We profoundly believe that independent research is an essential feature of a democratic society. Since our founding, one of our most important goals at the ITA was to deliver impartial work in a transparent manner.

That is why we communicate our scientific results via independent media, whose primary goal is to report based on facts and thus promote informed opinions and objective discourse. The Austrian media law emphasizes those principles. We also see it as our duty to actively counter hate speech, fake news and a lack of transparency as anti-democratic phenomena.

Since the change in ownership in 2022, the short message service X (formerly Twitter) has undergone a continuous change towards one-sided political opinion-forming and no longer fulfils the requirements of a neutral, independent platform that tries to prevent hateful, discriminatory and disinformative content. For this reason, we no longer use X as a news channel until further notice.

Follow the ITA on our alternative social media channels

We will continue to use our channels on  Bluesky, LinkedIn, Facebook and Mastodon to disseminate our research results and announce events. We hope that you, our loyal and highly valued X followers, will also follow us there and look forward to continuing an exciting scientific discourse on new technologies and their impact on society!