Category: Post-X
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Blog: New isn’t always better
This is an automatic English translation of the Dutch original. The other day I found something new in the Albert Heijn. Plastic cups. With ice cubes in them. It said 528 on the label. Ready-made frozen water, packaged, chilled, transported, and on sale for less than a euro. This is a cracker of a product…
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Journalism without the internet: how MeshMedia began
This is an automatic English translation of the Dutch original. What if the internet goes down? Can you still do journalism then, and can you still trust it? With that question we kicked off MeshMedia on 18 June, the summer research trajectory in which we explore what Mesh network technology can mean for journalism. With…
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Blog: Embracing not being understood
This is an automatic English translation of the Dutch original. Post-X Society began with a question: what is our future called? Prompted by the sense that we are letting go of more and more: a fair economy, a trustworthy media ecosystem, an idea of how to live together justly. Without a clear picture of what…
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Building the Vrije Cloud together
This is an automatic English translation of the Dutch original. On 8 May we came together at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague to keep building the Vrije Cloud. Around twenty people joined: freelancers, developers, project managers, journalists, people from the art world and other interested contributors. What did they have in common? The conviction…
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Surely this must be possible in real life?!
This is an automatic English translation of the Dutch original. At Post-X Society we believe that the transition to a just, sustainable society calls not only for visions and plans, but above all for concrete experiments. That is why we don’t get stuck in criticism of the existing, but preferably actually try out something new…
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Help protect the municipal elections
This is an automatic English translation of the Dutch original. On 18 March, the Netherlands goes to the polls again. Our Hybrid Election Integrity Observatory is active again too. We look for troll armies, improper use of artificial intelligence, manipulation of recommendation algorithms, illegal political advertisements, foreign interference and more. Do you spot something notable?…
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If need be, deny social media access to our market
This is an automatic English translation of the Dutch original. The primary task of a government is to protect its citizens. In that duty of care, the government falls short online. Threats, intimidation, hate and anti-democratic ideas are given too much room on social media. The big social media companies take too few measures, and…
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Elections under digital pressure
This is an automatic English translation of the Dutch original. The Netherlands went to the polls on 29 October 2025. Led by Post-X Society, a consortium of researchers and civil-society organisations monitored the integrity of the election process. We saw troll armies, illegal Generative AI (GenAI) content, covert political advertising, extremist content being recommended, disinformation…
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This is what post-capitalism feels like
This is an automatic English translation of the Dutch original. A look back at our experience with Donnie Maclurcan There are moments when you feel that the world can be different. That feeling took over last Friday, 19 September, when more than 50 people came together for a post-growth experience with Donnie Maclurcan, director of the…
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How to redesign conversations on social media platforms
This is an automatic English translation of the Dutch original. In the search for alternatives to Elon Musk’s platform X, too little attention is paid to the basic functions of online conversations. Max Kortlander did just that and presents his first design requirements here. All that is still needed is an existing community with whom…