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I'll yell until I'm blue in the face about this, but it's wild to see what @kateconger.com and I saw at Twitter, play out in the federal government. Musk welcomes a challenge in court. He is willing to risk being sued. Everything flows from that mindset. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

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Easy to miss this sort of news because of what happened in the Oval Office today, but the US is also unilaterally disarming vs Russia in cyberspace. I’m sure that Putin will reciprocate…

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No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

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The great Konstantina Bania is diplomatically tackling the "misunderstandings" of Jim Jordan's letter on the DMA theplatformlaw.blog/2025/02/28/u...

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🇩🇪⚖️🇿🇦 My @democracyreporting.bsky.social colleagues for Euobserver on our lawsuit against X, why are we doing this, what is at stake, why Berlin, where it's going, and why it matters for whole of the EU. Vital especially now that the owner of X is also an informal vice-president of US.

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People are having predictable reactions to this piece, which I get, but I actually do think we need to have a collective discussion about epistemic ethics, as it were. She didn't know. Should she have known? Who is responsible for her not knowing? Did she fail or was she failed, or both?

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NEW: Elon Musk’s Starlink is being used at scam compounds that have fleeced billions from people around the world, a @WIRED investigation shows Between November 2024 and Feb, hundreds of phones at eight scam compounds in Myanmar logged 40,000 uses of Starlink, mobile data shows

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Reminder n4683 that platforms do have the power to influence what you see online www.cnbc.com/2025/02/27/m...

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NEW: @law360.bsky.social has created a public database of legal cases involving President Trump's executive orders and other actions. The data is searchable and sortable and will be updated regularly; links to coverage for subscribers. Graphics by @benjayingly.com www.law360.com/trump-legal-...

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The Greatest Depression will have it’s own github repo

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A third of the remaining staff from what was the US Digital Service have resigned rather than help Musk dismantle government services. apnews.com/article/doge...

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FT Exclusive: Peter Navarro, one of the US president’s closest advisers, is pushing for the US to remove Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network — which also includes the UK, Australia and New Zealand. www.ft.com/content/2dfa...

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This IS a coup www.wired.com/story/dan-bo...

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So glad no one in the US listened to our calls to regulate the use of AI in things like hiring because that would have gotten in the way of all this super smart innovation we are seeing

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"The upshot: a likely resurgence of incendiary false stories on Facebook, some of them funded by Meta, according to former professional Facebook hoaxsters and a former Meta data scientist who worked on trust and safety."

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This is the crux of the matter in this excellent column by @gideonrachman.bsky.social. You either have to believe, with little to no evidence, that team Trump is playing 4D geopolitical chess. Or take the obvious signals that this US may want to carve up the world with Russia and China.

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News Analysis: In the first month since he returned to power, President Trump has demonstrated once again a brazen willingness to advance distortions, conspiracy theories and outright lies to justify major policy decisions.

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💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

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“The numerous mistakes, according to people familiar with the complex world of government contracting, suggest that Mr. Musk’s team of outsiders, charged by the president with cutting spending, don’t fully understand it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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This is such a great article explaining why the destruction of research funding will harm the US in the long run. www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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Great overview by @chrischirp.bsky.social categorising 76 Trump administration actions from the last 3 weeks christinapagel.substack.com/p/so-this-is...

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Last week I wrote advertisers were returning to X for fear of being sued This week WSJ reports that advertisers believe X made threats about torpedoing the IPG-Omnicom merger if marketers didn't return Remember this when seeing stories about X's suddenly resurgent biz www.wsj.com/business/med...

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And never will be with statements like gizmodo.com/elon-musk-sa...

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Sources: top X execs hinted to Interpublic and other ad firms that a lack of spending on X could lead to legal woes, due to X's lawsuit against some advertisers (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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🤔 www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

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Mediahuis, the largest media group on the island, sues X in Ireland for scam advertisements, designed to appear as genuine news articles, alleging that they infringe the publishers' trademarks and copyrights and create reputational risk. www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

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"One intelligence officer said he had seen targeting mistakes that relied on incorrect machine translations from Arabic to Hebrew." apnews.com/article/isra...

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ICYMI European Ombudsman's preliminary views on the European Commission's refusal to give public access to the (full) risk assessment report of X www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/doc/corre...

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"Before considering the implications for Europe of what Vance said, we should pause to note its deep hypocrisy. Trump attempted to overthrow the 2020 US presidential election. And his vice-president presumes to lecture Europeans about respect for democracy?" www.ft.com/content/11f1...

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1/ Europe at Munich Security Conference looked like deer in Trump administration's headlights. How have we got this far without a concrete European plan for Ukraine to put on table? How is there still no proper consensus among major EU governments (+UK) on how far Europe is willing to step up?

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The Economist gets this wrong. China, not Europe, has the world’s most onerous artificial intelligence regulation, and enforces much more robustly. The lesson of DeepSeek is not, as JD Vance claims, that safety standards hinder innovation. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

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Kids made a snowman and the prompt was “channel dad’s thoughts about the US’s current foreign policy” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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"most viral false claims about politics on X never get a fact-check approved by the Community Notes system. Musk’s post about Reuters had nine notes proposed as of Friday but none approved to be shown to the public” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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The @wired.com of DOGE.gov is superb, but misses a trend: we are no longer just seeing state power on social media, but the emergence of state social media on X that will superchange propaganda campaigns, crowd out journalism, & drown democracies in mistruths. civic-texts.ghost.io/the-truman-c...

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Scytáles, a Swedish digital identity specialist, in partnership with Deutsche Telekom, was selected by the European Commission to develop a “privacy-compliant age verification system across the EU” that will be integrated with the European Digital Identity Wallet www.scytales.com/post/deutsch...

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