“Is this a case of Donald Trump taking the US to a brave new economic frontier, or lining his pockets?” Journalist Gabriel Gatehouse looks at why the Trump family and US President are investing in cryptocurrencies. #Newsnight

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Great prog tonight. A small but possibly significant saving is appointment letters. I get a message saying I have a new appointment and if I print the letter within two days, I won't get a copy in the post. I print it out and a week later, the letter arrives in the post.

Always worth noting: ONLY 37%voted leave in deeply flawed corrupted undemocratic ref where the precise leave deal was NEVER defined The RW screwed us all with the help of the media

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie... Want to understand why American politics is such a shitshow? Check out this series of podcasts.

Google v1 "Don't be evil" Google v2: "Oh, right, if you make it worth our while" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

NEW: The removal of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 database signals the Trump administration’s intention to not only spare his supporters any further consequences for their role in the riot, but to erase the event from the record. By @alecmac.bsky.social

Tesla, the world’s largest EV maker, in January registered only 1,277 new cars in Germany it’s a drop of 59% compared with the same month last year www.ft.com/content/ea23...

Pitch for a new spy movie: a CIA agent spends years getting close to a terrorist suspect then just before he gets the crucial piece of evidence he’s fired and replaced with a teenager who doesn’t speak any foreign languages but does have a lot of followers on X. Everybody dies.

In case you happen to read Camilla Tominey in theTelegraph abt Kay Burley leaving Sky, there’s at least 1 inaccuracy in the piece She mentions Newsnight & claims it’s ‘haemorrhaging viewers’ Not true The audience figures are up 30% since the new format began last May

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

From a new study on NewsGuard's role in misinformation research: “NewsGuard has emerged as the most widely used database for source ratings and is especially popular in misinformation research for its comprehensive source-level trustworthiness scores” Read it here: journalqd.org/article/view...

YouGov find just 30% of people think we were right to leave the EU. The lowest number yet. Just 10% of 18-24 year olds think it was the right decision.

“Unfounded cancer cures, dubious anti-vaccine narratives, and false claims that neurological disorders can be "reversed" through diets: influential American and European podcasters are peddling harmful health misinformation while largely escaping scrutiny” https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01-inf…

Tomorrow will be a dark day. But we are a resilient people. We will get through this scourge. robertreich.substack.com/p/tomorrow-w...

Live your life so that when you die, some joyless schmuck is annoyed that his entire social media feed is a wall of people's posts talking about how much you and your work meant to them

Home Secretary YvetteCooper has announced an ‘action plan to expose grooming gangs’ Under new plans, more victims will be given the power to have their cases re-examined, allowing police forces to pursue offenders and secure justice for victims and survivors

Pro-Kremlin sources are citing a fabricated video claiming that eight Ukrainian military officials owned mansions in Southern California that were lost in the wildfires. Read more in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/i/154910460/...

So, Tories finally admit they left the EU with no plan “for growth”. They also had no plan for trade, science, the arts, business, jobs, training, education, travel, farming, fishing, borders, immigration, healthcare, regulations, food security… for ANYTHING… A catastrophe of prejudiced uselessness.

Trump has said he'll overturn a law that helps communities better weather the effects of climate change. If he does, he’ll be reversing an initiative that has disproportionately benefited districts and states that voted for him. New, from @fastlerner.bsky.social @propublica.org

If you’re interested in how conspiracy theories impact those who are victims of them, I highly recommend @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social’s “Conspiracyland”. As someone interested in the future of information literacy, this has been thought-provoking and heart-wrenching. #booksky #booktok

After 14 yrs of Tory neglect patients in England hospitals dying in corridors, pregnant women miscarrying in side rooms. Cupboards, car parks, bathrooms used as makeshift areas for patients All to fund tax cuts for corporations & the rich and facilitate privatisation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is what public service broadcasting looks like. Kudos @vicderbyshire.bsky.social @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social for last night’s prog. 👏👏👏 And yes …Betty is a Ledge! She should have her own show…(And her full compensation too obvs)!

As chatbots push new updates and features, December fail rate jumps to 62% Shifting priorities toward new features over safety measures may have unintentionally contributed to this decline in accuracy and reliability. Read NewsGuard's full report here: www.newsguardtech.com/ai-monitor/d...

I can confirm - Betty Brown loved the cake (All she needs now is full financial redress) #Newsnight #PostOfficeScandal

Donald Trump has said that a meeting is being arranged between himself and Russian President Vladimir Putin

The UK has recorded its coldest night of this winter, along with widespread frost, with more bitterly cold weather expected over the weekend. The lowest recorded overnight temperature as of 09:00 GMT was -14.5C (5.9F) in Altnaharra, northern Scotland.

It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...

@feltmenow.bsky.social Hello!

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳

fascinated by a rhetorical strategy i see all the time now, which is making up an extreme edge case to argue against doing anything for the public good, and doing this from the putative left.

Professor Alexis Jay, who led a 7-year review of sexual abuse which reported in 2022, says starting a new inquiry would delay any implementation of her own recommendations:

@jessphillipsmp.bsky.social on your side Jess. Musk doesn't know what he's talking about. He should keep his toxic comments to himself.

CEOs sometimes made multimillion-dollar bets on the stocks of direct competitors and partners — and did so with exquisite timing. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social and @emsimani.bsky.social (Published March 2023)

Sure one of the best views there is after take off

Brilliant few weeks back from US working on next social media investigations - for Panorama, podcasts & docs - exposing impact of online conspiracy theories and algorithms! Plus lots more episodes of Americast (with undercover voters) on BBC Sounds, analysis about X, and more.

My piece for @the-independent.com on Peter Mandelson becoming our next ambassador to Washington. Risky? Maybe, but overwhelmingly a smart move

It's appalling that the UK government is still using this man's social media system, when he blatantly espouses Germany's neonazi party www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

An AI-generated image claiming to show Tucker Carlson interviewing Bashar al-Assad in Russia has gone viral. It’s being widely shared by pro-Russian and pro-Iranian accounts. Read more in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.c...

King Charles who loves killing foxes, birds, and badgers has been made Patron of the RSPCA. King Charles used his power to block a ban on Fox Hunting and to make sure it is the joke ban we currently have. RT if the RSPCA should remove him.

I've just Googled "live process well", as said by the Bishop of Gloucester FOUR times on @bbcradio4.bsky.social The World This Weekend. The top results refer to the Linux operating system. Conclusion: the bishop is a robot

My exhibition on homelessness opens in St Albans Museum and Gallery next month. I spent six years photographing and collecting the stories of people experiencing homelessness from all over Britain. The stories are hard to listen to.

The leading cause of death for children during the years when kids were not in lockdown because of Covid was ... guns. But the media will not talk about that.

“Musk pouring those sums of money into our politics… to me is quite frightening.” Speaking to @vicderbyshire.bsky.social, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn responds to reports that Elon Musk could donate up to $100m to Reform UK. #Newsnight

Big thanks to everyone who watches, reads and listens for trusting me to reveal real-world impact of what’s happening on social media - algorithms, hate, disinformation - and top teams & presenters! So happy with response to it all - and trolls of course. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

When high-interest news breaks, false claims inevitably follow. Here are some tips that helped us quickly identify and debunk these falsehoods. Read more in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/i/153205085/...