In Danish: Contributing to this story on how several news outlets wrongly linked a Danish politician to the Epstein files after confusing her with a Norwegian ambassador of the same name. www.berlingske.dk/kultur/mona-...

Sad to learn that the open access journal First Monday will cease to exist after 30 years of internet research. I published one of my very first articles there in 2017. Kudos to the editorial team. Hopes for an open access future. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

Tech billionaires fuel Donald Trump’s $429mn haul ahead of midterm elections: www.ft.com/content/5038...

RIP Sly Dunbar! What a legend. Will put on Ini Kamoze's debut album and pay respect. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j... www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzYq...

It's the famous kettle logic: - The victim was a terrorist - The victim was wielding a weapon - Nobody wanted to see the victim dead - We already know what happened - We are currently investigating everything

Resharing this one year later.

"CNN video analysis sheds new light on killing of Alex Pretti" www.cnn.com/2026/01/25/u...

THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets. They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

To explain authoritarian movements through echo chambers, filter bubbles, and misinformation is to deny their deliberateness.

Why do we still think they don’t know what’s going on? No, people consciously choose to believe what they want. They watch exactly what they choose. Have we considered that they are simply awful people? Or yes, you can say they are traumatized, they had bad childhood, anything can be explained.

Many rightly call out the insane hypocracy of gun rights advocates justifying murder because the victim carried a gun. Just want to add that authoritarian movements NEVER respect any of the principles they proclaim to follow. It's always only about rights of the in-group to terrorise out-groups.

Our initial analysis is up. The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot. He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.

Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara: "The video speaks for itself. We have identified this person - 37-year-old, white male, resident of the city. The only interaction that we are aware of with law enforcement has been for traffic tickets and we believe he is a lawfully gun owner with a permit to carry"

The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

They’re fucking murdering us, man

My 2-year-old has started saying: "I'm just doing my job" whenever I thank her for helping out. No idea where she picked it up but it feels like social commentary.

Imagine being a professor and admitting this on Nature.com: "I used it [ChatGPT) as an assistant every day — to write e-mails, draft course descriptions, structure grant applications, revise publications, prepare lectures, create exams and analyse student responses" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Reading material for a better 2026 (within if not without) @jfarkas.bsky.social 👍

"White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

These so-called "patriotic" 🇬🇧newspapers who brought you Brexit were never really patriotic at all. They are driven by a disdain for Britain's European neighbours, and a fawning obsession with America. They do not really want 🇬🇧 to be sovereign. They're content being a 🇺🇸vassal.

Important and well researched piece on the extensive (!) lobbying access of big tech platforms and AI companies. “A government of a sovereign state has a duty to its own citizens, not to the tech bros” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Google traffic to publishers dropped by ONE THIRD in 2025 pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

U.S. technology companies are seeking support from far-right parties in Europe for their legislative agenda.

The NYT hits us with good old victim blaming: Greenland is a temptress.

A quiet joy of academic work: opening your inbox to abstracts from scholars you deeply admire, for an edited volume you can’t wait to read.

Winter run - without slipping 😊

My books are currently on sale from Routledge. Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy (2nd ed., 2023) www.routledge.com/Post-Truth-F... Digital Media Metaphors (2024) www.routledge.com/Digital-Medi...

What journalistic failure looks like

Our major media orgs--even during the best of times when they're merely profit-driven outlets and not ideological mouthpieces and playthings of right-wing oligarchs--primarily serve the role of status quo managers. They rationalize & normalize elite actions & interests. They rarely defend democracy.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

This needs to be the news headline.

Five books and five records that inspired me in 2025: Books: 1) American Technological Sublime by David E. Nye (1994) 2) The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi (1944) 3) Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams (2025) 4) Essential Essays by Stuart Hall (2019) 5) The Code by Margaret O'Mara (2019)

New essay out that draws from my current book project (might be paywalled – I will post a gift link soon). academic.oup.com/ccc/article-...

In the news business, we call this a “puff piece.” It’s about the Ellisons, an “intriguing partnership,” according to the NY Times, which seems more impressed by people’s bank accounts than anything else. The Ellisons are buying up media to prop up a dictator. That’s the news. 1/4 🧵

NYT describing a state-backed authoritarian-aligned media takeover, which could soon "range from CNN to Warner Bros. to TikTok" as an "intriguing partnership" 😶

Stuart Hall on teaching 💛 “Let me put it this way: you have to be sure about a position in order to teach a class, but you have to be open-ended enough to know that you are going to change your mind by the time you teach it next week” (Hall, Essential Essays vol. 1, p. 245)

How do journalism scholars apply discourse analysis? Find out in our new article in Journalism Studies! Spoiler: We find a theoretical deficit, as 28% of articles apply discourse analysis (DA) without reference to any major theoretical school. doi.org/10.1080/1461...

GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered? GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now THOMPSON: What does that mean?

Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?" Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

Why make your building fun and creative when you can just write it on the front? (seen in Brussels)

In Brussels, not as a Christmas tourist. Here to present my current research on fact-checking and democracy. At the SoMe4Dem stakeholder event on Resilient Democracy Online. More info: www.brussels-school.be/output/event...

Around 10% of Meta's revenue comes from literal crime. That’s not a moderation failure, it's a business model. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Delighted to announce that my PhD thesis "Misinformation Claims in Australian News: Lies, Fakes, and Scare Campaigns" is now available on QUT E-Prints at doi.org/10.5204/thes.... Big moment 🥹 massive, unspeakably huge thanks to my family, my supervisors, and my thoughtful and engaged interviewees.

Presented a poster for 'Digital Media Metaphors: A Critical Introduction' at our department seminar: Can you guess the metaphors?

And we're off: #Nordmedia25 Looking forward to great discussions with Nordic research colleagues.

Re-reading Marc Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto. Had forgotten the big brain argument that AI regulation is actually murder: "any deceleration of AI will cost lives. Deaths that were preventable by the AI that was prevented from existing is a form of murder" 🙃