FG's Research Radio: From Like Buttons to Satellites: Rethinking Platformization in the AI Era

FG's Research Radio: The Five Decoys Hiding AI's Real Power Grab

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Vertesi, J., boyd, D., Taylor, A., & Shestakofsky, B. (2026). Reckoning with the political economy of AI: Avoiding decoys in pursuit of accountability. http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16106v2

FG's Research Radio: The APIcalypse: Why Election Research Is Broken

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Hepp, A. (2026). The imaginative landscape of AI: Locating Silicon Valley’s “quiet futuring”. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437261454515

FG's Research Radio: Why One Platform Isn't Enough to Understand Elections

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Schulte, L., Pasic, D., Goanta, C., & Iamnitchi, A. (2026). Multi-platform analysis of electoral discourse on social media as a research infrastructure problem. https://doi.org/10.1145/3795513.3807440

FG's Research Radio: Why Fact-Checking Conspiracy Theorists Backfires

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Grusauskaite, K., Bondt, M. D., Wildt, L. D., & Aupers, S. (2026). “We, the conspiracy theorists.” How people do symbolic boundary work in the “Great Reset” debates across social media platforms. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448261446590

FG's Research Radio: Why Both Sides Think Misinformation Is Out to Get Them

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Erkel, P. V., Hameleers, M., Farooq, A., Gattermann, K., Tulin, M., Hoogen, E. V. D., & Vreese, C. D. (2026). The hostile misinformation effect: How ideological congruence drives the assessment of misinformation targets. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2026.2671760