risius.bsky.social
Professor for Digital Society and Online Engagement, @dsrc.bsky.social Trust and Safety at University of Applied Sciences Neu-Ulm, views are my own
👤 Joined on 29 September 2025
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@risius.bsky.socialCall for Papers, Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 23-25 Mar 2027. Research on incentives or power infrastructures that support malign cognitive influence or disinformation campaigns. To submit a paper, see the Summit's webpage and hit the Call for Papers tab: www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...
Show PostWhen a 16-year-old attacked his former school in Schongau on 8 July, the 19-page manifesto made headlines. What didn't: 135 posts he left on an incel forum. The account is gone now, but we archived it first. (CW: extremism, misogyny, violence) 1/7
Show PostAnd in @gnetresearch.bsky.social, Christopher David, @riekers.bsky.social, and @risius.bsky.social offer a similarly sharp analysis on how “misogyny, anti-Muslim hatred and antisemitism emerged as master frames towards a universal misanthropy” in a school stabbing in Germany.
Show PostOn 31 July 2026 a Munich court ruled that Suno had trained its music AI on protected songs like "Atemlos durch die Nacht" without a licence, storing them in the model. Our ECIS 2026 short paper asks: what if you caught that before training? By @riekers.bsky.social & @risius.bsky.social 1/9
Show PostLooksmaxxing is often framed as self-improvement. But when does optimizing one’s appearance become a worldview that explains almost everything? Our colleague Christopher David discussed this in a recent #Tagesthemen segment on ARD, Germany’s largest public broadcaster. 1/5
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