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🗓️ As this week draws to a close: belief is both anchor and barrier. ✏️ Subscribe to receive the last issue of the series "The Limits of Enlightenment", exploring how identity, emotion, and narrative manipulation challenge traditional models of #MediaLiteracy. 🔗

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🗣️ You can’t argue someone out of a belief that shields their identity. Attempts to storm that fortress often backfire. 🔗

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🏰 Bauman warns that social precarity makes belief act like a castle wall. We hold it tight so our world won’t crumble. 📖 Want to rethink media literacy? This week’s analysis is for you. 🔗

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🛡️ When society feels shaky, we wrap ourselves in belief armor. 💥 That’s how disinfo (especially strategic disinfo) thrives. If we want truth to matter, we must understand that armor. Insight 👉

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🏰 Facts don’t change minds when they crash into our belief fortresses. 📖 Media literacy must evolve to treat belief as defense. 📬 Explore this in the latest issue of Future Frontiers. 🔗

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The 'president of peace' narrative for Trump was always a problematic oversimplification. Often, it was anti-Western, anti-American propaganda, easily adopted across the political spectrum to undermine liberal democracies. It highlights how easily narratives are weaponized.

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🫠 What if emotional awareness was the foundation of political literacy? 👩‍🏫 Meta-awareness — recognizing what we feel while interpreting — is no longer optional. It’s a civic skill. 👉 Not to feel less. To feel with insight. 🔗

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🫣 Ever caught yourself defending a belief just because it felt right? 🫀 That’s not a bug, it’s how cognition works. Emotion comes first, justification second. 📬 This week’s piece digs into how media literacy must adapt to our affect-driven reality. 🔗

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🧫 Disinformation isn’t the disease. It’s the symptom. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 The real crisis is narrative insecurity and the fact that people feel more safe in group belief than in truth. 👉 What if media literacy was about defending the commons of meaning?

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🚯 What if we stopped teaching media literacy like it’s a logic test? ⚠️ Disinformation exploits fear, identity, and group narratives. This week’s article explores why we need civic immunology, not just source-checking. Take a look:

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⚠️ What if the real threat isn’t misinformation, but how we process it? 📅 This week’s article reframes media literacy as a form of civic immunology. Rationalism isn’t enough. Belief, emotion, and identity are now the battleground. 👉 Read more here:

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🤖 AI doesn’t just assist. It orients. And whoever builds the interface, builds the future. ➡️ Design is politics.⬅️

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⬅️ Used to be: you searched for meaning. ➡️ Now: AI suggests, nudges, emotes on your behalf. 🤖 If this is help, what does control look like? 🪢

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“Reality, outsourced.” ♨️ We don’t browse anymore: we’re served. 👾 AI is no longer a tool. It’s the filter through which the world arrives. 🪢

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⚠️ Weekend thought: We're designing the epistemic infrastructure of tomorrow right now. Every choice about AI transparency, source attribution, and accountability shapes what "knowing together" will mean. The future isn't fixed—it's a continuous act of collective design. ✨

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🫥 Ever wonder why AI's confident answers feel so right, even when they're wrong? It's not just user error, it's architectural. 🔛Get ready to rethink how you consume information! 🔗 massimoflore.medium.com/why-we-trust...

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❓ Serious question: If AI models increasingly train on their own outputs, creating recursive loops of synthetic content, what happens to human knowledge over time? ↗️ Are we building systems that preserve understanding or ones that slowly erode it? The research is starting to worry me.

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🌾European farmer protests against Ukrainian grain looked organic. The reality was more calculated. 🔴Russia exploited legitimate concerns through coordinated disinfo to fracture EU unity. 🔗My analysis: massimoflore.medium.com/how-russia-w...

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🧭 Search usage declined for first time ever. Not because people stopped looking for info, but because AI started giving direct answers. 🗨️ We traded the messiness of discovery for the smoothness of synthesis. What did we lose in that exchange? 🤔 🔗

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📅 Weekend reflection: 👉 If most daily conversations happened with AI companions instead of people: 🧠 What skills would change? 💬 What norms would shift? 🔁 What types of influence might emerge? Curious where your mind goes. Drop thoughts below. 👇

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📱 "The goal isn't just to know what you want. It's to become what you want. And in doing so, shape what you need" 🤔 This is how persuasion works in the attention economy. 🔗

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🇪🇺 Today at the @europarl.europa.eu, @brodnig.bsky.social pointed out the difficulties of reporting illegal content as defined by DSA. This raises concerns that platforms may be unintentionally hindering this feature. I have mixed experience about it, but can definitely confirm.

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💭 Would you rather have: 👥 A friend who challenges but sometimes hurts you OR 🤖 An AI that always validates but shapes your worldview? This choice is being engineered now. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/massimof...

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📢 Final chapter of "The Invisible Machinery", a three-part investigation on Surveillance Capitalism. 🤖 When AI evolves from language tool to synthetic friend, who benefits? ❤️ The most powerful influence isn't propaganda. It's a companion who always agrees. 🔗

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Not a fan of the term “nudging”? Try this: 🛠️ Redesign the world so people default to what you want — but make it feel like their idea. That’s what today’s persuasion looks like.

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👁️ You’re being profiled — not just as a consumer, but as a citizen. 🤖 What’s being sold isn’t just products: It’s worldviews, loyalties, behaviors. 📅 Dive into the 2nd issue: The new architecture of digital persuasion. 🪔 Got thoughts? Curious where this ends? 🔗

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🍱 They say ‘no such thing as a free lunch’, but free apps still feed you to an algorithm. 〰️ What would happen if we drew the line at our own info? 💡 Let me know what you think.

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📲 Ever felt an ad hit so close to home it felt spooky? 👻 That’s not magic, it’s math. 📅 This week kicks off a 3-part series on how your devices track, predict, and reshape who you are. 🔗 Start here

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👁️‍🗨️ The Invisible Machinery, a three-part investigation into #SurveillanceCapitalism begins this Sunday. 💬 How #algorithmic systems silently shape our digital (and increasingly, physical) world. 🔔 Subscribe now to receive all three parts directly in your inbox:

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📚 As the week closes: 💭 If fear shapes our public imagination, how do we rebuild trust in facts and rights? 🪔 Reflection for the weekend.

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🚨 Deeper Dive 🚨 🔴 How hostile states weaponize #migration fears to destabilize #democracies. #HybridThreats aren’t just tanks and hackers, they’re narratives, designed to divide. 🧠 Fear and #disinformation spreads faster than facts. Read it here 👇 massimoflore.medium.com/weaponized-m...

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🧳 In "No Dogs or Italians Allowed" (2022), Italians are #migrants: hated, exploited, feared. 👹 Today's fear-based narratives target different groups but use the same frames. 👤 History repeats itself when we stop paying attention. 📖 Full article (EN): open.substack.com/pub/massimof...

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🧠 What deeper tensions are hiding behind today’s migration panics and disinformation? 🚨 Are we confronting external threats or internal fractures? 💬 Curious for your reflections.

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📊 What if everything we're doing to "fix" politics is making it worse? 👨‍🏫My analysis shows how the digital revolution demolished mediating structures between power and people, not just disrupted them. 🫥 Nostalgia won't save democracy. But resilience might. massimoflore.substack.com/p/the-new-no...

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Harari: "The liberal vision of the world as a co-operative network is replaced by the vision of the world as a mosaic of fortresses". www.ft.com/content/06cc...

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