Sophie L. Vériter

political scientist • PhD Leiden, MPhil Oxford, formerly on the frontlines of EU public diplomacy 💬 security, technology, democracy 🔎 misinformation

[Sophie L. Vériter @SLVeriter]

Misinformation, disinformation, fake news, propaganda, algorithmic amplification, influence operations, bots, AI bias,… 😵‍💫

How to deal with what looks like information chaos?

What is at stake for Europe?

👉🏼 A few takeaways from my PhD thesis: https://t.co/eeFynMC8DO

[Sophie L. Vériter @SLVeriter]

read my latest: https://t.co/A4CtGnr507

[Sophie L. Vériter @SLVeriter]

I wrote my PhD thesis on how states construct and manage information environments, and who benefits from controlling them.

When I heard that a so-called “information market” @Polymarket running on @Polygon was labelled a “truth machine”, I knew I had to dive deeper.

[Sophie L. Vériter @SLVeriter]

My latest piece on EDM culture, agonistic spaces, and why the dance floor might be more politically relevant than parliament right now: https://t.co/p2Oh6Ig0y9

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I never thought my love of techno and my work in democratic theory would end up in the same essay.

Then, an Italian mayor named Silvia Salis organised a rave and emerged as Meloni's biggest contender.

[Irish Foreign Ministry @dfatirl]

Foreign Ministers of Ireland, Slovenia and Spain, have written to HRVP @kajakallas on the urgent situation in the Middle East.

Read full letter here: https://t.co/w7KYUVdVG1

[Sophie L. Vériter @SLVeriter]

An underreported skill in politics: using international legitimacy to bury a domestic crisis.

Sánchez this week is a textbook case of narrative displacement. Don’t rebut a damaging frame, change the arena where the questions get asked.

[Marci Shore @marci_shore]

I've taught European history for 30 years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we have front-row seats.

[Sophia Besch @SophiaBesch]

Whether this happens or not, the clock is ticking: every leader has until 8pm tonight to defend their credibility. Speak out — clearly, unequivocally — or own the silence.

[Sophie L. Vériter @SLVeriter]

The demand for European tech is real. The infrastructure, the awareness, and the political will haven't fully caught up yet. Is #DigitalSovereignty about to become a campaign slogan?
via @techpolicypress

[Sophie L. Vériter @SLVeriter]

What they likely will change for Europe are the speed of EU regulatory #enforcement timelines, stronger political #will to tackle platforms’ harmful design, and Meta’s reduced ability to argue in any proceeding that its choices were benign or unintentional.

[Sophie L. Vériter @SLVeriter]

Two landmark verdicts in a week against @Meta: one in California for #addictively designing platforms harming children’s mental health, and one in New Mexico for concealing child sexual #exploitation.

What are the implications for Europe?

[Sophie L. Vériter @SLVeriter]

The verdicts on Meta are morally and rhetorically powerful for Europe, but they won’t open floodgates of civil lawsuits the same way they might in US courts.