YouTube/Google has written a letter to Jim Jordan best summarized as “Yes sir thank you Mr Jordan sir” It made Jordan so happy he wrote a very long tweet thread about it. In it, he gloats ab getting them to agree never to do the fact-checking kind of “censorship” and to moderate how he prefers.

This is courage. open.substack.com/pub/treason/...

Hat mich gefreut, hier etwas beitragen zu dürfen @bpb.de www.bpb.de/shop/zeitsch... mit Ralph Hertwig @arc-mpib.bsky.social @mpib-berlin.bsky.social

Jack Posobiec is one of the earliest boosters of the pizzagate conspiracy theory – that morphed into the QAnon movement – which has led to violent acts and deaths across the world. He’s now addressing a memorial service the president is attending.

Instead of a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk, I will be observing a lifetime of speaking out against bigotry and fascism.

New from me: There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo. Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post. Read and judge for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

"Who wants to do business in a lawless country where anyone visiting is at risk of being chained up and imprisoned?" paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-lawless-...

Was great to join this event today and hear about communicating about vaccination with empathy. Looking forward to seeing how the training will be rolled out to meet more healthcare professionals. And as a added bonus, I got to meet @lewan.bsky.social in person after following him for many years!

Having people accusing me of being a censor while the Trump administration is performing acts of blatant censorship is truly crazy making

What British TV is best at is comedy, specifically: dryly mocking being British, dark humor. Why on earth is there not a TV sitcom ripping the piss out of Reform as a totally incompetent party of bigots?

"Miller, who is Jewish, has been denounced by his own uncle as a one-man betrayal of Jewish moral and political values." No paywall: archive.ph/h4MYc

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

Diese Hetzjagden auf Journalisten des ö-rechtlichen Systems sind durch nichts zu rechtfertigen. Es ist absichtvoll. Die Post Truth Agenten wollen jeden zum Schweigen bringen, der sie als Verteidiger demokratischer Prinzipien kritisiert. Wo soll das alles hinführen? Indeed.

The Debunking Handbook 2020 now available also in Basque -- for a total of 21 languages now, all based on volunteer labour. skepticalscience.com...

Washington Post fires their last remaining Black opinion writer @karenattiah.bsky.social over the most benign comments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder... Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed. Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Even if we assume it comes with good intentions, I fail to see how this relentless push to obscure the fundamental asymmetry of American politics by abstract equivocation and empty “both sides” rhetoric could possibly lead this country to a better place. We need to face reality.

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

Call for Papers, 2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit Research on systemic risks from technology that affects information streams or the amplification or monetization of disinformation. www.linkedin.com/pulse/call-p...

In which the richest man in the world tries to incite turmoil, fear and loathing in my city from the safety of his fortified home thousands of miles away. The pathetic little coward. Also why are these patriots being directed by an American? Can't they organise their own fist fight?

We're at a point now where a Fox News host can just casually suggests killing homeless people with a lethal injection on air and no one bats an eye but a MSNBC contributor gets fired for calling Charlie Kirk "divisive".

Read every word of this. Millions of Californians can now be profiled by the color of their skin and the language they speak, thanks to the Supreme Court. This is not the slippery slope. We are already on the slide towards dictatorship.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

The right dreams of a Reichstag fire of their own to pursue an authoritarian crackdown in response to Kirk's murder. www.huffpost.com/entry/charli...

This is how you protect your democracy. The US is a demonstration of what happens when you don't. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

New chapter of Lab Leak Fever out. This is probably the most illuminating one to understand the power of shared conspiracy myths, and how ordinary people can get captured by them during crisis and fundamentally reshape their beliefs and worldviews. Lot´s of amazing social researchers covered!

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

The Trumpists believe they may have found their Reichstag fire moment. And if it is not this one, then how long until something else happens that might serve as pretext? When those who are controlling the levers of state power are itching for violence, how long until mass violence follows?

"Leading Climate and Vaccine Scientists on How to Fight Antiscience" | @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I discuss our new book #ScienceUnderSiege on @kqednews.kqed.org /@kqedforum.bsky.social tomorrow (Thursday) 10am PT/1pm ET:| www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

Astonishingly, I've discovered, the Tufton Street junktanks that shaped Liz Truss's agenda are still operating at the heart of government. Remind me what we voted for again ... This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3

Of course he and his pals are ignoring the real censorship happening under Trump, which we @americansunlight.org document weekly: americansunlight.substack.com/p/last-week-...

Others will be testifying about draconian foreign agent laws in places like Russia and the Republic of Georgia—laws that have crippled dissident movements, landed people in jail, and worse. But Mikey? He's gonna lie about censorship so he can keep pulling in six figures in Substack revenue.

My co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and I talk with the great @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy about our new book #ScienceUnderSiege: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/science-un...

There is a global information war, and America is unilaterally disarming: The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to help autocratic governments manipulate and suppress information. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

Letzte Woche war Stephan Lewandowsky, @lewan.bsky.social​, (rechts) bei uns im Leibniz Lab zu Gast. Der Kognitionspsychologe aus Bristol sprach über die Verbreitung von Fake News in der Gesellschaft und deren Bekämpfung. Zusammenfassung folgt. ​​ @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de​

"The reality is that Secretary Kennedy has profited from and built a career on sowing mistrust in vaccines. Now, as head of H.H.S., he is using his authority to launch a full-blown war on science, on public health and on truth itself." Truth from @sanders.senate.gov. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

The assault on expertise is driven by an agenda to place uniformed, ill-conceived, often politically-motivated antiscience from charlatans on an equal footing with scientific consensus. Please read #ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & me: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-un...

New work by @brendannyhan.bsky.social & @jasonreifler.bsky.social shows further evidence of positive impact of prebunking This is why EIP wrote What to Expect rumor guides for certain periods in elections! And it’s why election deniers reframe this as “brainwashing” www.science.org/content/arti...

Preventing harms from disinformation is not censorship. Speech acts are often separable from harms acts. e.g.,: --Grooming speech may induce physical assault or fraud acts --Populist speech may induce acts of violence, wars of aggression Disinformation research can inform harms interventions.

the lowly worm has the last laugh as it destroys human civilization... #WeAreLivingAnEpisodeOfBlackMirror

If you just look at the language here. "Undeterred". This is a judgement of a Court of Appeal. Not a war against a common enemy. It's the small things that are eroding the rule of law in this country. And the Times has become a driving force in it.

APS Fellow @lewan.bsky.social & colleagues have recently developed the Anti-Autocracy Handbook, which they describe as “a call to action, resilience, and collective defense of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism.”

Add to this: www.protagonist-science.com/p/the-anti-a...

Thierry Breton, former EU Commissioner for Digital Affairs: "If we don’t push back now, we will get humiliation and instability. Will this latest assault on our digital laws finally be enough to wake us up?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I tried to wake Europe up in my April parl. testimony:

The saga of the most deadly brain worm in human history continues...