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As with social media and online misinfo (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), people overrate harms for the average person and underrate them for people in the tails

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I am not an expert on Brazilian law but this seems to be a potentially massive legal precedent? www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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This WSJ story about the decline in search traffic because of AI summaries is so grim. Every single outlet spent 15+ years contorting their coverage to cover the same things as everyone else trying to grab SEO, only for Google to rugpull them, just like social networks did. tinyurl.com/bdpzc399

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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/t...

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🧵 Several people have raised questions about what I meant by "deservedly so" when referring to the decline of institutional trust. It's a fair question, so I want to explain that, because it sits at the heart of my work on how democracies collapse when their epistemic foundations rot.

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Authoritarian propaganda 101: create or exaggerate chaos, insert yourself as the necessary solution, demand loyalty and praise. It rewrites history in real time, creating confusion about what did or didn’t happen. This is compounded today by the disastrously bad information environment.

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Crucial truth. “There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.” -Walter Lippmann, "What Modern Liberty Means," Liberty and the News (1920)

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When WaPo pinged me ab the Trump-Musk mess I pointed to a fav essay from 2020 -“The Internet of Beefs”- and the role of the online crowd. Trump & Musk were the main characters, but the spectacle keeps us all hooked & participating —we help shape the moment. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Slop everywhere you look "An AFP investigation identified dozens of YouTube and TikTok pages that have been churning out AI-generated messages delivered in the pope's voice or otherwise attributed to him since he took charge of the Catholic Church last month." www.france24.com/en/live-news...

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The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

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Oh but it's just a divestment order, not a direct speech regulation that might skew the marketplace of ideas or anything

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A lot of people say generative AI shouldn't infringe on copyright. These researchers actually tried to do it. The result: an 8 terabyte dataset of text that's openly licensed or in the public domain & 7 B parameter model that performs as well as Meta's Llama 7B www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

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The entire internet right now.

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Night of the Long Tweets.

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Remember that 'illegal secret deal' Musk was complaining about in July 2024—the one he claimed the EU offered to X?That was most likely X offering commitments to comply with the DSA (Art. 71). The new disclaimer on blue checkmarks is likely part of that process. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Some devastating quotes in here www.404media.co/teachers-are...

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Messaging app Telegram is being scrutinised by the Belgian telecoms regulator to check whether the platform complies with EU rules combatting terrorist content online. More here: www.euronews.com/next/2025/06...

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Old enough to remember when MAGAville was furious that the government was trying to pressure private companies. This is pure jawboning/chilling effects trying to create a "cost" for advertisers choosing not to advertise on X.

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New: The FTC's investigation into online advertising goes beyond just Media Matters. About a dozen other groups, including industry watchdogs and ad organizations, are also under investigation. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/t...

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A study last month found that "crypto companies, which contributed less than $10 million to super PACs over the past two election cycles combined, have raised more than $200 million in 2024—accounting for nearly half of all corporate contributions this cycle". newrepublic.com/article/1857...

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Surprisingly precisely no one other than themselves, law firms awkwardly discover that potential clients aren’t thrilled with “we totally capitulated immediately when the stakes were highest” as an expensive legal strategy.

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“Meta documents suggest its users in the European Union could be somewhat insulated from these changes” www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...

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US trade court bombshell highlights why the EU should ignore Trump's tariff threats - in my op-ed for @politico.eu I argue that negotiation & retaliation are pointless, meaning Europe's best option is to do nothing (setting a useful precedent on how to handle Trump) 👇 www.politico.eu/article/euro...

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@ec.europa.eu has published the full text of its DMA non-compliance decisions against Apple (including how it determined the €500m fine amount) ec.europa.eu/competition/...

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Italy, France, Spain, Ireland and Belgium signalled they want a quick deal with the US rather than "taking the path of confrontation". VDL "made no mention of defending EU interests, a line used by Šefčovič after he has talked to US counterparts"... www.ft.com/content/3413...

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This is extraordinary. A database tracking legal decisions in cases where generative #AI produced hallucinated content; both fabricated citations and ficticious court rulings. 112 cases so far; 19 this month: www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio... Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Not just student data. DOJ apparently requested any email or text where faculty or staff discussed the Trump DEI EOs -- something that would target lots of pure political speech.

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Turns out the Ministry of Truth is set up after all. In the US.

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tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

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One of the many seminars @marietjeschaake.bsky.social organized.. 8 years ago! Plus ca change..

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Soviet-style. And a recipe for catastrophic policy choices both now and in the future (see: Iraq). What happens when there is pressure on intelligence officials to not contradict Trump on Russia or Iran or North Korea?

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Another week, another research ethics controversy. TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized. But let's unpack this one... 🧵 www.404media.co/researchers-...

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"According to Telegram’s transparency report bot, compliance appears to be skyrocketing. During the 1st quarter of 2025, the company provided authorities with data on 22,777 users. During the same period last year, the company produced data for only 5,826 users." mailchi.mp/freedom.pres...

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European Commission introduces a new category of "small mid-cap" companies, applying to roughly 38000 companies in the EU with fewer than 750 employees and a turnover of up to €150 million or total assets of up to €129 million that will exempted from the GDPR ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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Now here's a market that is ripe for reform: almost 10% of Ukraine's weapons budget was wasted on freewheeling foreign arm brokers that didn't deliver www.ft.com/content/0bac...

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Brussels "significantly" downgrades the forecast for the EU economy due to rising trade tensions. The eurozone will grow 0.9% this year and 1.4% in 2026.

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The folks at @knightgtown.bsky.social are doing cutting-edge research on recommender systems. 👇 In this new commentary for @dsaobservatory.bsky.social l, @alissacooper.bsky.social and Peter Chapman discuss key findings and their relevance to the DSA. dsa-observatory.eu/2025/05/19/m...

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