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SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."

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The EU's Disinformation Code will now be a "benchmark" for platform compliance under DSA. I asked experts whether the Code's integration into DSA effectively mitigate disinformation in the EU or will it serve as another regulatory sleight of hand. www.techpolicy.press/the-eus-code...

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Serbian authorities raided the offices of the fact-checking organization Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability in Belgrade citing "unsubstantiated claims of corruption about USAID made by Elon Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump as justification."

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A viral image on Reddit and TikTok seen in London 👍

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Control on access (influencers-driven and anti-mainstream media), control on language (AP and the 'Gulf of Mexico' case) and plaftorm politisation are the components of Trump's government communication playbook.

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DC-based USAID employees just received an email telling them to collect their belongings from the old HQ later this week. They will only have 15 minutes to do so, according to an email viewed by WIRED. (Even those that have not received a RIF notice.)

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Post-Paris AI Summit aligments: "The UK government chose to side with the US by refusing to sign the Paris declaration endorsed by 66 other countries at the summit" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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On how Musk has shadowbanned all his ex-wives on Twitter for making public claims about his family obligations www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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¡Fenómeno! And not only a fraud investigation in Argentina but also in the US

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Macron in a face to face fact-checking session with Trump. Someone had to do it.

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“Leaders could not immediately identify how monitors had been hacked to display the images, and ended up simply unplugging several devices, according to two people familiar with what transpire” 😆

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New from me: Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed: www.propublica.org/article/face...

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Oh yeah baby, let’s go back to Nahuatl!

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Has anyone seen this? Apparently it's being deleted from American sites. I've had a feeling PP is a Russian plant as well. How can we prove this? uk.news.yahoo.com/donald-trump...

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The Mad King Had A Bad Week - The Economy Is Slowing, Inflation Is Rising, His Poll Numbers/Consumer Confidence Are Falling And Folks Are Starting To Rise Up open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...

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Germany's youth is abandoning the political center in favor of the fringe left and right.

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Here's another rare story/topic that you don't often get to read about if you live in the West. "The Pentagon ran a secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during a pandemic." #ICYMI www.reuters.com/investigates...

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#CornellTech law professor James Grimmelmann spoke with Wired about how Thomson Reuters won the first major #AI copyright case in the U.S.: bit.ly/4kbztgA “If this decision is followed elsewhere, it's really bad for the generative AI companies,” Grimmelmann said. @cornelllaw.bsky.social

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NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”

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A Colombian columnist X account (apparently abandoned) became an “X Token” and now is retweeting Musk’s posts. Seems the destiny for inactive accounts? I’m still there watching X becoming the growing fascist echo chamber but maybe it’s time to delete myself completely 😬

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Published originally on the other side. I have seen a couple of good memes this week over there.

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Notice how the AP is suing the White House on freedom of speech, not freedom of the press. I hope @dbauder.bsky.social will say more about this as the story unfolds. Meanwhile here is something to read on the difference between the two. www.cjr.org/analysis/thi...

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The landscape of digital disinformation interventions through 2030 will greatly depend on the battle between US companies and the EU over the Digital Services Act. So for this week's Faked Up, I reached out to 8 experts to help me riddle it out. Here's what they said: fakedup.org/will-eu-disi...

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The ironic story of the day. Fact-checkers are among the top sources for X’s Community Notes, study reveals. Notes that cite fact-checkers earn more trust from X users and combat misinformation faster www.poynter.org/ifcn/2025/fa...

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I can"t believe that journalists have accepted such a job. Meet the journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI. The gig work platform Outlier is one of several companies courting journalists to train large language models (LLMs). www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/meet...

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It looks like Steve Bannon just did a Nazi salute at the end of his CPAC speech.

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Interesting piece from HIIG on patterns in Community Notes on Xitter ahead of the German elections: www.hiig.de/en/commu...

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Trump Sick And Tired Of Mainstream Media Always Trying To Put His Words Into Some Sort Of Context theonion.com/trump-s...

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Your new (batshit) FBI director, America...

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Is it the third time after completing his first month in the office that he has asked this question?

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Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"

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Elon Musk pusht die Pro-Kreml Parteien AfD und BSW im For You Feed von Twitter. Sie tauchen öfter im For You Feed auf als ihrem Anteil entspricht. Die Forscher haben dafür Test-Accounts erstellt, die allen Politikern auf X folgen. BSW und AfD waren krass überrepräsentiert.

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Bernie Sanders: “Fox and Musk’s platform X, among others, are not normal media outlets. Their basic function is not to cover the “news” but to spread rightwing extremist ideology.” 💯 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Not good: Like AfD is distributing non return-like tickets as “flyers” in its campaign.

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Future AIs

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Una total mierda lo que esta pasando.

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About the purchase of citations and other dubious scientific practices.

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Ups, trouble in paradise?

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Welp—Asteroid ☄️impacting Earth 🌎 odds now 3.1%, says NASA. Yesterday it was 2.7%. The week before was 2.2%.

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