Twitter is turning 20 years old this month and we are slowly starting to have a debate about social media regulation (in the form of age restrictions). I’m looking forward to discussing if and how we should regulate generative AI around 2045.

My piece on the counteroffensive of juries against authoritarian attempts to restrict their right to reach verdicts based on conscience, irrespective of threats of contempt of court. https://theecologist.org/2026/feb/23/ceausescu-moment

Next Sunday, we're launching our very first book: "Algorithms of Collapse: What to do about AI and automation", written by João Camargo and Sascha C. BrandsmaHey! It's a key issue for the future that definitely needs to spawn new initiatives and struggles. The […] [Original post on mo-me.social]

HAPPENING THIS THURSDAY FEB 26!! Disinformation and Democracy - public talk with Carole Cadwalladr and Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, chaired by Media Revolution’s Liz Pendleton. https://www.thersa.org/events/2026/02/disinformation-and-democracy/ Together they’ll examine how AI is […]

6pm on the 26th, Media Revolution presents: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I2R-HoySKUE

Fediverse.party is looking for a social blogging platform to highlight. I just posted some musing on possible selection criteria and the pros and cons of various candidates; https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/issues/15#issuecomment-10658060 Feedback welcome. Here or there, but if you […]

‘The issues that have drawn public attention are a very small part of the picture - but could this be the crack that lets the light in?’ https://mediarevolution.org/news/is-this-a-tipping-point-for-social-media/

On 7 February 2010 at 19:51 SAST, I wrote the following on my Facebook profile: "Playing around with the Twitter API. Testing to see if I can update my Twitter status programmatically from my C# application." Those were the days. When Twitter's API was free and open and anyone could use it […]

"Freedom of expression is not the right of a magnate to buy the public debate and manipulate it through algorithms that amplify confusion." Spanish president Pedro Sanchez fires clear shots at Elon Musk during his speech at the World Government Summit - and announces Spain's ban on social media […]

Utterly sickening article in the Sun smearing the Palestinian 6 as going into an Elbit factory armed to attack cops and security guards. Despite the jury finding the opposite. This trial shows our jury system can still work, when it's not influenced by a […] [Original post on mo-me.social]

Behind the scenes at Media Revolution we're analysing data from our ongoing Media Trust Survey. And guess what? It's even worse than we thought. Survey data out soon, but we can already tell you that public trust in the media is lower than a bow-legged […] [Original post on mo-me.social]

Will you take the red pill, and follow the #bigtechwalkout 2026 programme - completing your move away from #bigtech products? https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2026/ Or will you take the blue pill and go back to billionaire algorithm simulation? #privacy #control […]

Here's what the Rebel Tech Alliance website does for you : https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/ (Screen grab from our home page) #privacy #bigtech #ethicaltech #broligarchy #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism

I had the honour to spend time with Exeter Young Greens today, talking all things Movement Media and #NewsClubs - including using CAPE to tackle #climate #disinformation Huge thanks and a massively warm welcome to Mo-Me @EwanBods @_mills_m_ @g3orge_06 […] [Original post on mo-me.social]

Time for a consumer union. #touchpaper https://www.linkedin.com/posts/press-justice-project_polling-shows-huge-public-support-for-press-activity-7423008294388248576-8B9v

Welcome, new Movement Media (Mo-Me) Revolutionaries! 👋☺️🙏 @luteman @john_guinn @MacNaughtae @phil @joolsieP @warrenbmalone On the #fediverse some people start off with an #introduction post, and that can help find followers and break the #ice (not that kind of ice, though, would be good!) Let […]

Excited to welcome some new Mo-Me users and... of course, new tech being new tech, it just so happens that our Media Revolution channel - with the aggregated feed of indie news and campaigns has got a bug and is frozen on yesterday 🐛🫣 However the good people at @newsmast are all over it and it […]

The @Declassified_UK #summit has been busy! The need for a #mediarevolution for peace is clear!

We've launched our DIY guide to dismantling #disinformation. The CAPE toolkit enables you to analyse any item in the news media by questioning its Content, Accuracy, Politics, and the Emotions it’s aiming to provoke. We launched and demonstrated the toolkit at […] [Original post on mo-me.social]

The Media Revolution team is off to the @Declassified_UK "Challenging the War Machine" #summit today as exhibitors - maybe see you there?!

Miles Taylor: tRump’s arrest of Don Lemon marks the start of his crackdown on new media. #Trump spent last year intimidating the mainstream #Media. Now he’s coming for everyone. #donlemon #FreeSpeech #constitution #law #journalists https://www.defiance.news/p/breaking-trumps-arrest-of-don-lemon

The arrests of reporters Georgia Fort and Don Lemon for engaging in journalism are outrageous. The Media and Democracy Project, and many other press freedom groups, joined this statement by the National Association of Black Journalists #nabj […]

"The poll reveals that 71% of Brits want the press to be regulated by a body that is independent from both politicians and newspaper publishers. 73% of those polled also believe newspaper corrections for inaccurate or misleading reporting should be published with the same size and prominence as […]

January is Fediverse #punk Month! https://fedi.the-counterforce.org

AI is being diffused throughout society under chatbots, models, and agents which are explicitly reactionary and create communicative and physical walls to defend the status quo. Capitalism has elected AI as the next tool to distribute and dismantle labor, create a new power structure in the […]

First Media Revolution event of the year. As timely as It could be https://www.thersa.org/events/2026/02/disinformation-and-democracy/

📆 TONIGHT! Disinformation Defence! 19:00 - 20:-00 GMT Register: shorturl.at/r3czU 🛠️ New disinformation toolkit 🛡️ Practical ways to protect yourself *and others* from billionaire brainwashing 💬 Improve media literacy and help others Please share! See you there!

