Laws can promote safety, but they can’t outsource parenting. Australia’s plan to ban teens from social media risks normalising mass age surveillance, a precedent that endangers everyone’s privacy. Protecting minors shouldn’t come by treating all citizens as suspects. 🔗 […]

Moldova’s vote exposed a deeper paradox: democracy under attack must be defended, yet each restriction risks eroding the openness it seeks to protect. Russia understands this well. Every defensive move is studied as a stress test of Europe’s elasticity. 🔗 […]

One reason Moldova matters: it is treated as a laboratory for hybrid tactics. #disinformation, illicit financing, staged unrest — each experiment pushes at the edges of democratic resilience. What fails in Chișinău can be refined elsewhere, because there is no periphery. 🔗 […]

🇲🇩 Moldova’s election was not just about who governs in Chișinău. It was about how Europe absorbs pressure when adversaries don’t play by the rules. 🇷🇺 Russia’s campaign there shows why “periphery” is a dangerous illusion. Every weak spot can be weaponized to […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

Recognition, not ideology, is what drives many of today’s extremist acts. If that’s true, prevention can’t just be counter-ideology. It has to address the online economies that make notoriety valuable. I sketch some ideas here → […]

We often expect extremists to have clear doctrines. Increasingly, what we see is incoherence by design: contradictions, mashups, memes. Maybe incoherence is the point. I tried to unpack that here 🔗 […]

Violence once carried manifestos. Now we see bullets engraved with memes and irony. Are we dealing with ideology at all, or with something closer to performance? 📬 My take here […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

#zelensky has pulled off a quiet turnaround. From being humiliated in February, he now has Trump praising 🇺🇦 Ukraine’s army and mocking 🇷🇺 Russia’s failures. That’s narrative warfare at work, patience, symbols, timing. But tone isn’t policy. The test is whether #trump keeps this stance or flips […]

As Italian, I've heard such threats before and similar actions when Berlusconi was Prime Minister. If you are curious to know, it does not get better. #kimmel https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/18/us/trump-news/3e6f9920-edbe-5269-b64d-fb4a0b9b1e28?smid=url-share

Von der Leyen’s call to protect children from harmful platforms speaks to a real concern, but the proposed instruments open a dangerous path. Age verification, ID-linked access, or surveillance backdoors would create new vulnerabilities for all users. The paradox is clear: a shield built this […]

Independent journalism is often treated as something optional, but its decline leaves deep scars. News deserts are not voids: they quickly become fertile ground for #disinformation and hostile narratives. A Media Resilience Programme is more than financial support, it is recognition that media […]

🇪🇺 In her latest State of the Union, Ursula von der Leyen chose strong words: Europe is “in a fight” and democracy itself is the target. The idea of a European Democracy Shield marks a shift, but not without dilemmas. Which measures truly build resilience, and […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

Healthy skepticism asks for verification. Toxic cynicism dismisses everything. #ai makes it tempting to slide from one into the other. If every record can be brushed off with “it’s AI,” then denial wins by default. The challenge is keeping doubt disciplined. 🔗 […]

For decades, images like the moon landing or the fall of the Berlin Wall bound memory together. They were more than documents, they were collective proof. Today, doubt is the default. Tomorrow, what will we trust enough to call history? 🔗 Full reflection here […]

🍊 Trump joked: “If something bad happens, just blame AI.” It was a grin, but also a glimpse of what’s coming. Evidence no longer anchors truth, it invites denial. 👾 Generative tech hasn’t just made forgeries easier. It’s made accountability weaker. 📬 That’s […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

The Gates Foundation frames its shift as streamlining. Yet the backdrop is a climate where Trump and his allies use power to intimidate civil society. That pressure spills over: donors change course, not only to cut costs but to avoid risk. The result isn’t neutrality but distortion: less space […]

The QAnon universe, now fully absorbed into the MAGA movement, continues to interpret Trump’s most banal gestures as coded signals. A recent photo of Trump and JD Vance without ties was reframed by QAnon circles as “evidence” that something momentous is […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

AI development cannot be left to the goodwill of private companies or governments. We would need a shared global digital ethics. Unfortunately, It won't happen. @verge https://mastodon.social/@verge/115033925316797393

Zuckerberg didn’t invent belief as performance. But The Social Network shows us what happens when belief, feedback, and identity merge. The result isn’t distortion. It’s recalibration. 🔗 […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

Installing backdoors into software/hardware is an old wet dream of those who understand nothing about security and have strong authoritarian pulses. Implementing such measures would be a disaster. @verge https://mastodon.social/@verge/114981627600012677

Digital platforms don’t manipulate your thoughts. They change how belief feels. Responsive. Quantified. Shared. 🧠 What happens when identity becomes a system output? 🔗 […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

If belief is what you signal, not what you hold, what happens to the self? 📬 This week on Future Frontiers: The Social Network as a lens on feedback, identity, and how platforms reprogram what we think we believe. 🔗 […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

In The Wave, what spreads isn’t argument—it’s rhythm. Group synchrony, emotional heat, identity coherence. You don’t think your way into belief. You perform it. Then you defend it. 🔗 […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

Belief systems don’t persuade us. They involve us. We act the role before we internalize the idea. The Wave shows how ideological behavior spreads through mimicry and emotion. 💥 Before you agree, you stand. Then you salute. Then you believe. 🔗 […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

What happens when a fact is too dry to compete with outrage? We keep scrolling. Emotional engagement is now the filter. Truth must perform or disappear. 📬 This week’s Future Frontiers piece uses Don’t Look Up to explore what happens when even reality can’t […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

The comet isn't the threat. It's the test. In Don’t Look Up, facts arrive into a world that can’t hold them. Cognitive overload. Emotional fatigue. Saturated feeds. Truth doesn’t vanish. It just gets buried. 🔗 […]

The rules of Project Mayhem are absurd. But they work — because they are rules. That’s what most counter-extremism misses. Structure matters more than content. Fight Club shows why emotional containment often beats intellectual persuasion. 🔗 […]

Radicalization isn’t about what you believe. It’s about what makes you feel stable. Fight Club shows how extremism stabilizes the self through pain, structure, and ritual. This piece asks what happens when institutions no longer offer that grounding. 🔗 […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

📬 This week on Future Frontiers: What Fight Club reveals about radicalization is not ideological. It’s structural. The film traces how fractured identities reach for containers — even violent ones — to feel whole again. The emotional architecture of extremism […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

🏖️ This week’s summer reading isn’t about Her as a film. It’s about Her as a future we’re already inhabiting. What happens to belief when comfort becomes the architecture of truth? #AIphilosophy #beliefsystems 🔗 […]

🏖️ This week’s summer reading isn’t about Her as a film. It’s about Her as a future we’re already inhabiting. What happens to belief when comfort becomes the architecture of truth? #AIphilosophy #beliefsystems 🔗 […]

💌 What if your most emotionally fluent relationship was with a machine? Her shows us how belief can migrate—quietly—when intimacy becomes artificial but emotionally rewarding. 🏖️ This week’s Summer Edition explores what that shift means for epistemic trust. 🔗 […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

📖 Facts don’t win by default. Not in an attention economy. Not when identity decides what's “true.” What then? 📬 This week’s Future Frontiers explores emotional belief, coherence, and what media literacy must now become. 🔗 […]

📖 Facts don’t win by default. Not in an attention economy. Not when identity decides what's “true.” What then? 📬 This week’s Future Frontiers explores emotional belief, coherence, and what media literacy must now become. 🔗 […]

🫠 Some lies don’t ask to be believed. They just ask you to doubt everything else. 🥷 Strategic disinformation isn't sloppy, it’s surgical. It knows where belief becomes identity, and cuts there. 🔗 […]

⚠️ There’s a difference between not knowing the truth and not trusting that truth even exists. 🇷🇺 Russia’s narrative warfare aims at the second. Not to persuade, but to disorient. 💥 That’s cognitive insecurity. That’s the threat. 🔗 […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

This is how Russian information pollution works. Sowing confusion on legitimate and bogus fact checker to undermine the effort of a clean ecosystem. @researchbuzz https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/114755647871411364

🪖 When belief becomes defense, facts feel like threats. Emotionally defended belief is not ignorance—it is protection. This matters for anyone speaking truth into polarized spaces. Dive deeper in this week’s article 👉 […]

🏰 Belief is a fortress guarding our shared stories. In volatile times, losing that fortress means losing meaning. My new essay tracks how this happens—and why #medialiteracy must adapt. 🔗 […]

🛡️ Some beliefs act like emotional armor. When social safety feels uncertain, we cling harder. That’s how Russian disinformation undermines coherence—not persuasion, but destabilization. 📬 Read more on Future Frontiers […]

🧠 Why do facts bounce off minds? They collide with belief systems built as defensive structures—woven of identity, memory, emotion. 📖 Media literacy must evolve to understand belief not as error, but as defense. Read it here 👉 […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

For those following geopolitics, the notion that Trump represented 'peace' – that under his watch 'there were no wars' – was a deeply flawed premise even before recent events. This narrative, often amplified by anti-Western and anti-American factions across the political spectrum, from the […]

🦾 The stronger the emotion, the stronger the scaffolding. But it’s not a failure of logic, it’s logic applied in defence of identity. 📬 This week's Future Frontiers explores affective filtering, and why teaching emotional meta-awareness is essential to democratic resilience. 🔗 […]

🫠 Emotion doesn’t just influence political judgment, it structures it. 🫀 Outrage fast-tracks certainty. Anxiety narrows focus. Belonging filters out contradiction. A #MediaLiteracy model that ignores emotion is incomplete. 📬 This week’s article explores what […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

🪨 Resilience isn’t built through logic drills. It’s built through relationships, emotional intelligence, and shared narratives. ⚠️ If we treat media literacy as personal hygiene, we’ll miss the democratic stakes. ➡️ I'd like to hear your take on this. ⬅️

🏫 If media literacy is still taught as a solo skill — evaluate sources, verify facts, detect bias — we’re missing the real threat. Because the frontline is emotional, not informational. 👉 This week’s piece argues for a new model: collective media resilience. It’s not about being right. It’s […]

🪨 Media literacy ≠ individual critical thinking anymore. In polarized societies, information flows through identity, not logic. 👉 This week’s piece argues that we need to treat #MediaLiteracy as civic immunology: a democratic defense system for the emotional […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

We outsource memory. We outsource thinking. Now we outsource emotional anchoring. 👉 This isn’t innovation, it’s dependency at scale.

👾 If your assistant writes your text, curates your mood, and responds to your grief... 👱‍♀️ Where do you begin? 👩‍🦲 What’s left of unmediated thought or feeling? 🪢 […]

🪨 AI no longer helps us navigate the world. It constructs the world we experience. 🚀 The shift from tool to interface is quiet, convenient and political. 🪢 […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]