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I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...

submitted 51 days ago • 77 comments

🧵 I argue that we can understand the functioning of democracy through 3 core ideals, verification, deliberation and accountability. While no democracy fully achieves those ideals, this thread explains how MAGA destroys all three and inevitably results in democratic regression into authoritarianism.

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

Great question. “From the ground up” doesn’t mean bypassing politics, it means rebuilding the conditions that make democratic politics work in the first place. A quick thread on how I see the road ahead 🧵

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

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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Trois hommes de nationalité serbe ont été mis en examen et écroués à Paris, suspectés d’avoir dégradé des lieux juifs avec de la peinture verte le week-end dernier « dans le but de servir les intérêts d’une puissance étrangère ».

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

A few additional observations regarding the recent strike on Russia’s strategic aviation may help clarify its scale and implications. Our team assesses the operational strength of the Russian strategic bomber fleet to be at 70 to 90 aircraft. A midpoint estimate puts the number at around 80.

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

Information disorder : definitions firstdraftnews.org/long-form-ar...

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I’ve been thinking a lot about RFK Jr’s proposal to ban government scientists from publishing in major medical journals. It’s not just anti-science, it’s a direct attack on what I call the VDA ideals of democracy: Verification, Deliberation, and Accountabilit

submitted 18 days ago • 20 comments

ActiveStills photojournalist Youssef Alzanoun catches the moment of an Israeli strike on Gaza. Alzanoun was injured here. They bombed Al Yazi residential buildings and shops. At least 34 Palestinians were killed yesterday alone. Stop the genocide. www.instagram.com/reel/DKSLTx5...

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The 15km greyish zone around the clash area where FPVs will burn down everything. The logistics inconvenience starts at 40km and gradually become a nightmare.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Enquête sur les blessés et morts russes dans la guerre en Ukraine. Un déserteur de l’armée russe, ancien informaticien et brancardier en Ukraine a livré au « Monde » des données sur les blessés entre 2022 et 2024.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Guerre en Ukraine : les armées européennes se préparent pour une non-intervention musclée www.caporalstrategiq...

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Russian occupiers are receiving orders to kill Ukrainian soldiers who are taken prisoner, according to CNN. Radio intercepts of conversations between Russian troops indicate that they are being instructed to execute captured Ukrainian servicemen. t.me/c/1377735387...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

🧵 This is a perfect example of how disordered discourse reshapes democratic politics, not by policy failure, but by the performative targeting of identity. Let’s unpack what’s happening.

submitted 24 days ago • 85 comments

🧵 The CNN piece on Bongino and Patel is one of the clearest real-world examples of a key phenomenon in disordered discourse: The agents who stoke it can become its victims, especially when their disordered discourse meets the reality of the institutions it captures.

submitted 27 days ago • 41 comments

Sans surprise, après son appel avec V. Poutine, Donald Trump se range du côté russe et ne soutient plus la demande ukrainienne d'un cessez-le-feu. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

#WarInUkraine #GuerreEnUkraine #Ukraine 🇺🇦 Semaine 18 et 19 - du 28 avril au 11 Mai 2025 Point de situation PARTIE III : SITUATION MILITAIRE 1. METEO 2. STATISTIQUES 3. EVOLUTIONS DE TERRAIN 4. FRAPPES 5. CONCLUSION FIL🧵 - 1/40

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

🇺🇦🕯️ Je suis sans mots. L’Ukraine se réveille dans le sang et l’horreur. Un bus dans la région de Soumy a été frappé par un drone lancet. 9 civils ont été tués. Une famille entière décimée. Cela moins de 24h après les pourparlers à Istanbul. Va t-on enfin punir la Russie ?

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Trump played like a violin as usual. Drops ceasefire demand painstakingly agreed with allies. Puts pressure back onto Ukraine. Woeful. “Donald Trump has demanded that Ukraine should "immediately" agree to direct talks with Russia in a bid to end the war.” news.sky.com/story/have-t...

submitted 35 days ago • 23 comments

Je suis parvenu à assister à l'enterrement d'un soldat russe la semaine dernière. Mon papier dans @ouest-france.fr www.ouest-france.fr/europe/russi...

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

Enorme et excellent travail de @marvinh2g2.fr. Le XXIe siècle sera démocratique ou ne sera pas... à nous de choisir ! A lire...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment