Facebook slow to act on posts celebrating murder of Jews, anti-hate group says

gotta love online business models like this from CityMapper - we will serve you fake news ads, or you can pay to remove them

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

No one in government seems to want to invest in a comprehensive programme to understand the prevalence and impact of notionally bad content online. Until they do that, so much policy is vibes.

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

And guess what? The FCC immediately changed the website to state that the agency is not independent right after Carr's comments!

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This week on the newsletter, it's the long-awaited HS2 CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

It only took a year but we did it, thanks Bluesky people! www.yorkmix.com/pictures-yor... I now know more about the UK artificial tree market than I'd ever expected.

apart from the sheer inconceivable horror of the El Fasher massacre and its attendant horrors itself, the thing I'm feeling depressed about is that it probably won't matter. these were people already on the utmost margins of the global system, who the world has already decided it doesn't care about

I've been investigating digital deception for ~15yrs and 2025 was the worst year. VC-backed bot farms, endless AI slop, industrial level scams, abusive AI nudifiers, Meta paying $ for hoaxes... Deception was legitimized, monetized & shoved down the public’s throat: indicator.media/p/2025-the-y...

It would be sad, if almost amusingly ironic, if the ways we express our fears about AI were the very thing that ended up making them come true.

Probably the most shocking example of early 1980s racist bullying by Nigel Farage so far. As a 17-year-old, Farage routinely used to wait by the Dulwich College gates for 9-year-old Yinka Bankole to arrive. Farage would then point into the distance and tell Bankole ”that’s the way back to Africa”.

Have dug into what’s going on with whistleblowers and AI companies for @transformernews.ai. Featuring: some crackdowns, some transparency, some new laws, and one deeply bizarre cease-and-desist notice. www.transformernews.ai/p/can-ai-emb...

Anthropic is set to publish its whistleblowing policy for employees imminently — likely as soon as this week — making it the second major AI company to publicly reveal how it will handle internal whistleblowing. www.transformernews.ai/can-ai-embra...

This is somewhat nerdy/technical but reveals utterly woeful practices at the OBR – where they relied on free Wordpress plugins to protect some of the most sensitive economic data the UK publishes. Absolutely dismal stuff, and not just one junior staffer screwing up.

we've fetishised "authenticity" in response to rampant dishonesty but in the public sphere it's mostly a performance and therefore just dishonesty in a new disguise

It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.

A reminder that almost all of the "migration crisis" of the last 18 months is a manufactured one – and probably says more about how much X has poisoned our politics than anything about realities on the ground.

NEW: BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture BBC News article & Media Show prevented from repeating Rutger Bregman’s corruption allegation in its coverage… of whether the BBC censored his speech! BBC/Trump fallout continues www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

If anybody has any idea why my Twitter account is Japanese, let me know!!

Ukraine is on the brink of an historic betrayal by Trump to Putin. Keir Starmer must bring our European allies together to back Zelensky, starting by seizing frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine.

Two of the top bosses of the BBC resigned this week, after allegations in a dossier claimed Panorama had altered a Trump quote. One problem: that dossier altered the Trump quote, too www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart) What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...

Once again, I am asking the powers that be to have a basic grasp of how the Internet and actual online safety works. It isn't VPNs which are putting people at risk... Signed, a journalist who has been covering cybersecurity for well over a decade.

Transformer is hiring! We're looking for a senior policy reporter to help us grow our coverage of the power and politics of AI. Based in or near DC, I think it will be a really fun opportunity for a reporter to get stuck in and make the beat their own! www.transformernews.ai/p/senior-pol...

Depressing that the BBC has so little inherent institutional strength, it is kicked about so easily. This is not good sign for our polity.

It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?

Yeah so several major Ukrainian cities are in a complete blackout right now. 0 generation from thermal plants and 0 idea when the power will be back. Just please don’t forget us

This is the woman who made a joking video about SNAP, then was featured in a Fox News story that didn't mention it was a joke, then went viral, then was labeled AI. I found her original post and she shared this in response

Enjoyed editing this look by @duncanweldon.bsky.social at what history's tech backlashes tell us about what to expect with AI: www.transformernews.ai/p/history-su...

Tax policy on the British left is pure "anti-bedtime left". Bizarre idea that you can have a big social democratic welfare state without everyone contributing properly www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Call to action here from @samgregory.bsky.social that it would be nice if OpenAI and others paid attention to.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Oh no.

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it. The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

“Let’s be clear, since a lot of people seem to be finding that difficult: most people who get upset if they see black or brown faces in adverts are racists. There are few other reasons for seeing diversity in advertising to bother anyone.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-s...

I find this dynamic, where MAGA types have begun breaking with Trump over AI, so fascinating. @nickywoolf.bsky.social's dive into it www.transformernews.ai/p/how-maga-l... just has me thinking about this meme...

“I think it was the first time in recent memory I’ve seen the tech industry suffer a defeat like that.” Read @nickywoolf.bsky.social's dive into how MAGA's embrace of AI Safety is causing trouble for Trump's newly cosy relationship with Big Tech. www.transformernews.ai/p/how-maga-l...

“Can you set an AI on a general task of, ‘Break into this network’ and have it do so? ... the results aren’t great ... They’re not zero, but they’re not great.” Read @stokel.bsky.social on why experts aren't — for now — too worried about catastrophic AI-enabled cyberattacks.

Great piece on Transformer by @jamesrball.com .... "As ever, there will be silver linings and small mercies — but there is little point sugarcoating it. A crash, whenever it may come, is likely to be brutal."

🚨 Very pleased to say that Moya Lothian-McLean has become the first Managing Editor at @millmedia.bsky.social. Along with @cameronbarr.bsky.social, who joined recently as Investigations Editor, we're building a formidable team of senior editors. And editors are the 🔑!

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage. Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

*sighs* open.substack.com/pub/jonn/p/n...

There is literally already a relativey decent example of some mitigation already done by Google for Veo 3 in the shape of SynthID that would probably be quite easy to implement...

Nearly 50 news and media organizations have signed an amicus brief supporting AP in the ongoing legal case over White House press access. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.41932/gov.uscourts.cadc.41932.2139056.0.pdf

IMPORTANT All freelancers, self-employed, creatives This is the first I've heard of this, but the Department for Business and Trade is running a consultation on the scourge of late payments, they want to introduce new legislation to tackle poor practices Deadline to respond is 23 October 1/2

This is very good. And is a pretty close reflection of my views, too.