The tide is starting to turn on the billionaire owned social media companies. Australia have banned U16 from accessing sociall media. France is strengthening their current requirements for U15. Denmark, Malaysia and the UK are considering similar bans. "These companies are using every lever of […]

Google AI is becoming more pervasive, editing what journalists write, and is even harder to avoid. "these AI headlines are akin to a bookstore replacing the covers of the books it puts on display" Sean Hollister - senior editor and founding member of The Verge […]

Lying laws. Good idea or censorship? Could this curb disinformation from politicians (much of which is the malignant medias' main fodder)? #laws #politics #disinformation #freespeech https://theconversation.com/one-country-is-trying-to-outlaw-political-lying-without-curbing-free-speech-273526

"No longer using X is an active step in protecting women and children" Becca Everett - Labour deputy leader of the Erewash Borough Council in Derbyshire. #socialmedia www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kee6xjzv2o.amp

As the world desends into tech authoritarianism, war and climate and nature catastrophes. The billionaire Social Media owners are creating destravtions with nepo-babies who earn astonishing amounts per instragam post. As report in the Sun, which has been using […] [Original post on mo-me.social]

There are new levels of low on billionaire owned Social Media every day. This brilliant article - by John Mulholland of The Nerve - breaks down 10 recent examples of fascist propaganda in US government social media posts. It likens them to "dry humping Nazi slogans". 👀 […]

Deadly Floods in Mozambique, the end of the Palestine Action political prisoners' hunger strike and ChatGPT introduces ads to make the whole thing even worse. This week on Tempest. Like and Share! 🌪

Prince Harry is putting his head above the parapit and going after one of the most politically powerful otganisations in the country. The Daily Mail. The Sun are reporting in the 9 week case which starts this week. The Sun's owners were the targets the last […] [Original post on mo-me.social]

Big hello to @poppicorn and @Ayliatai !! Enjoy Mo-Me! Cc @MediaRevolution

This week, Argentinian Patagonia's wildfires, Grok spewing AI-generated nudes of real women and children and protests in Bolivia, Iran and the US. Like and Share!

Toxic social media is are harmful for everyone, especially young people, but no one is safe. Limiting access to them isn't enough. We need to build alternatives with better standards. https://nation.cymru/news/teaching-union-calls-for-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-to-improve-learning/

This week on Tempest: US bombs Nigeria, coastlines recede around the world and a third of Europeans use AI. Exceptionally, Tempest is coming out on Tuesdays this week and the next. Then we’ll go back to our regular Mondays!

Sick of scrolling? Done with disinformation? Angry at algorithms? Let's talk about leaving social media and alternatives to Big Tech. Webinar. Tues 30th Dec - 7pm GMT / UTC. shorturl.at/1Z9dl

Next Tuesday we’ll talk about Leaving Social Media and alternatives to Big Tech. We aren't doomed to stay stuck in catastrophe capitalism's algorithms and need to find ways out of its cages and fixed narratives. There's political and technical components for […] [Original post on mo-me.social]

This is what civil society, in particular the #digitalrights community, is up against now: #trump has barred leaders of @hateaid, the Global #disinformation Index, and the Centre for Countering Digital Hate from entering the US. Expect more restrictions, threats, and intimidation against […]

15 December | This week on Tempest: Australia bans social media for under 16s, Gaza under Israeli occupation and climate disaster and the Bulgarian government toppled by mass mobilizations

By empowering the public to use our collective influence, we can make media work better for everyone. We’re preparing the ground for the first Media Consumers Union – Touch Paper. The union is being registered as a Community Benefit Society which will operate transparently and for the benefit […]

“The lack of public access to accurate, science-based information has created a vacuum which has been filled by polarised headlines that deny and delay action.” The National Emergency Briefing team is demanding an urgent televised broadcast to inform the UK public about the scale of the climate […]

@MediaRevolution was conceived and established as a coordinator of coalitions. Next year we will launch our media consumer union, Touch Paper. Writes @Tom in The Ecologist. https://theecologist.org/2025/nov/26/we-need-media-consumers-union #mediarevolution #touchpaper #mediaconsumerunion

📰🗞️Like a book club, but for news!🗞️📰 One of the most important and radical things we can do in these challenging times is to support one another to understand the immense influence of the news landscape and what needs to change. Starting with breaking out of our individual bubbles, to analyse […]

We need to "Curate our own digital reality" Adele Zeynep Walton from Logging Off Club at the Safer Socials Summit #mediarevolution amongst the experts in the room.

🧨 Touch Paper - in the movement media. https://theecologist.org/2025/nov/26/we-need-media-consumers-union We need a media consumer union! Good job one is being set up - and you're invited to be part of it! Have you registered yet? https://touchpaper.media/ Huge thanks to @Tom for this […]