bloqueados en Venezuela.
Seguimos monitoreando la transformación del régimen.
#SOSInternetVE
This is good news for Venezuela and free media there linkedin.com/pulse/venezuela…
The interview with @TalCualOficial exactly mirrors my argument made in doi.org/10.1017/S00071234220… and doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2021.68 - when news websites get censored, the massively loss revenues and only a few survive. Glad that @TalCualOficial publishing for such a long time!
New preprint! How do opposition voters evaluate electoral loss in autocracies? Leveraging an exploratory online survey in Turkey at the end of 2023, my amazing co-author @JonasDraege
and I show that… 1/6
We speculate that this pattern should be especially pronounced where polarization is high, opposition coalitions are broad, and expectations of an opposition victory run high. 5/6
You can find the working paper here: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/6s…
6/6
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My god you can't make this up.
Comedian Deniz Göktaş was in jail for over 50 days without indictment. For making jokes. He was held in a "coffin-like" cell.
He was granted release and then, before he could leave, he was detained AGAIN. For "praising crime." Absolutely absurd.
Deniz Göktaş’a tahliye kararı verildi: Cezaevinden çıkamadan yeniden tutuklandı
✍🏻 @karabayfurkan5 'ın haberi
medyascope.tv/2026/08/28/tah…
While the piece is based on my research that documents DDoS attacks as censorship tool (doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2021.68),...
..the recent attack also seems likely to reflect other motivations, i.e., a response from Iranian actors to the recent aggression of the US as reflected in my other work (doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogab00…) #cyberattacks #DDoS
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Reichtum braucht jetzt fast immer Erbe oder Schenkung. Man muss 40 Jahre sparen um vom unteren zum oberen Viertel der Vermögensverteilung zu kommen. Ohne Erbe bleiben die meisten Mieter und mehren das Vermögen ihres Vermieters. Einkommen wird hoch und Vermögen nicht besteuert
New from me:
Until recently, the gap between comfortably-off and just-getting-started could plausibly be crossed in a decade or two of hard work.
Growth in asset prices means that’s no longer true.
My column on moving from income world to wealth world: ft.com/content/6a35508c-c0bd…
Happy to share a niece piece in @techpolicypress on how DoS attacks became a censorship tool and why mitigation strategies are not enough --- techpolicy.press/how-cyberat… #censor