Johan Farkas

@jfarkas.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor. Author of 'Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy' (https://t.ly/1JHye), University of Copenhagen, Firstgen 🎓. he/him. Free access to my work: http://www.johanfarkas.com/research

A photo of PĂ©ter Magyar with a supporter in 2024.
A screenshot from an explainer video on Slopaganda. The title card says "Johan Farkas, Associate Professor".
A picture of the two books: 'Mass Communication and American Social Thought' and 'Social Theories of the Press'
A screenshot of the event description for a free public lecture with Johan Farkas in Malmö on 25 March 2026
Entry on 'Propaganda' in the 'IPSA Companion to Political Science: A Practical Introduction to the 200 Most Important Concepts'
Book cover for Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood
A screenshot of the article 'Stop Fake Hate Profiles on Facebook': Challenges for Crowdsourced Activism on Social Media
An article from the New York Times claiming that Greenland "may be irresistible" to Trump
Runners next to a frozen lake
Book covers for 'Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy' and 'Digital Media Metaphors'
A dull gray building with the words "Fun" and "Creativity" written on it
Christmas decorations in Brussels
A poster for the book 'Digital Media Metaphors: A Critical Introduction"
Three children in rocky terrain, mesmerized by two sheep
A meme showing a discrepancy between the number of "AI researchers" and the number of "researchers with published works on AI"
A screenshot of an article in Politiken (Danish newspaper) about pro-Israeli ads placed in Danish media by Israel’s Government Advertising Agency via Google Ads.
Abstract: The aim for this commentary is two-fold: first, we seek to outline how decades of liberal “post-democratic” hegemony—prevalent across liberal democratic parliaments, journalism, and academia—have enabled the rise of reactionary tech oligarchy. Second, we call for cross-disciplinary and cross-societal alliances that not only reject depoliticized euphemisms such as “polarization,” “populism,” and “post-truth,” but also actively commit to building radical democratic alternatives to both the failed liberal democratic status quo and its authoritarian outgrowth. Departing from the growing overt involvements of tech billionaires in authoritarian movements—financially, politically, discursively—we build on emergent scholarship to highlight failures in understanding the rise of reactionary tech, through its historical roots, financial and political power, and discursive reach.
A photo of the book 'Talking back to the West" by Bilge Yesil
A picture of all major tech ceos at Trump's inauguration
A photo of the book 'Ethos, Technology, and AI in Contemporary Society: The Character in the Machine'
A digital poster for a talk in Aabenraa, Denmark by Johan Farkas
A spam email with the subject line: "Are you Dead or Alive?"
Lecture by Professor Lucas Graves
Presentation by Lena Frischlich
Headline from Nature: Publishers are selling papers to train AIs — and making millions of dollars
A digital flyer for a talk by Johan Farkas at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center on 4 December 2024
A screenshot of a new academic article called "Distrack: A New Tool for Semi-automatic Misinformation Tracking in Online Social Networks"
Excepts from endorsements of the book Digital Media Metaphors: A Critical Introduction.
Headline: UN Special Committee finds Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, including use of starvation as weapon of war
Assistant Professor Sofie Flensburg giving a talk