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alexboyd.bsky.social
National misinformation + politics reporter, Toronto Star. Based in Alberta
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I can’t stress this enough #journalism #localnews #bcpoli

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Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

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Seconds ago, the Senate voted to confirm the nomination of this guy to be FBI director. www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel...

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

Don't tell me I have to actually watch a hockey game because patriotism

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Incredible stuff in here: They ID'ed him, in part, by going to court hearings and watching him post

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Interesting take. "One of the less frequently noticed luxuries of the postwar liberal order was the licence to be a fool... Try rejecting modern medicine in the Horn of Africa." www.thetimes.com/article/b3bb...

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Has anyone written something good about whether there has been an uptick in plane crashes lately or whether it just.... feels alarming?

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Great quotes here from a Canadian official — viewing the provincial premiers as rubes who went to DC, learned it’s not actually that easy dealing with Trump, paid $85,000 for a meeting with senior-mid-level staff, got publicly ridiculed after by that Trump staff ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/214...

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

A tiny sliver of hope in this lovely story from @doubleemmartin.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

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I will admit to being curious about whether there's any precedent here and and thought this was interesting in the wake of, you know, Trump saying he wants this. It's not a how-to manual and mentions how pissed Canadians are like five times. Sadly, media ignoring topics doesn't make them go away.

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Tulsi Gabbard confirmed as Director of National Intelligence. My team 1st encountered her while studying conspiracy theories denying chemical weapons attacks and other war crimes in Syria (~2017). She repeatly spread those false claims, echoing Russian disinfo. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Prebunking is a technique to preempt manipulation online. Learn more here: prebunking.withgoogle.com See also this nice explainer from First Draft News firstdraftnews.org/articles/a-g...

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The plot thickens…

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Millions will starve, but misinformation is harmless, right? All this is done to save 1% of the federal budget. "Right-Wing Crusade Against USAID Has Been Fueled by Falsehoods." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/b...

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Question: say you were attending a 15-minute-ish talk on misinformation and fake news aimed at the general adult public, what would you want to hear more about? What would you want to take away knowing? Any specific questions?? (Help!)

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Question: say you were attending a 15-minute-ish talk on misinformation and fake news aimed at the general adult public, what would you want to hear more about? What would you want to take away knowing? Any specific questions?? (Help!)

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Just throwing this out into the universe but I would listen to a whole podcast series about wtf is up with masculinity right now.

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Hi all, I pretty much got out of the habit of posting on social media after Twitter became a hellscape 😑 Thanks for all the interest for our new Fifth Estate investigative documentary, The Shadow War on Libraries. So encouraging seeing such thoughtful discussion!

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here's a piece we worked on over the past few days about USAID and the misinformation, Russian-linked propaganda and right-wing disinfo that's fueling the effort to dismantle it www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/b...

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