I think there are some pretty legitimate questions for the Greens to answer in this short thread – entirely possible they didn't know the history here, but if so they should say that and distance themselves.

I know it shouldn't, but the number of people responding with critiques of an article we just published, which make it clear they haven't actually read the article (or at the very least failed to parse it even vaguely effectively), still surprises me.

Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime: www.404media.co/leaked-email...

I know it shouldn't, but the number of people responding with critiques of an article we just published, which make it clear they haven't actually read the article (or at the very least failed to parse it even vaguely effectively), still surprises me.

I’m pretty confident in calling this fake. The user who posted it seems to be part of a substantial network of accounts with similar usernames all posting and commenting on each other’s content. Ironically it’s a great example of an AI agent making stuff up to tell you what you want to hear

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When Peter Mandelson was fighting to keep his job as US ambassador, a mysterious account was making favourable edits to his Wikipedia page And when he was fired? The same account went into overdrive...

The Great Rebundling

I have today been informed that, despite personal assurances to the contrary, the Green party have once again used my image and misrepresented my words on a second leaflet circulated in Gorton and Denton ahead of the by-election. I have now lodged an official complaint with the returning officer.

People often jump to saying online propaganda is either the work of radicalised actors, or else Russia. In practice, it’s amazing how often the answer is much simpler – someone is chasing either (a) clout, (b) money, or (c) both.

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

Honestly i just want more of that D&D movie the entire industry seems to want to forget about because they accidentally made a film too charming and now people have experienced a pleasant time and have expectations

This is, fundamentally, an incredibly funny thing for someone who considers themselves cultured to think, let alone say on a public platform

a lot of americans are convinced we need to re-invent the entire financial wheel just because they're still paying for things with cheques. This is a you problem/skill issue, guys

the presence of a journalist does not mean the identity of every person the journalist encounters suddenly becomes a public fact. what I am discovering is that an alarming number of people appear to believe in this kind of miasmatic journalism. real journalists work by very strict disclosure rules

Jewish descendent of holocaust victims and survivors here. What he said was fine. Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough. I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.

The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible. It leads on "sharply contested narratives" It has a dramatic skew to the US government It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

I'm seeing people mistakenly claim the gun photo was posted before today, but its just how Google sometimes dates images based on the original date of the thread its posted in, not when it was posted. The photo was posted an hour ago in this 5 day old thread www.reddit.com/r/fivethirty...

i suppose it makes sense but it is completely demoralizing that we live in a moment where there is more video/photographic evidence (often from multiple angles) than ever before and also a durable system in place for propagandists to gaslight or convince others into not believing their eyes

Per this report ICE has detained several witnesses

This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol

It's so exhausting to to be constantly told by American leaders that the defining policy of the 80 odd years during which the US became the most wealthy and powerful country in the history of the world was a grossly unfair failure for them.

Very strange Economist leader. Not sure ‘bad things also happened in the 18th and 19th centuries’ is an especially reassuring argument. America has coped with worse things than Donald Trump economist.com/leaders/2026...

Critical piece about a new Palantir app ICE is using to determine the “density” of potential people to deport in a given neighborhood. Gives some indications on how ICE is deciding where to act www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Charlie Kirk from The Charlie Kirk Show, Oct. 26, 2023:

As of now, that's still possible in the UK.

Wikipedia was created 25 years ago, today – since then it’s become the largest collection of relatively reliable knowledge in history But how vulnerable is it to those willing to pay top dollar to polish their reputations? And how do British PR firms help them do it?

We're now seeing headlines that claim X is blocking Grok from complying with requests to undress and sexualize women. Wrong again gang — it happily stripped me, gave me bigger breasts, and put me in pornographic poses, entirely for free. All I had to do was ask. www.theverge.com/news/861894/...

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I don’t think we need to hand it to Hitler

Finding the reactions to this bleakly funny. Lads, the point isn’t that you are sending enough people to “win”, because we in fact, can’t win. It is just to have a tripwire! If you are going “why not 13, like Germany?” you have not understood how bad things are.

Much higher than the estimate death toll in the 2022 protests, and probably the bloodiest crackdown in the Islamic Republic's history, if you exclude the murder of political prisoners in jails in the 1980s.

I trust Sunder but actually had to still check this because it is too insane/terrifying.

The Verge has made this point too bsky.app/profile/zomb...

Elon Musk calling accountability for nonconsensual sexual images an "excuse of for censorship" perfectly exposes the lie at the heart of his "censorship industrial complex" crusade. When addressing abusive material of women and children is labeled "censorship," the term has lost all meaning.

for contrast bsky.app/profile/noup...

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

When the obits for Bluesky are written – and that day probably got closer lately – a trans writer getting hounded off the site amid a row over modding video games to give characters bigger boobs (but wokely, apparently?) is definitely gonna be in there.

So much interesting in this (and good work on @caseynewton.bsky.social documenting it). One thing to note though, Google's watermarking identified the image of the badge as created by its AI tool. Other image generators haven't bothered implementing anything similar, why? (Looking at you, Sora.)

that's a lot of power users gone because of dogpiling. christ

If the government genuinely believes this stat then boy am I confused about what they think the next election is going to look like for them

If there is an argument then this is the argument. But lol I can’t find where this obviously false stat is coming from. And if the government does believe more than half the families in the UK are using it as their primary news source then woah maybe time to up the scrutiny of it!

oh noes, urgent contact to establish steps they have taken, they must be quaking in their boots, this will put a stop to it at once

And over to you @ofcom.bsky.social We have the regulatory tools. You would not tolerate this with any other medium, why not act now? Shut it down. Imagine if any other company did this, their owner would be in court/jail

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