This isn’t about European censorship It’s the usual weaponised misattribution of Trump and allies.

Once in a century political opportunity here, if only there were a party to claim it

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As far as I’m aware no other country in the EU relies solely on a publisher broadcaster Why would Ireland lead way in weakest public service broadcasting on the continent? Answers on a postcard…

At OI media committee Labours Alan Kelly appears to suggest he supports government move to make RTÉ a publisher broadcaster Anyone know if this is agreed Labour policy?

Is the government's hollowing out of RTE an abrogation of duty in the face of a democratic onslaught? On Morning Ireland this morning, Fianna Fáil TD Malcolm Byrne said RTÉ is moving towards a publisher–broadcaster model like Channel 4 or TG4, .

More than 50 irish academics call for real debate on government agenda to fully hollow out the psb RTE to a publisher broadcaster model fujomedia.eu/news/more-th...

Fantastic piece from my colleague Eileen Culotty Short sighted profit driven politicians sleepwalking into the destruction of our public media institution in one of the most challenging information environments democracy has ever faced. #speirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Writing about immigration in @irishexaminer.bsky.social Govt taking a risk with tougher talk & policies. May look like it's following public opinion but Irish econ is hugely dependent on intrnl labour. Few parties have out flanked the right on migration & won www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

At a meeting in Council of Europe Hearing from example after example of citizens assemblies across Europe from Ukraine to Germany All concerned about democratic backsliding and threat from far right Notable how Ireland, once a leader and exemplar. is reverting to the old elites know best model

The LUAS Red Line was thrown into chaos at rush hour this evening due to an incident at St James's. In order to find out what was going on with the service, the LUAS expected thousands of affected passengers to check their X account. It's ridiculous, enraging, and at this stage totally unacceptable

Help 🙏 I’m moving into Ch2 of my PhD by PP, which focuses on the shift in practice embodied by my memoir Negative Space. If you know of any academic writing which references my work, I’d be very grateful to be pointed in its direction. @lilydunn.bsky.social @minxmarple.bsky.social please share? #phd

Europe faces an existential choice: build genuine technological sovereignty now, or accept governance by platforms whose architects view democracy as an obsolete operating system. www.authoritarian-stack.info

Many have asked for the LLM Survey paper. The release was bungled a bit by PNAS, but it is live now: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Yes agree need to review.

This! 👇 It is also a good reminder that we are not experiencing polarization but right-wing radicalization!

Just listened to a report on Ireland’s biggest morning radio show and assumed I was listening to a TikTok spokesperson or lobbyist. Turns out it was a reporter… We’ve got to do a better job training

Because we can all see how well Americans are doing with the less regulated tech world of the US 🫣. What is the EU thinking? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/t...

Essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the plight of the BBC. And the imperative for Labour to Farage proof it. But also full of colourful detail and essential lessons for RTE and others where the same weaknesses could be exploited

AI in education is being treated as an unbelievable, better-than-Covid opportunity for profitmaking by the exploitative, predatory, extractive edtech industry

💸 Do you know how much money Big Tech is spending on lobbying in Brussels? How has this amount been increasing? On what is the money being funnelled to and what can we do about it? 📻 Listen to our new #podcast episode to find out 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/t...

Agree And politicians too

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

And if we think it’s bad now, imagine what it could look like, say, two months from a U.K. general election? Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)

It’s not just the Telegraph it looks like deliberate destruction from within, driven by hard right Robbie Gibb PR friends on an odd committee. Alan Rusbridger worth listening to here podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/m...

This is absolutely nuts Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

Irish public sector broadcaster justifying moving documentary staff to soap - fair city- and entertainment and entirely outsourcing documentaries ! RTÉ moving towards a publisher broadcaster model with public secretive focused on news and entertainment.. gotta say the unions should be listened to

X is designed to radicalise people. The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain. Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Very good reason for policymakers to quit X. They’ll end up imagining they’re living in a country far more right wing than it is. Inside their own angry micro public. Combine that with real threats and the impact must be toxic.

As Zohran Mamdani wins the New York election, check out our @empirepoduk.bsky.social special, an interview with his father, my friend the wonderful Professor Mahmoud Mamdani on his family's history in East Africa & their journey to America. Zohran zindabad! share.google/RS4MWp65kxNy...

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration

And there's also a very cool piece by @davekarpf.bsky.social where he argues that digital analytics hastened the GOP's radicalization. Highly recommend! 👍⤵️ academic.oup.com/book/60493/c...

Another paper (not yet officially out but hopefully soon), where we show that various degrees of online connectivity are strongly associated with far-right issue uptake by partisan elites: mikecowburn.com/wp-content/u...

We have a paper tracing US Members of Congress' engagement with far-right and questionable sources on Twitter. This correlates with how extreme they are. doi.org/10.1177/1354...

Seeing lots of comments and sounds plausible. But is there any research on the toxic impact on policymakers of spending much time on Twitter?

If you're in the vicinity of @dculibrary.bsky.social, please pop in to see an exhibition selected from the archive material I've donated. It relates to my first book, The Destruction of Dublin (1985), and the Dublin Crisis Conference I helped to organise in February 1986. A blast from the past!

Thinking about the top down approach of this Irish government It’s clearly a retrograde step Allowing old and new pathologies to emerge Yes decisions around elections and not listening to backbenchers are a symptom but so too is the absence of listening through citizens assemblies

Ireland disinformation update: Reddit locked down one of the most-used parts of its platform in Ireland (r/ireland, claiming 1.2m members) due to what moderators called a “wave of new and inactive accounts spreading disinformation and hate speech connected to recent events.”

For more on Irish disinformation see our edmo hub here edmohub.ie/index.php/ed...

Interesting the role of young men on Twitter and TikTok here. Much more research required into precise pathways. Appears to be a similar group to those who are anti immigrant and believe conspiracies in previous research

Great service and really interesting. Those who spoiled their votes were young men in particular active on social media. “the largest groups who spoiled were people who had voted for Independents, Aontú and Sinn Féin at the 2024 election”

The New York Post is owned by Lachlan Murdoch, solely because his daddy bought it and passed it on to him. And it's backing Andrew Cuomo, a meathead whose whole career in politics stems from his daddy being good at it. But *Mamdani* is the nepo baby, because his mom was a filmmaker? Sure.

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has signed a joint letter to the government to express our deep concern at the recent appointment of the third Commissioner of the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) ➡️ www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Ireland has joined CERN which means that Professor Brian Cox can walk into your house whenever he wants and take things to use in his "experiments." Disgusting.